St. Michael the Archangel Church
Russian Orthodox church of 1894 with blue star-spangled domes and a crypt of émigré royals and a heroine.
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This guide to the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Cannes follows Hélène Vagliano, daughter of a Greek shipping family, who worked for Free French intelligence under the code name Veilleuse. It picks her up in the summer of nineteen forty-four, as the Allies neared the Riviera and a woman she had once helped walked into the story. Best heard at the foot of the steps, looking up at the blue domes.
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