Cabris
A village on a rock where Saint-Exupéry’s mother lived and great writers stayed
The story
Before you is Cabris, a village on a rock about 550 meters above the sea. From the terrace where the castle stood you can see the Tanneron hills, the Lac de Saint-Cassien, the Gulf of La Napoule and the red Estérel mountains. The tourist office calls this one of the finest views on the French Riviera. The castle is mentioned around 1200, and in 1216 the village passed to the de Grasse family. In the middle of the fourteenth century plague emptied Cabris for about a hundred and fifty years. On March 1, 1496, Balthazar de Grasse settled it again: fifty-two families came, among them families from Menton and Sainte-Agnès. The last lady of the castle was the sister of Mirabeau, the famous orator of the French Revolution. During the Revolution a crowd pulled down a castle wall, and in 1794 the ruins were sold at auction and taken apart for stone. What remains are pieces of wall and a plaque with two dates: 997 and 1497. In the twentieth century writers fell in love with Cabris. André Gide was one of the first to come. Albert Camus, André Malraux and Jean-Paul Sartre visited too. From 1938 until her death, Marie de Saint-Exupéry, the mother of the author of The Little Prince, lived in Cabris.
Visiting
The village is open for walks at any time. Market on Fridays on Place de la Mairie. Town hall: 33 Rue Frédéric Mistral, +33 4 93 60 50 14. More on cabris.fr and paysdegrassetourisme.fr.
On the way
Photos
Sources
- Mairie de Cabris — Histoire de Cabris
- Office de Tourisme du Pays de Grasse — Cabris
- Wikipédia (FR) — Cabris
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