Vence (in Occitan Of Provence: Vença according to the traditional standard or Vènço according to the Norme mistralienne) is a common French, located in the department of the the Alpes-Maritimes and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure. Its inhabitants is the Vençois .

Geography

Located between sea and mountains, with the feet of those, Vence belongs to what one calls the average country. These mountains limestones, " Baous" , give to the area a very broken relief. The climate is marked more there than on the littoral fringe, making the harder summers hotter and winters.

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History

The territory of the commune of Vence delivered indices of occupation going up to the oldest times. Certain caves of the baous seem to have been occupied with the Paléolithique and the Neolithic . Some of them seem to have been used of sheep-fold or shelters of shepherds during the Bronze Age and the age of Iron. They are also attended during antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern time.

One notes the existence of habitats strengthened (oppidums) on certain heights. The greatest number is occupied at the end of the age of Iron, the excavations on the site of Baou of the Blacks however delivered traces of occupation going up at the end of the Bronze Age and the first age of Iron. Baou of the White seems founded at the end of the age of Iron, but been the subject of an important reoccupying during late antiquity.

Before the conquest of the Alps by Auguste and the creation of the district of the Maritime Alps in the last quarter of Ier front S.J. - C., the territory of Vence is under the control of the tribe of the Nérusii whose name appears on the Trophée of the Alps with that of the other local tribes overcome by Auguste.

Starting from the change of era, Vence is founded and becomes chief town of city. The ancient remainders of the city of Vence are very badly known except for the inscriptions mainly put at the day in the basement of the center town and currently integrated into the masonry of the cathedral of Vence dating from XIe-XIIe S. in its current form.

At the 5th century Vence has one évêché under the reign of the Constance emperor. The first bishop whose existence is proven is Severus (419-442). According to the local tradition founded on eclesiastic sources, the Cathedral would have been built with the site of the temple of Vintius Mars whose existence is attested by an inscription.

By the play of the division of the Empire of Charlemagne, Vence and the Provence are attached to the Empire.

Until the Revolution, the City lived under the domination of the barons de Villeneuve and its bishops who were coseigneurs of Vence.

Among its many bishops there were a pope, Paul III, two academicians, Godeau and Surian and three saints, Prosper, Véran and Lambert. The Revolution drove out the last bishop, Mgr Pisani which refused to lend oath on the Constitution, and removed évêché.

Administration

|- | align=right| 1850 || 1851 ||Mr. Marcellin Maurel ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1851 || 1852 ||Mr. Jean-Louis Feraud ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1852 || 1861 ||Mr. Christophe-Clement Trastour ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1861 || 1871 ||Mr. Marcellin Maurel ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1871 || 1871 ||Mr. Henri-Louis Isnard ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1871 || 1900 ||Mr. Henri-Louis Isnard ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1900 || 1901 ||Mr. Anthony Mars ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1901 || 1915 ||Mr. Joseph Bougearel ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1915 || 1921 ||Mr. Antoine Vernin ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1921 || 1926 ||Mr. Henri Giraud ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1926 || 1941 ||Mr. Joseph Ricord ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1941 || 1944 ||Mr. Henri Einesy ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1944 || 1945 ||Mr. Marcel Benoit ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1945 || 1959 ||Mr. Emile Hugues ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1959 ||1983 ||Mr. Jean Maret ||align=" center" | || General adviser of the Canton of Vence |- | align=right| 1983 || 1989 ||Mr. Bernard Demichelis ||align=" center" | UDF - RPR || General adviser of the Canton of Vence |- | align=right| 1989 || March 2001||Mr. Christian Iacono ||align=" center" | UDF ||

Demography

Places and monuments

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