Magagnosc — Wikipedia

Magagnosc is a district of the commune of Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes, cited in 1248 as Faubourg de Grasse. It is located east of the city, on the road to Vence and Nice, just 4 kilometers as the crow flies in the city center.

The district of Magagnosc in Grasse has a very old origin ^{[ first ]} . The ending -Oosc indicates a Ligurian original name ^{[ 2 ]} And in 1248, Magagnosc is already cited in acts like “Faubourg de Grasse” ^{[ 3 ]} .

The historian of Provence Garcin gives another somewhat fanciful origin in Magagnosc. According to him, the Jews driven by the Tiberius emperor in the year 15 of our era were released on the coast and would have taken refuge in the land, relatively well received by a poor population which was already there and that the Romans called Oxybians ^{[ 4 ]} . Garcin then designates Magalia which means huts in Latin as the radical of the name Magagnosc, which seems very unlikely. Frédéric Mistral himself attributes a possible Phoenician origin also from Magalh or Magan because the city seemed to serve as a warehouse sheltered from the coast pirates (in Arabic Makhzen become a store in French). It is interesting to note that historians, certainly not very accustomed to scientific work but listening to oral traditions, have issued similar hypotheses on a mixture of Jews and local populations long before the Christian era (Abbé Massa, Papon , Fabre, among others ^{[ 5 ]} ). It is attested by the Polybian historian that there was a fight on the coast towards Antibes or Cannes in 154 A.J.C. With the Romans following which the oxybians were forced to fall back to the mountain (history of the Alpes-Maritimes). It is possible that after these interbreedings, local traditions played around the word Ligure since flaw Means clever in Provençal and that another regional version makes Magagnosc a Jewish ghetto from the Latin “Magna Nox”, a big night. In addition, the census of the lights of XIV ^{It is} century mentions an important Jewish community, or Jewish, in the region ^{[ 6 ] , [ 7 ]} which was kept late despite the forced conversions ^{[ 8 ] , [ 9 ]} .

Magagnosc is perhaps at the origin of the Tannerie in Grasse. “Grasse is shopping from the outset” Note H.de Fontmichel ^{[ ten ]} And its first industry is that of skins. However, it is attested that the methods used (from the myrtle and the lentisque) were those of the Moors and not the Romans ^{[ 11 ]} . This would indicate influences from the West, during the Sarrassins’ invasions, perhaps Judeo-Mauresques (as in South Provence in general) received by the mixed community of craftsmen and merchants of Magagnosc, who would have gradually migrated Towards the Foux rock and water to industrialize the tannery.

Magagnosc is today a residential area of ​​Grasse with an annex town hall ^{[ twelfth ]}