Special Award Admiral Saint-Bon is a prize awarded to institutions that maintain and preserve the memory of the sacrifice of Savoy and Nice during the wars of Independence of 1848 and 1859 that allowed Italy to build a full-fledged state.
Why refer to Admiral Saint-Bon?
Admiral Saint-Bon is considered in Italy as the founder of the First Marine armored Italian. Chambery, born into a notable family ennobled in the eighteenth century, he made a brilliant career in the Piedmontese and Italian Navy. Belonging to the generation of 1860 who had to choose the option between France and Italy emerging, he preferred to choose loyalty to the Crown of Sardinia and became an inescapable figure in the Italian Navy, by noting the Combat (Lissa in 1866) but also as head of the Naval Academy in Genoa or Minister of the Navy. His Pensieri sulla Marina published in the 1860s when the Royal Navy was formed by adding des anciennes marines toscanes et napolitaines jettaient les bases de la Marine italienne dont elle en tire encore une partie de ses traditions.
Mais, malgré cette carrière exceptionnelle en Italie, dans un contexte où les relations franco-italiennes n'étaient pas au beau fixe, il demeura fidèle à la Savoie et à Chambéry, ville dans laquelle il revint régulièrement jusqu'à sa mort. Cette singularité fut d'autant plus marquée que toute sa famille avait choisi la France.
Au moment où beaucoup se posent des questions sur l'identité européenne, le destin de l'Amiral Saint-Bon est digne et riche d'enseignement. Mais Saint-Bon was not alone in this case, many of Savoy and Nice had a similar fate (see
Therefore, the Heritage Society of Savoy, now intends to emphasize more than ever the course of a generation that remained attached to links Aboriginal and values of openness that exceeded national conflicts.
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