Henri Sappia Explained
| Enrico Sappia |
| Birth Date: | April 17, 1833 |
| Birth Place: | Touët-de-l'Escarène, Alpes-Maritimes, France |
| Death Date: | September 29, 1909 |
| Death Place: | Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France |
| Occupation: | Journalist, author |
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| Parents: | Giuseppe Sappia
Marcellina Simon |
Enrico Sappia (1833-1906) was a journalist and author.
Early life
Henri Sappia was born on April 17, 1833, in Touët-de-l'Escarène, County of Nice, Kingdom of Sardinia, (nowadays Alpes-Maritimes, France).[1]
Sappia was sentenced to a 15-year prison sentence on August 12, 1870, due to his opposition to Emperor Napoleon III and his support for the republic.[2] With the fall of the Second French Empire on September 4, 1870, he never went to jail.[2]
Career
Sappia was a journalist.[1] He founded Nice-historique in 1898.[1] [3]
Sappia co-founded the Acadèmia Nissarda, a historical society in Nice, in 1904 with Alexandre Baréty.[3] [4] He stressed that Nice was culturally Provençal, not Italian.[3]
Death and legacy
Sappia died on September 29, 1909, in Nice, France.[1] The Boulevard Henri Sappia in Nice was named after him.[5]
Further reading
- Book: Sappia. Henri. Roullier-Laurens. Alain. Nice contemporaine. 2006. France Europe Edition. Nice. 9782848251561. 469948611.
- Book: Mauviel. Maurice. L'incroyable odyssée d'Henri Sappia : erudit niçois, conspirateur et agent secret sous le Second Empire, 1833-1906. 2007. Éditions Wallâda. Draguignan. 9782904201448. 175290146.
Notes and References
- Web site: Henri Sappia (1833-1906). Bibliothèque nationale de France. July 16, 2016.
- Book: Couzin. Thierry. Passer par le XIXème siècle : les frontières, le capitalisme et l'Occident : aux origines européennes de l'unification italienne. 2009. Peter Lang. Bruxelles. 9783034303187. 690792843. 31.
- Book: Lafelice. Michel. Barbets! : les résistances à la domination française dans le pays niçois (1792-1814). 1998. Serre éditeur. Nice. 9782864102915. 40617818. 100–101.
- Book: Blackwood. Robert J.. Tufi. Stefania. The Linguistic Landscape of the Mediterranean : French and Italian coastal cities. 2015. Palgrave MacMillan. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire. 9780230290983. 909321066. 50.
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