1 - Garibaldi: an Inhabitant of Nice between two cultures

Nice (Alpes-Maritimes, France): Joseph Garibaldi's family house, demolished in 1882.

By Hubert HEYRIES
Lecturer
University Paul-Valéry/Montpellier III

Garibaldi was born French in the city of Nice which had been annexed in 1792. He became Piedmontese in 1814 when the Inhabitants of Nice, exhausted by the conscriptions and the effects of the Continental System, returned with satisfaction to the realm of Piedmont - Sardinia after the first treaty of Paris. The painful recollections of the First Empire and the situation of the borders of Nice probably contributed to the fact that Giuseppe Garibaldi gave greater importance to the patriotic culture of Nice. The influence of his environment as well as that of his education also directed him towards the Italian culture.

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Joseph Garibaldi's baptismal certificate kept in Saint-Martin-Saint-Augustin church, in the Old Nice:
The year thousand eight hundred and seven, the day nineteen of July was baptized by me, undersigned Joseph Marie, born the fourth of the current month, son of the Sir Jean Dominique Garibaldi, merchant and Mad. Rose Raymondo, married in front of the church, in this branch. The Godfather was Sir Joseph Garibaldi, merchant, the Godmother Miss Julie Marie Garibaldi his sister, my parishioners, the godfather signed, the godmother declared not being able to sign. The father who was present signed. Mess. Félix Gustavin and Michel Gustavin witnesses signed.
Pie Papacin, vice-chancellor of Saint Martin

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