Mr. Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, and President of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolis

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You will not be able to visit the Town Hall, but it deserves that you come, on the occasion of a walk, to compare your thumb to the one installed at the entrance to the Town Hall, in the main courtyard; it is one of the examples of Caesar's famous enlarged thumb*.

* César Baldaccini, known as César, famous French sculptor, 1921-1998 member of the "New Realists"

But if you manage to get in, you will discover that the current building occupied by the Nice City Hall has had a curious destiny. Built in the first half of the eighteenth century, it was first a seminary, then a barracks in 1791, and then a prison in 1793. Under the Empire, a gendarmerie was installed there. In 1815, at the time of the restoration, it housed the Saint Roch hospital (later transferred to its current location), then became a gendarmerie again until 1866.
From that date, and after major transformation work carried out by the city's architect François Aune, it became the City Hall of Nice. It was embellished by the architect Anselmi in 1928 under the mandate of Jean Médecin. We owe the "art-deco" style of ironwork, furniture, and lighting to the architect and decorator Clément Goyenèche. And it was in 1937 that the hall was adorned with four large paintings by Jules Henri Legrand.

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