This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...of Monaco (still outstanding as an independent principality) and her union with France. All along this superb and sunlit shore I felt a vague pathos in the sense of another land, bereft and uncomforted, still mourning for her children torn from her. But some distant day may yet see a statue in street or square ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...of Monaco (still outstanding as an independent principality) and her union with France. All along this superb and sunlit shore I felt a vague pathos in the sense of another land, bereft and uncomforted, still mourning for her children torn from her. But some distant day may yet see a statue in street or square of Nice, showing Italia welcoming back to her bosom the child, a generation ago sold from her, as the price of her liberation and unification. At Mentone we took a first class carriage for Nice, and were alone, until a very elegant dame of fifty years, of comfortable proportions, in mourning most correct and soignte entered. Every border was deep with crepe; perfectly fitting, long-armed gloves covered finely rounded hands and wrists; bonnet and veil were fashionable but not pronounced; a slight touch of jet here and there enlivened the gloom; a severely plain but expensive black leather portmonnaie hung from one wrist. We sat in our corners and she in hers, looking the picture of what a widow-of-the-world should be, dignified, correct, sure of herself. Presently, to our great surprise, Madame broke in upon our desultory talk with a remark of an informatory character in very fair English. " Oh, yes," she explained, " I know every bit of this line well, for I come every day to Monte Carlo. You will see a magnificent clematis on a villa here to the right, in a moment." The clematis seen and passed, Madame again alluded with some empressement to the fact that she lived in Mentone but came every day to Monte Carlo. " I play a little, of course, each day," she continued; " but only a little. I never lose." With some small encouragement on our part Madame continued, being of the kind, it seemed, who must have an audience. " I used to think...
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Good. Book Illustrated, 425 page, early 20th century book on France and its culture, people, famous places, etc. Decorative binding has light wear, inner hinges are cracked leaving the half title page detached, minor pencilling within.
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