The Roman Church Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Voyage (our lady of Good voyage) is located in Central Cannes – across the road from the Palace of festivals and Congress hall. Though not on the Croisette, and a quarter, so many tourists pass by. Meanwhile, the Church stands at the starting point of the brightest events of the European history of the early XIX century – the triumphal March of Napoleon to Paris, where he began his last takeoff, the famous "hundred days".

At this point in the XVI century to protect the city from the plague built a chapel. It was called the Notre-Dame-des-Sables (the virgin Sands – due to the fact that there were dunes), Notre-Dame-du-Bor-de-Mer (our lady of the Sea Shore), Notre-Dame de Bon-Port (our lady of Good Harbor). Nothing special around: fishermen's cabins at the dunes.

But here, under the walls of the village chapel, in the desert, set up camp, lit a fire and spent the night of 1 to 2 March 1815, Napoleon escaped from exile on Elba. With a detachment of a thousand odd people he landed in a nearby Cove Juan, barely passable, furnace road along the sea came to Cannes, and located here the bivouac. The researchers delineate the approximate boundaries of the camp from the North and East, where now lie the Rue d'antibes and Belgian. With great certainty assume that the tent of Napoleon stood on the present at number 15 on the street, Belgian. The same soldiers wrapped themselves in blankets and slept on the sand, fortified bread and roasted meat on the fire (products requisitioned for them at the local bakers and butchers, the then mayor Augustine Bullet – Cannes became the first city, who took the side of Napoleon without any resistance).

In the morning the Emperor took off and went to Paris via Grasse, Castellane, Sisteron, Grenoble, Lyon. So Cannes from little chapel began with the famous "Napoleon road" (now on her trail N 85).

All this says a memorial plaque on the wall of the Church Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Voyage, facing the street with a non-random name Bivouac Napoleon. Perhaps, the dedication of the Church of our lady of Good voyage was not a coincidence. (Usually it is because the local fishermen prayed here before leaving for the sea.)

The Church itself was built in 1879 on the draft Cannes architect Laurent Vyana on the site of the former chapel, when she could no longer accommodate the faithful. The structure of gray stone in the Romanesque style in fact is not complete: because of the lack of money has not been built relying on the project of the bell tower and two towers. But without them, the Church looks very impressive and harmonious. Inside you should pay attention to the impressive stained glass Windows in the transept, depicting the stoning of Saint Stephen and the massacre at Lérins monastery (Saracens kill monks). And the stained glass in the choir is modern work, they replaced those that were destroyed during the allied landings in August 1944.

A new Church has also been a place of important events: here in 1882 married count Arthur de Vogue, and in 1931 funeral Emmanuel d'orléans, Duke of Vendôme.