This is unironically forbidden to teach in Frence, the French still actually believes the annexion referendums were regular
>Following the annexation of Nice to France in 1860 , part of the population chose to emigrate to the new Italian state [2] . Out of a total of 44,000 inhabitants, over 11,000 people emigrated to Italy. [3]
>The part of the Nice people who decided to stay underwent a Frenchization process - rejected in those years by the Nice people - which caused much resentment against the French. The Italian irredentists spoke out for this rejection through their leader, Giuseppe Garibaldi from Nice .
>In 1871 , with the proclamation of the Third Republic in France, in the general elections held on February 8, Giuseppe Garibaldi was elected to the National Assembly of Bordeaux, together with Luigi Piccon and Costantino Bergondi from Nice , with the specific mandate to have the Treaty repealed. of Turin in 1860 with which the County of Nice had been ceded to Napoleon III .
>In the political elections the pro-Italian lists had 26,534 votes out of 29,428 votes cast.
>In response, the French Republican government sent 10,000 soldiers to Nice. They shut down the pro-Italian newspaper Il Legge and imprisoned many Italian irredentists in Nice.
>Immediately the population of Nice reacted and rose from 8 to 10 February, but had the worst of the French troops. Many were imprisoned and wounded, according to the historian Giulio Vignoli. On February 13, 1871, Deputy Garibaldi was prevented from speaking before the National Assembly and resigned.
