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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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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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Riquier's
Mansion
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Eze,
the old Village
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Along the principal street, you'll
see an important house with a small court and a garden with some Sevillian
orange trees in front of the Planet Square. This is the House of Riquier,
also called "Riquier Castle". The house has the name of a lordly
family originally from Nice. The Riquier family lived there from the XIIth
century to the end of the XVth century. During the XVIIth and the XVIIIth
century, the house was occupied by notables, the Fighiera family, settled
in Eze during the Middle Ages. The inventories after death give us an
idea of the way of life of these inhabitants : furniture is described
as simple, the owners possessed numerous linen and hemp clothes and particularly
many barrels of wine and olive oil.
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Around 1920/23, this old house charmed
an American composer, Samuel Barlow (1892-1982). He forsakes his residence
in New York to live in Eze and devote himself to his house. He restores
the left part which fell into ruins and for the interiors asked a decorator,
Jan Juta who participated in the decoration of The Queen Mary. The large
room opening on the garden is furnished with sideboards, credence, consoles
of Gothic style, decorated with tapestries and wall paintings inspired
by medieval scenes. The wrought irons and the front door realised from
fragments of furniture of XVth and XVIth century give a general idea of
the decoration.
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In 1935, when he was not on tour, Barlow
created a comic opera "In the Moonlight" with a booklet of Sacha
Guitry and a symphonic concerto for magic lantern "Babar".
Samuel Barlow received his friends in his home in Eze for sumptuous receptions. |
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