Chapelle Saint-Pierre de Villefranche-sur-Mer

This guide to the Chapelle Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer follows a fire-gutted church that spent nearly a century as a fishermen's net shed, hosting their own tribunal for settling catch disputes instead of any mass. It turns to Jean Cocteau, who had been eyeing the building since the 1920s from a nearby hotel, and the day in 1956 when he finally asked the fishermen's permission to paint its walls. Stand close to the walls as you listen; the charcoal outlines beneath his lines are still visible.