Enrico Sappia (1833-1906) was a journalist and author.
Early life
Henri Sappia was born on April 17, 1833, in
Touët-de-l'Escarène
Touët-de-l'Escarène (, literally ''Touët of L'Escarène''; oc, Toet; it, Toetto di Scarena) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department
The fo ...
,
County of Nice,
Kingdom of Sardinia, (nowadays
Alpes-Maritimes
Alpes-Maritimes (; oc, Aups Maritims; it, Alpi Marittime, "Maritime Alps") is a department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the Italian border and Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it ...
, France).
Sappia was sentenced to a 15-year prison sentence on August 12, 1870, due to his opposition to Emperor
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
and his support for the republic.
With the fall of the
Second French Empire
The Second French Empire (; officially the French Empire, ), was the 18-year Empire, Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the French Second Republic, Second and the French Third Republic ...
on September 4, 1870, he never went to jail.
Career
Sappia was a journalist.
He founded ''Nice-historique'' in 1898.
Sappia co-founded the
Acadèmia Nissarda, a historical society in Nice, in 1904 with
Alexandre Baréty.
He stressed that Nice was culturally
Provençal
Provençal may refer to:
*Of Provence, a region of France
* Provençal dialect, a dialect of the Occitan language, spoken in the southeast of France
*''Provençal'', meaning the whole Occitan language
*Franco-Provençal language, a distinct Roman ...
, not Italian.
Death and legacy
Sappia died on September 29, 1909, in
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...
, France.
The Boulevard Henri Sappia in Nice was named after him.
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References
1833 births
1906 deaths
People from Nice
French journalists
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