For once, the majority and the opposition did not debate, but they consensually decided to attribute the naming of streets or sites of the city to certain personalities.
LAURA BORLA
It was inaugurated last month with great emotion. Laura-Borla Alley, named after this young victim of the July 14th attack, connects Impératrice Eugénie Boulevard to the Archet College, where the young girl was a student.
PANCHO GONZALES
A defender and captain when OGC Nice dominated French football in the 1950s, later a coach and manager, the Argentine spent more than half a century in “his” club. Having passed away last year, César “Pancho” Gonzales now has a street named after him, just a stone’s throw from the Allianz Riviera (between Jardinier Boulevard and Pierre-de-Coubertin Street).
RENÉ LORENZI
Connecting Roquebillière Street to Monsiegneur Daumas Street, Chanoine René Lorenzi Street honors the memory of this former resistance fighter, who served for a long time at the Saint-Roch parish.
JOSETTE ANELLI
Deceased at the very start of the year, this Nice figure of the Resistance was a maquisard tortured by the Gestapo. From 38 Turin Road, Josette-Anelli Street connects to Georges-Janvier Street.
CORETTA SCOTT KING
A civil rights and equality activist, Martin Luther King’s wife passed away in 2006. Coretta-Scott King Alley, a pedestrian walkway, is located in the Moulins district, between Méditerranée Avenue and Sœur Emmanuelle Alley.
OLYMPE DE GOUGES
A pioneer of French feminism, this writer notably signed the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen before being guillotined in 1793. Olympe-de-Gouges Alley connects Sœur Emmanuelle Alley to Paul Montel Boulevard.
ESTHER POGGIO
In the Resistance, she was called “The Marquise”. Born in Toulon, she was part of “the Ariane fusillés”, those 23 resistance fighters executed by the Nazis in the summer of 1944. In the neighborhood where she lost her life on the day of the Provence landings (August 15, 1944), Esther-Poggio Street replaces the one initially dedicated to Odette Rosenstock and Moussa Abadi, created last year.
ODETTE ROSENSTOCK AND MOUSSA ABADI
This is not a creation but a relocation. The public space located at the corner of Thiers Avenue and Amiral de Grasse Street, which until now did not have a name, will henceforth be called Espace Odette Rosenstock and Moussa Abadi, named after this couple of resistance fighters who created the Marcel Network, which saved 527 Jewish children between 1943 and 1945 in the Nice region.
ROSA PARKS
By refusing to give up her seat to a white person on the bus, Rosa Parks, a seamstress by trade, became an emblematic figure in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. She notably fought alongside Martin Luther King and now has her alley on the Nice cape, Nelson Mandela Garden.
LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR
Poet, writer, minister under De Gaulle before becoming the first president of the Republic of Senegal in 1960, Léopold Sédar Senghor lends his name to the children’s garden located near Aimé Césaire School, in the Saint-Roch district.
