Villa Masséna, musée d'art et d'histoire

This guide to the Villa Masséna museum in Nice opens with a young officer counting stolen silver in a captured Italian church, and traces André Masséna's rise as one of Napoleon's most decorated, and most distrusted, marshals, forced from command twice over accusations of plunder. It follows the fortune he built through campaigns in Piedmont and Rome, then turns to the grandson who spent it, and the Danish architect brought in to design the villa now standing on this spot. Look for Napoleon carved in marble in the entrance hall, a tribute from the family his campaigns enriched.