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