Parc du Mont Boron

This guide to Parc du Mont Boron in Nice starts among its pines with a question: what happened on this quiet hillside in January 1914 that drew a funeral crowd Paris hadn't seen since Victor Hugo died? It traces Paul Déroulède from stage poet, whose patriotic verses made him a household name after France's defeat by Prussia, to political agitator who founded a nationalist league and was tried and exiled for trying to incite a coup. Listen for how this forest itself is only a few generations old, replanted after centuries of bare slopes kept clear against Saracen raiders.