Cemetery
Cimetière du Grand Jas
Terraced hillside cemetery of marble tombs and statuary where the resort's British founders rest.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes follows Henry Brougham, a former Lord Chancellor of Britain, on a winter journey toward Italy in eighteen thirty-four with his sick daughter, and the closed border that stopped them short. It touches the English square and its Protestant graves, the writer Prosper Mérimée, and a royal visitor. Best heard standing in the English square.
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