Plascassier

Plascassier is a district of Grasse, a town known for its perfume factories village in the hinterland of the Côte d' Azur in the east of the department of Alpes- Maritimes twelve kilometers north of Cannes on the Mediterranean coast.

Geography

The Nice prefecture is about 29 km as the crow, the French capital Paris, about 677 km in a straight line from Plascassier away. The municipality of Grasse offers a large proportion of forest areas and extends over a wide area. There are large differences in height in Plascassier, ranging from under 100 to over 1000 meters. The average altitude is 333 meters.

Place-name research

Plascassier was originally called "Plan Escassier " and " Planscassier ", which translates as " muddy road " means ( in Provençal called " escassier " as much as " stilts " normally " échasse " in French).

Culture and sights

• The Church of Plascassier, built in 1644, was dedicated to St. Pancras. The village has its own parish, which founded in 1770 and the church was restored in 1882.
• The fountain, which was inaugurated on 10 May 1891, supplied with water from the aqueduct de Foulon.

Famous people with relationship to Plascassier

• Édith Piaf (1915-1963), French singer, died on 10 October 1963 at the age of 47 years in Plascassier from cirrhosis. Théo Sarapo brought, supported by close friends, her body the same night - secretly and disguised in an ambulance - in "their" city of Paris back. Your family doctor, who issued the death certificate for October 11, stated as a place of death Paris.

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• Place in Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur