Allée de la Liberté Charles de Gaulle
Plane-tree promenade with an eighteen-eighty cast-iron bandstand, flower stalls and an annual liberation ball.
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This guide to the Allée de la Liberté Charles de Gaulle in Cannes follows a ritual the town repeats every twenty-fourth of August, rooted in the summer of nineteen forty-four. It reaches back to the Victorian-era esplanade beneath the plane trees, the wooden market that once crowded it, and the cast-iron bandstand at its heart. Best heard standing beside the bandstand.
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