Villeneuve Loubet

Villeneuve-Loubet is a collective in the Alpes-Maritimes office in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur area in southeastern France. It lies between Cagnes-sur-Mer and Antibes, at the mouth of the stream Loup. It was made by the joining two old towns: the old town of Villeneuve inland and the town of Loubet on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Its occupants are called Villeneuvois. It is in the meantime a coastline resort and part of the technopole of Sophia Antipolis, numerous organizations of the tertiary division being introduced in the city.

Villeneuve-Loubet is the origin of the popular 19th century provencal gourmet expert, restaurateur, and culinary essayist Auguste Escoffier, the writer of the Guide Culinaire and the originator of French haute cooking. Villeneuve-Loubet was likewise, from 1920 onwards, the home of Marechal Philippe Petain 1856– 1951, the "Saint of Verdun" in World War I and head of condition of the Nazi-collaborationist Etat Francais, generally known as Vichy France, in World War II.

Marshall Philippe Petain obtained a house called L'Ermitage in Villeneuve-Loubet around 1920. Villeneuve-Loubet was likewise the site of a fight in World War II when it was freed by the First Special Service Force on August 26, 1944. The pinnacle of the chateau was harmed by a shell discharged by the US Navy, and many officers from the two sides were murdered or injured. In 2006, the groups of 14 Germans who were executed amid the battling were found in a mass grave close to the town by a neighborhood restorative understudy.