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A shifted site-Ancient Nike-Cemenelium-History of Nice-Saracens at Cap Ferrat-Bertrand de Balb-The barony of Beuil-The Castle-Internecine strife-Truce-The marble cross-Catherine Ségurane-Destruction of the Castle-Annexation of Nice to France-Cathedral-Church of the Port-Masséna-Garibaldi-General Marceau-Rancher-Story of Collet-Cagnes-Painting by Carlone-Eze-David's painting-Puget Teniers-Touët-de-Beuil.
NICE is a town that has uneasily shifted its seat some three or four times. Whether it were directly settled from Phocœa or mediately from Marseilles, we do not know. But a Greek city it was, as its name implies, Nike, _Victory_, speaking of a fight there, engaged either against the Phœnicians, who resisted their settling into quarters already appropriated, or else against the native Ligurians.