The romance of Monaco and its rulers . LOTTE DE GRAMONT . Photogravure Frontispiece PAGE MONACO: THE TOWN AND THE ROCK .... viii FACING PAGE OCTAVIUS .IO THEODORIC THE GREAT 22 CHARLES DANJOU, KING OF NAPLES .... 62 RAINIER GRIMALDI ....... 70 JANE THE FIRST, QUEEN OF NAPLES . . 92 BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN . . . 106 SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD . ... , . . Il8 PHILIP-MARY VISCONTI .122 CHARLES THE EIGHTH, KING OF FRANCE . . 132 BEATRICE DESTE 140 LOUIS THE TWELFTH, KING OF FRANCE . . 150 FRANCIS THE FIRST, KING OF FRANCE . . 160 MARY TUDOR, AND THE DUKE OF SUFFOLK . . 166LOUISE OF SAVOY, DUCHESSE DANGOULEME
The romance of Monaco and its rulers . LOTTE DE GRAMONT . Photogravure Frontispiece PAGE MONACO: THE TOWN AND THE ROCK .... viii FACING PAGE OCTAVIUS .IO THEODORIC THE GREAT 22 CHARLES DANJOU, KING OF NAPLES .... 62 RAINIER GRIMALDI ....... 70 JANE THE FIRST, QUEEN OF NAPLES . . 92 BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN . . . 106 SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD . ... , . . Il8 PHILIP-MARY VISCONTI .122 CHARLES THE EIGHTH, KING OF FRANCE . . 132 BEATRICE DESTE 140 LOUIS THE TWELFTH, KING OF FRANCE . . 150 FRANCIS THE FIRST, KING OF FRANCE . . 160 MARY TUDOR, AND THE DUKE OF SUFFOLK . . 166LOUISE OF SAVOY, DUCHESSE DANGOULEME . . 168CHARLES THE FIFTH, EMPEROR OF GERMANY . 180 LE DUC DE LAUZUN 2l8 ANTOINE DE GRAMONT . < . .238 MADAME GEOFFRIN . 260 LOUIS-JOSEPH DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDE . 290CHARLES ALBERT, KING OF SARDINIA . . 314 MONACO I THE PRINCES PALACE 320 MONTE CARLO CASINO FROM THE SEA . . .328 ALBERT, PRINCE OF MONACO 338 ALICE, PRINCESS OF MONACO 340 PAGE MONTE CARLO : CASINO AND GARDENS .... 342 vii. From a drawing Collins. MONACO: THE TOWN AND THE ROCK. CHAPTER I Hercules and the Phoenicians—The Phocaeans, warfare, and theolive-tree—Some Roman Emperors, and Monacos Patron-Saint. I CHAPTER I IN the minds of many who visit Monaco, thereis probably a hazy idea that it is very old,which is the appropriately hazy way of saying thatits history can be traced to very remote ages. Nograver mood belongs to the place, as Europe nowknows it ; people go there for fun, and most ofthem—despite the dark tales that each has heardand each loves to recount—come back with apleasant consciousness of having, in one way oranother, had what they went for. But the funover, and its memory still alive, some of thepilgrims will, it is hoped, lay friendly hands uponthis book. In it they will find their faith inMonacos antiquity confirmed—perhaps only toofully, and doubtless, as I conjecture, a little sur-prisingly. For of all the gods, decidedly Hercules wouldcome last into an imagination ocrom
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