Enrico Sappia | |
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Born | April 17, 1833 Touët-de-l'Escarène, Alpes-Maritimes, France |
Died | September 29, 1909 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, author |
Parent(s) | 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).
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. With the fall of the Second French Empire 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, not Italian.
Death and legacy
Sappia died on September 29, 1909, in Nice, France. The Boulevard Henri Sappia in Nice was named after him.
Further reading
- Sappia, Henri (2006). Roullier-Laurens, Alain (ed.). Nice contemporaine. Nice: France Europe Edition. ISBN 9782848251561. OCLC 469948611.
- Mauviel, Maurice (2007). L'incroyable odyssée d'Henri Sappia : erudit niçois, conspirateur et agent secret sous le Second Empire, 1833-1906. Draguignan: Éditions Wallâda. ISBN 9782904201448. OCLC 175290146.
- Elso Simone Serpentini - Loris Di Giovanni, "Il prigioniero dimenticato. La detenzione di Enrico Sappia a Castel dell'Ovo (1850-1854)", Artemia Nova Editrice, 2021.
- Elso Simone Serpentini, "Enrico Sappia davanti all'Alta Corte di Blois. Il processo per l'attentato alla sicurezza dello Stato e alla vita dell'Imperatore (1870)", Artemia Nova Editrice, 2022.
- Elso Simone Serpentini, "Enrico Sappia, Nizza e i Vespri Nizzardi", Artemia Nova Editrice, 2024.
References
- ^ "Henri Sappia (1833-1906)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
- ^ Couzin, Thierry (2009). Passer par le XIXème siècle : les frontières, le capitalisme et l'Occident : aux origines européennes de l'unification italienne. Bruxelles: Peter Lang. p. 31. ISBN 9783034303187. OCLC 690792843.
- ^ Lafelice, Michel (1998). Barbets! : les résistances à la domination française dans le pays niçois (1792-1814). Nice: Serre éditeur. pp. 100–101. ISBN 9782864102915. OCLC 40617818.
- Blackwood, Robert J.; Tufi, Stefania (2015). The Linguistic Landscape of the Mediterranean : French and Italian coastal cities. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan. p. 50. ISBN 9780230290983. OCLC 909321066.
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