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From the bar of his family’s hotel, La Regence, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, Alexis Gigant keeps one eye on the reception of the hotel and one on the road outside. Situated just around the headland from Nice on the Basse Corniche, the low coastal road that connects the southern French city to Monaco, Gigant has a bird’s eye view of everything that happens in his neighbourhood. But it’s not the fast cars zipping past that catch his eye.
