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In 1543 the Turkish fleet and its French allies ordered by Barbarossa in their fight against Charles Quint, seize of the village. In 1706, Louis XIV gives a decisive blow to the city during the war of succession of Spain by ordering the destruction of the walls around the city and the castle in order to remove a possible point of resistance between Villefranche and Monaco. Traces of lines strengthened of dry stones also testify to the presence of french troops in the commune, allied this time, during the war of succession of Austria in the middle of the XVIIIth century. Between the french revolution and the end of the Ist empire the commune was annexed by France before returning under the House of Savoy. It is in 1860, after the unanimous vote of the Ezasques on the15th and 16th of April 1860 that the County of Nice including Eze became definitely french.

In spite of the hazards of his story, the life of the inhabitants, rhythmic by the seasons, moved slowly until the modern time. During a part of the Middle Ages, the commune had been managed by some lordly families whose names still echos in the streets: Riquier, Badat, Blacas... Before the Xth century, Eze, like Nice and a hundred of villages, belonged to only one family connected with the count de Provence. With the passing of years, donations, marriages and legacies stopped the divition of the communes.

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These lords, then the counts of Savoy regularly had clashes, sometimes violent, with the Community about the rights of middle or high justice. If the role of judges worried Ezasques little, it was not the same about the bailiff in charge of the low justice. This person chosen by the count took care of the application of the laws, noted the infringements, such as the non payment of "tasques" on the agricultural productions, the production of lime, or the non respect of the "bandites or bandita", these pastures reserved to owners of herds.

With the arrival in the village of prince William of Sweden and the musicians Balakovic and Barlow in the "années folles", everybody was charmed by the luminosity and the majesty of the place just like George Sand and Friedrich Nietzsche. The commune timidly opens his doors to the tourists. Eze sea side, served by the railway, develops safe from a pine forest. Artists and craftsmen settled in the village.

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HISTORY

The oldest traces of inhabitants on the commune of Eze go back to the neolithic era towards 2000 BC on the Mount Bastide. At the iron age, the celto-ligurians population who lived in this area erected many castellaras along the coast. These constructions were built with dry blocks of stone and were generally heighly located. The one on the Mount Bastide dominates at 567 m above the sea level and it is one of the best preserved of the region. The city and surroundings were occupied by the romans and the gallo-romans.

The name of Eze originated from either the port of Avisio located in the bay of Saint Laurent of Eze (east of the commune) mentioned by Antonin in his maritime route, or according to an oral legend that the phoenicians would have erected a temple in Eze in memory of the goddess Isis. With the end of the roman empire, the barbarians invasions followed, the inhabitants gathered in the old celto ligurians site. Eze acquired quickly its defensive character.

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 Soon after the establishment of the village, the population was victim of the moors who occupied the village during a certain period of the Xth century. The moors stayed for about 80 years not far from Eze, in a place called Fraxinet behind Saint Tropez. They were a source of insecurity and terror for the people of the Southern East. William of Provence and his allies put an end to their exaction around 973. In the Middle Ages, Eze extends from the sea to the right bank of the Paillon, with the priory of St. Laurent of Eze as well as the localities of La Trinité and Laghet which will be detached in 1818 per the decree of the Count of Savoy, Victor Emmanuel Ist. 

Until the end of WWI, Ezasques lived especially from their farms supplemented by the breeding of some goats, ewe. The cultivating "beds" were these parcels of land supported by walls in dry stone that required many efforts. The winter was essentially devoted to their upkeeping. On these steep hills, the donkeys were use for the labor and were very much appreciated. It was not rare to cross some donkeys charged with vegetables and fruits such as broad beans, chick-peas, marrow, nut, almonds... on the way to the village or a nearby market. Among the most valuable fruit trees you could find : the fig tree (the figuiera), the caroubier, the vine (the souca), the olive-tree and citrus fruits, citrons, orange trees or lemon trees. These trees were put under the protection of saints and in the County of Nice the people proclamed the Saint Grat about the deseace of the plants. His portrait can be found on the altar piece of the church, next to Saint Sebastian whom one requested to protect from the plague. Little by little, the food crops yielded the place to that of the flowers, the carnation in particular.