A Book of The Riviera

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Baring-Gould Sabine. A Book of The Riviera

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. PROVENCE

CHAPTER II. LE GAI SABER

CHAPTER III. MARSEILLES

CHAPTER IV. AIX

CHAPTER V. TOULON

CHAPTER VI. HYÈRES

CHAPTER VII. LES MONTAGNES DES MAURES

CHAPTER VIII. S. RAPHAEL AND FRÉJUS

CHAPTER IX. DRAGUIGNAN

CHAPTER X. L’ESTÉREL

CHAPTER XI. GRASSE

CHAPTER XII. CANNES

CHAPTER XIII. NICE

CHAPTER XIV. MONACO

CHAPTER XV. MENTONE

CHAPTER XVI. BORDIGHERA

CHAPTER XVII. SAN REMO

CHAPTER XVIII. ALASSIO

CHAPTER XIX. SAVONA

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THIS little book has for its object to interest the many winter visitors to the Ligurian coast in the places that they see.

A consecutive history of Provence and Genoese Liguria was out of the question; it would be long and tedious. I have taken a few of the most prominent incidents in the history of the coast, and have given short biographies of interesting personages connected with it. The English visitor calls the entire coast – from Marseilles to Genoa – the Riviera; but the French distinguish their portion as the Côte d’Azur, and the Italians distinguish theirs as the Riviera di Ponente. I have not included the whole of this latter, so as not to make the book too bulky, but have stayed my pen at Savona.

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What Mr. Hammerton says of French towns applies especially to those of Provence: —

It was fear of the Moors and the pirates of the Mediterranean which drove the inhabitants of the sea-coast to build their towns on the rocks, high uplifted, walled about and dominated by towers.

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