In modern times, Mougins has been frequented and inhabited by many artists
and celebrities, including Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Francis
Picabia, Man Ray, Arman, Yves Klein, César Baldaccini, Paul Éluard, Yves Saint
Laurent, Christian Dior, Winston Churchill, Catherine Deneuve, Édith Piaf and
Jacques Brel, to name but a few. Pablo Picasso spent the last 12 years of his
life living in Mougins (1961–1973), where he died. He lived in a 'mas'
(farmhouse) at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, which is a small hilltop just beside the old
village of Mougins and next to the 12th-century chapel of the same name
