. The Mediterranean : its storied cities and venerable ruins . ea-front in thisquarter, now known as the Promenade du Midi, has beenmodernized into a mere eastward prolongation of thePromenade des Anglais, of which more anon; but theremainder of the little triangular space between the CastleHill and the river-bed still consists of funny narrowItalian lanes, dark, dense, and dingy, from whose midstrises the odd and tile-covered dome of the cathedral of That was the whole of Nice as it lived andmoved till the beginning of this century; the real Niceof to-day, the Nice of the tourist
. The Mediterranean : its storied cities and venerable ruins . ea-front in thisquarter, now known as the Promenade du Midi, has beenmodernized into a mere eastward prolongation of thePromenade des Anglais, of which more anon; but theremainder of the little triangular space between the CastleHill and the river-bed still consists of funny narrowItalian lanes, dark, dense, and dingy, from whose midstrises the odd and tile-covered dome of the cathedral of That was the whole of Nice as it lived andmoved till the beginning of this century; the real Niceof to-day, the Nice of the tourist, the invalid, and thefashionable world, the Nice that we all visit or talk about,is a purely modern accretion of some half-dozen decades. This wonderful modern town, with its stately sea-front, its noble quays, its dainty white villas, its magnifi-cent hotels, and its C?ino, owes its existence entirely tothe vogue which the coast has acquired in our own timesas a health-resort for consumptives. As long ago asSmolletts time, the author of Roderick Random re-. PROMENADE DES ANGLAIS 133 marks complacently that an acquaintance, understand-ing I intended to winter in the South of France, stronglyrecommended the climate of Nice in Provence, whichindeed I had often heard extolled, as well he might havedone. But in those days visitors had to live in the narrowand dirty streets of the Italian town, whose picturesque-ness itself can hardly atone for their unwholesome air andtheir unsavory odors. It was not till the hard wintersof 1822-23-24 that a few kind-hearted English residents,anxious to find work for the starving poor, began the con-struction of a sea-road beyond the Paillon, which stillbears the name of the Promenade des Anglais. Nicemay well commemorate their deed to this day, for to themshe owes, as a watering-place her very existence. The western suburb, thus pushed beyond the bed ofthe boundary torrent, has gradually grown in wealth andprosperity till it now represents the ac
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