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Updated: June 4, 2025
In travelling from Nice to Mentone you have to pass through some of the most lovely and enchanting scenery in the world. The tiny principality of Monaco is indeed a little Paradise; but, alas! Paradise after the fall, for does it not include that awful gaming pandemonium, Monte Carlo?
The prince of Monaco has a good number of them in his collection; and the rest are in private hands. The peasants, in digging, have likewise found many urns, lachrymatories, and sepulchral stones, with epitaphs, which are now dispersed among different convents and private houses.
They would build a Casino to outshine even the architectural miracles of Charles Garnier. Then would Havana put Cairo out of business and give the Prince of Monaco a run for his money. With the opening of every Monte Carlo season the newspapers used to tell of the colossal winnings of purely imaginary players.
On some bland morning like this when you view the breezy, sparkling sea, whereon the haze lies like the soft bloom on grapes, everything will appear dreamy and beautiful, while recollections of Nice, Monaco and Monte Carlo with their majestic shore lines rising from a sea of sapphire, are recalled.
Bob has taken a house at Monaco, and writes to me to bring the children to join him there!" "At Monaco?" "At Monaco! Yes, and I know that it is all my own fault. I might have done anything with him if I had known how. But what could you expect?
Disgraceful Behaviour of My Brother, the Abbe, I Relieve Him of His Mistress Departure from Genoa The Prince of Monaco My Niece Overcome Our Arrival at Antibes On the Tuesday in Holy Week I was just getting up, when Clairmont came to tell me that a priest who would not give his name wanted to speak to me.
M. de Monaco, who had obtained for himself the title of foreign prince by the marriage of his son with the Duchesse de Valentinois, daughter of M. le Grand, and who enjoyed, as it were, the sovereignty of a rock beyond whose narrow limits anybody might spit, so to speak, whilst standing in the middle soon found, and his son still more so, that they had bought the title very dearly.
Moreover, the tenure of the place is held by slender threads. What is thought of Monaco and its doings by those who have the fullest opportunity of studying them is shown by the fact that the Administration are pledged to refuse admission to the tables to any subject of the Prince of Monaco, or to any French subject of Nice or the department of the Maritime Alps.
The millions of francs expended on this sumptuous basilica were supplied by the proprietors of the Casino and the Prince of Monaco. Nothing can strike the stranger with a stronger sense of incongruity a church rising from the very heart of a Pandemonium! Monaco is a pretty, toy-like, Lilliputian kingdom compared with which the smallest German principality of former days was enormous.
M. de Monaco was no longer young; he was a very honest man, and had always passed for such; besides, he was almost blind in both eyes, and had a huge pointed belly, which absolutely excited fear, it jutted out so far!
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