The small, quiet community is today best known because Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis became part-time residents in , when Depp bought a acre estate, including an entire hameau hamlet of stone buildings built in Depp listed the estate for sale in In the 16th century, in this wide open area, a few agricultural, forestry and residential buildings began to appear close to sources of water which did not dry up during the long summer droughts.
These houses gradually became hamlets, initially, the descendants of the same family. One of these hamlets, Saint-Martin, the center of the current village, became the chief town of fact and law, the Commonwealth, which since the 16th century, has set itself on common locations. In Provence, in general, the limits of communes are those of former lordships. Prat-L'Estagnol, Valauri and Emponse. On the eve of the French Revolution , the inhabitants of these places, administratively attached to La Garde-Freinet , were remarkably structured and were "three masters in surgery and artisans of almost all species.
It is pegged at Sainte-Maxime and the hamlet of Revest that perpetuates the name of this stronghold deleted during the Revolution. During the 18th century, these people formed a self-governing community itself.
The crisis of emancipation behind it crystallized, under the officially Catholic state, around the thorny issue of the erection of a parish in St. This attempt failed. Historically, La Garde showed a fierce opposition to secession. An incident is significant climate in which the events took place.
What denied the people of Plan de la Tour. A bailiff was committed to signify the act. On his return, it was made known to him that "people rioted against the municipality of La Garde-Freinet and that representatives of the latter could not travel safely in Saint-Martin, to receive the oath of Abbot. After many difficulties, the commune was officially established on 26 May by a decision of the executive board of Var serving in Brignoles.
