. The romance of Monaco and its rulers . is success at Monaco, toquell the rebellion. Mentone and Roccabruna,much astonished at this rebuff, at once gave inand took fresh oaths of allegiance to , honourable but clear-sighted, rememberingthe many Grimaldi defections, claimed from Lamberta renewed homage for the towns ; but though hethus underlined his distrust of the family, he plainlybore Lambert no ill-will, for he afterwards madehim Captain-General of the naval forces in theWestern Riviera. All these things had filled 1466 with excitement,and once they were settled, Lambert wa


. The romance of Monaco and its rulers . is success at Monaco, toquell the rebellion. Mentone and Roccabruna,much astonished at this rebuff, at once gave inand took fresh oaths of allegiance to , honourable but clear-sighted, rememberingthe many Grimaldi defections, claimed from Lamberta renewed homage for the towns ; but though hethus underlined his distrust of the family, he plainlybore Lambert no ill-will, for he afterwards madehim Captain-General of the naval forces in theWestern Riviera. All these things had filled 1466 with excitement,and once they were settled, Lambert was glad todevote himself to his little State. Liguria at lastknew some years of real tranquillity ; and by 1477,Lambert found that he had enough money savedto buy the five-sixths of Mentone which stillbelonged to his relatives, Honore and Luke. TheGrimaldi heritage was now whole and entire, exceptfor one-twelfth of Mentone, which was in the handsof the elder branch—and this also, in 1489,Lambert purchased for 5,000 golden florins. Thus. Anderson, Rome, Photo. p. 13a] From the bust in the National Museum, THE EIGHTH,King of France. The MiracIe^Chapel at Carnol^s 133 under him were re-united all the rights which theGrimaldis had acquired over Mentone in the timeof Charles I (1346). On the domain in Mentone acquired in 1477,Claudine had a small chapel built to the quickly became celebrated for miracles—socelebrated that Lambert begged Pope Sixtus IV tomake an inquiry into the matter. The miracleswere pronounced authentic, and the chapel atCarnoles soon became a great place of built a church and convent. The monkswere to have a special cult of the Virgin—LaMadonna del Carnoles} The chapel, Pembertontells us, is now a mere place for lumber andrubbish, and the house built against it is let towinter visitors to Mentone.^ Lambert was Councillor and Chamberlain toCharles III of Anjou, the prince who by his willleft Provence and his pr


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