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- Once only a small sea port in the Alpes-
- Maritimes departmente of France,Cannes
- became popular in about 1834 when Lord
- Brougham and other well known people became
- attracted to this town. It became so popular
- and fashionable that a new town(called
- La Bocca)eventually grew up facing the
- Mediterranean sea.
- It is in this once insignificant town that
- the World's most famous and important film
- festival is held.Here the well-known and
- not so well-known Film Stars and starlets,
- Models and those hoping to become either,
- or both,gather each year to be seen and be
- photographed by the paparattsi,those
- freelance "Snappers" who seem to stop at
- nothing to get a picture.