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Roc Fleuri

house in Nice, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ135489933 ↗
Source-derived summary

Villa Roc Fleuri is an Art Deco house in the Mont Boron district of Nice, France. Locally it is known as the "Bond Villa", on account of its former owner having been Sean Connery.

The house was built in 1930.

In the 1970s and 1980s it was home to the actor Sean Connery and his wife, the artist Micheline Roquebrune, who was born in Nice.

The property has also been home to the French-Italian actress and producer Edwidge Fenech.

In 2025, it was listed for sale at Euro 23.5 million.

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“Roc Fleuri” enters the record as house in Nice, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fleuri, house and Nice can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fleuri, house and Nice.
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“Roc Fleuri” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fleuri, house and Nice provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q135489933. Authority coordinates are 43.689, 7.295. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roc Fleuri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.