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The famous Italian composer and violinist lived in Nice the last years of his life and died here. (Nice was not yet French at the time, but a part of the Savoy dukedom.)
The earl of Cessole, president of the Senate of Nice was his friend. He asked him to come in the city in 1836. For a few times, the musician lived in the mansion of the earl, avenue de Sévigné, (now the bishop's palace).
Then he settled 23 rue du Gouvernement, which is now the Prefecture street.
He died on May the 27th, 1840 in this house.
A personnal intervention of the earl of Cessole was needed because the bishop of Nice wanted his body dumped in the Paillon river and had refused the corpse a christian burial to this "Musician of the devil".
His works.