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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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SEASHORE NEAR SAVONA. 0/ UNIVERSITY THE n- utm ON THE RIVIERA DI PONENTE. 137 green table, and possibly console themselves with the saying that those who are unluckyat play are fortunate in love. One may pass some very delightful days in Monaco, but after a while one is glad toget away from it ; and one would be glad even if the next station were not Nice, thePearl of the Mediterranean as it is called. The aspect of this town is attractive in everydirection. The landscape in which it is placed is enchanting, and in Nice itself there isthe piquant contrast,—one might almost say conflict,—between the element of the real
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INTERIOR OF A PEASANTS COTTAGE IN BRIGA. Italian populace and that of French— civilization, which has entirely taken possession ofthe superficial part of all social intercourse. In addition to this there are the contrastsbetween the numerous other nationalities which crowd Nice from October to the middleof April, and which are sufficiently indicated by the names of many public buildings andstreets. Here is the German Protestant temple, and there the Russian Church; yonderis the Promenade des Anglais, and close by a shop which announces itself as a branch of agreat Parisian house. A magazine of childrens clothing bears the sign Aux grdcesenfautines and the poorest little stall where flowers are sold has written above itMaisonsptcialepour V exportation dc Jlcurs en France, Bclgique, et Anglcterrc Everywhere Parisianmanners and Parisian fashions dominate, and the Theatre where they are performing the Fille de Madame Angot sticks up on its playbills as the attraction par excellence Gran

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