Riviera Towns
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gibbons, Herbert Adams, 1880-1934
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco
- Subject
- Riviera (France) -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 21996
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21996
- Release Date
- July 4, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.RIVIERA TOWNS
- 2.BY HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS — Illustrations By LESTER GEORGE HORNBY — NEW YORK ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY 1931 — To Helen and Margaret Who Indulge The Author and the Artist — ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.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 whose tower on the sea rose a hill crowned with the ruins of a chapel. Behind were the Maritime Alps." — RIVIERA TOWNS — CHAPTER I — GRASSE — "A grandfather omnibus, which dated from the Second Empire." — CHAPTER II — CAGNES — "The hill of Cagnes we could rave about." — CHAPTER III — SAINT-PAUL-DU-VAR — "The houses in the courts were stables downstairs." — CHAPTER IV — VILLENEUVE-LOUBET — The river was swirling around willows and poplars. — CHAPTER V — VENCE — "Down the broad road of red shale past meadows thick with violets." — CHAPTER VI — MENTON — CHAPTER VII — MONTE CARLO — CHAPTER VIII — VILLEFRANCHE — Medieval streets and buildings have almost disappeared. — CHAPTER IX — NICE — "The Old Town takes you far from the psychology of cosmopolitanism and the philosophy of hedonism." — CHAPTER X — ANTIBES — CHAPTER XI — CANNES — "La Napoule, above whose tower on the sea rose a hill crowned with the ruins of a chapel. Behind were the Maritime Alps." — CHAPTER XII — MOUGINS — CHAPTER XIII — FRÉJUS — CHAPTER XIV — SAINT-RAPHAEL — CHAPTER XV — THÉOULE
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