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Office deTourisme
Place du Gl de Gaulle 06360 Eze France Tel : 33 (0) 4 93 41 26 00 Fax : 33 (0) 4 93 41 04 80 
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Château
de la Chèvre d'Or
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Eze,
The old Village
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According to
the legend, it is the chance or the destiny in the form of a goat
with gilded coat which guided the violinist Zalto
Balokovic (1895-1965) towards an housing estate he bought
and restored in 1923 and he called "The Golden Goat "
(la chèvre d'or in French).
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Balokovic
is a virtuoso. Eighteen years old, he obtains the first price
of violin in the Zagreb Academy and starts an European tour, in
Vienne, in Berlin. The war surprises him in Trieste in 1914 where
he lives until 1919. In 1926, he married Joyce Borden, niece of
Aldai Stevenson.
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The couple
shares his life between his residence in New York and Eze village
where he see an another musician Samuel
Barlow and the Prince William
of Sweden. In order not to be disturbed by the curious and
benefit from the tranquillity of the village, he sticks , according
to R. Schlouppe, a notice on his door with the following inscription
"Silence please a patient is resting"
In 1941, he militates in favour of several organisations of support for the Slavonic people and after the war he went back to Yugoslavia as a deputy of the Roosevelt committee for a round of 36 concerts. Balokovic sells the Golden Goat to Robert Wolf in 1953 who transforms it in a restaurant. Quickly, this establishment is frequented by personalities like the Prince Rainier of Monaco or Walt Disney who suggested the idea to create an hotel. |
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Sources :
http://perso.orange.fr/histoiredeze/
www.iumn.edu
Recherches personnelles de R. Schlouppe.
http://perso.orange.fr/histoiredeze/
www.iumn.edu
Recherches personnelles de R. Schlouppe.
