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Title: Riviera Towns

Author: Herbert Adams Gibbons

Release Date: July 4, 2007 [eBook #21996]

Language: English

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RIVIERA TOWNS

by

HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS

Illustrations by Lester George Hornby

New York
Robert M. McBride & Company
1931

Copyright, 1920, by
Robert M. McBride & Co.

Copyright, 1917, 1918, 1920,
by Harper & Brothers

To

Helen and Margaret

Who Indulge

The Author and the Artist

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We wish to thank the editors of _Harper's
Magazine_ for allowing the republication
of articles and illustrations.

H. A. G.

L. G. H.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. GRASSE
II. CAGNES
III. SAINT-PAUL-DU-VAR
IV. VILLENEUVE-LOUBET
V. VENCE
VI. MENTON
VII. MONTE CARLO
VIII. VILLEFRANCHE
IX. NICE
X. ANTIBES
XI. CANNES
XII. MOUGINS
XIII. FREJUS
XIV. SAINT-RAPHAeEL
XV. THEOULE

ILLUSTRATIONS

"A grandfather omnibus, which dated from the Second Empire."

"The hill of Cagnes we could rave about."

"The houses in the courts were stables downstairs."

The river was swirling around willows and poplars.

"Down the broad road of red shale past meadows thick with violets."

Medieval streets and buildings have almost disappeared.

"The Old Town takes you far from the psychology of cosmopolitanism and
the philosophy of hedonism."

"La Napoule, above wh