tir-aux-pigeons

Updated: May 17, 2025

Below, beyond the railway line which is the one blemish to the picturesque scene, out upon the point in the sea the constant pop-pop showed that the tir-aux-pigeons was in progress; while up and down the terrace, enjoying the quiet silence of the warm winter sunshine with the blue hills of the Italian coast to the left, strolled a gay, irresponsible crowd the cosmopolitans of the world: politicians, financiers, merchants, princes, authors, and artists the crowd which puts off its morals as easily as it discards its fur coats and its silk hats, and which lives only for gaiety and without thought of the morrow.

William Le Queux - Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo