Commune of Vence
Location
Longitude	07° 06' 51" E
Latitude	43° 43' 25" N
Administration
Country	France
Région	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Département	Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement	Grasse
Canton	Vence
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération de Nice-Côte d'Azur
Mayor	Pierre Marchou (2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	40 m–1,033 m (avg. 325 m)
Land area¹	39.230 km²
Population² (1999)	(Vençois) 16,982
- Density (1999)	432/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	06157/ 06140
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

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Miscellanea

It is famous as a home for artists, sculptors and painters.

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There is a small chapel, Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire (1948, completed in 1951), decorated with stained glass and other fittings by Henri Matisse. The Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire (Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary), often referred to as the Matisse Chapel or the Vence Chapel is a small chapel built for Dominican nuns. ... Photo of Henri Matisse taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1933. ...

Famous residents

• Maurice Boitel (b.1919), artist
• Henri Calet (1904–1956), writer
• Marc Chagall, artist
• Raoul Dufy, artist
• Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), writer
• Henri Matisse (1869-1954, artist
• Jacques (artist) and Gwen Raverat (artist and writer)

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Ecclesiastical history

The first known Bishop of Vence is Severus, bishop in 439 and perhaps as early as 419.

Among others are: St. Veranus, son of St. Eucherius, Archbishop of Lyon and a monk of Lérins, bishop before 451 and at least until 465; St. Lambert, first a Benedictine monk (died 1154); Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1505-11). Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, (died c. ... The archbishop of Lyon is the head of the Roman Catholic diocese of the French city of Lyon. ... The Isles of Lérins are two small islands near Cannes, France: The ÃŽle de Sainte-Marguerite and the ÃŽle de Saint-Honorat. ... Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, detail of a painting by Titian, 1546 Alessandro Cardinal Farnese (5 October 1520–2 March 1589) was an Italian cardinal and diplomat, the grandson of Pope Paul III (who also bore the name Alessandro Farnese), and the son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma who was...

Antoine Godeau, Bishop of Grasse, was named Bishop of Vence in 1638; the Holy See wished to unite the two dioceses. Meeting with opposition from the chapter and the clergy of Vence Godeau left Grasse in 1653, to remain Bishop of Vence, which see he held until 1672. Grasse (Provençal Occitan: Grassa in classical norm or Grasso in Mistralian norm) is a town and episcopal see in southeast France, it is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes département (of which it is a sous-préfecture), on the French Riviera. ...

The diocese of Nice now unites the three former Dioceses of Nice, Grasse and Vence. The diocese of Nice is a Roman Catholic territory in Franche, comprising the French Départment of Alpes-Maritimes. ...

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Education

Nursery schools

• École Maternelle lei bigaradie
• École Maternelle du Signadour
• École Maternelle de l'ouest

Primary schools

• École primaire du Suve
• École primaire Saint-Michel
• École primaire Toreille
• École primaire Chagall

Grammar school

• Collège La Sine

High school

• Lycée Henri Matisse.

Sources and external links

• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia.
• Street Map of Vence
• Informative English language site on the attractions of the town and region.
• French language Wikipedia has an article about Henri Calet.