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-> "Ma chère ville presque natale." — Romain Gary, on Nice ((Romain Gary, quoted in //Nice, Vie des Quartiers — Dubouchage//, Archives Nice Côte d'Azur, May–June 2018. https://archives.nicecotedazur.org/quartiers/nice-vie-des-quartiers-dubouchage/))
+> "Ma chère ville presque natale." — Romain Gary, on Nice((Romain Gary, quoted in //Nice, Vie des Quartiers — Dubouchage//, Archives Nice Côte d'Azur, May–June 2018. https://archives.nicecotedazur.org/quartiers/nice-vie-des-quartiers-dubouchage/))
 We live on one of the most historically layered streets in Nice — a boulevard that has housed a prefect's legacy, a Parisian industrialist's villa, the city's oldest library, a celebrated arts club, its first public art gallery, and the formative years of one of France's greatest novelists. Boulevard Dubouchage is not a famous street in the manner of the Promenade des Anglais, but its depth of history is remarkable, and our address at No. 4 bis places us at its southern, city-centre end — steps from Place Masséna, the Promenade du Paillon, and the cultural heart of Nice.
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 The street's origins are older than its current name. It was formerly called the rue then boulevard de l'Empeyrat or Empeirat — meaning "paved road" in Provençal — and it was during the great urban works of the 19th century that the municipality drove this major axis through the district, bordered by plane trees in the same manner as the quays of the Paillon and the Avenue de la Gare. Those plane trees remain one of the boulevard's defining physical features today: their canopy creates dappled shade along the pavement in summer and a bare, elegant skeleton in winter that reveals the facades behind them.
-The city's regulatory plan — the plan régulateur — stopped at what is now Boulevard Dubouchage, leaving a certain urban disorder to develop beyond it to the north. This is why the boulevard still functions, architecturally and socially, as a legible boundary: to the south, the ordered grids of the 19th-century New Town; to the north, a more organic and varied fabric of residential streets climbing toward Cimiez.
+The city's regulatory plan — the plan régulateur — stopped at what is now Boulevard Dubouchage, leaving a certain urban disorder to develop beyond it to the north. This is why the boulevard still functions, architecturally and socially, as a legible boundary: to the south, the ordered grids of the 19th-century New Town; to the north, a more organic and varied fabric of residential streets climbing toward Cimiez. In its own right, the neighborhood Cimiez has a rich history [[wp>Cimiez]].
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