Florence, April 2024: Jacopozzi returns to his birthplace
At the French Consulate in Florence, Véronique Tessier Huort Jacopozzi retraced her grandfather's life before the Institut Français, the Académie internationale de Médicis and the Italian press.
18 April 2024. At the French Consulate in Florence, Véronique Tessier Huort Jacopozzi presents the life of her grandfather Fernando Jacopozzi — born in that same city on 12 September 1877, and who left for Paris at twenty-three, never to return to Italy.
Participants
The conference brings together:
- Guillaume Rousson, Director of the Institut Français in Florence
- Luigi Del Fante, President of the Académie internationale de Médicis
- Armando Lostaglio, journalist and film critic
A symbolic homecoming
Fernand Jacopozzi left Florence in 1900 for the Paris Universal Exhibition. The city of his birth never entirely forgot him — but it is his granddaughter who, a hundred and twenty years later, gives him the tribute he deserves on the land of his origins.
His life: the 1900 Exhibition, the Faux Paris of the Great War, the Tour Eiffel Citroën of 1925, the department store illuminations, Notre-Dame, Rouen, Angkor. A Florentine who made Paris the City of Light.