Henri Sappia was born on April 17, 1833, in Touët-de-l'Escarène, County of Nice, Kingdom of Sardinia, (nowadays Alpes-Maritimes, France).

[2] With the fall of the Second French Empire on September 4, 1870, he never went to jail.

[1][3] Sappia co-founded the Acadèmia Nissarda, a historical society in Nice, in 1904 with Alexandre Baréty.

[3][4] He stressed that Nice was culturally Provençal, not Italian.

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