CATHERINE SEGURANE MONUMENT
He is across the street, opposite the church. This local Joan of Arc became not only a nice heroine, but the patron of the city of Nice. In 1743, a powerful Turkish fleet came to besieged Nice. The city, then well protected behind its ramparts, was january by the artillery. The attackers attacked the castle. While they were grimpaient on their ladders at the storming of the high walls, a young lavandière named Catherine Nissart, who was said to be an amiable physics, armed only of his beater, struck the first of the Turks, took him to the étendard and rushed him to the bottom of the wall, thereby galvanizing the resistance of the castle. Today it symbolizes the spirit of resistance of the International, their taste of independence.
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