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M. F. Mansfield. Rambles on the Riviera
Rambles on the Riviera
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A PLEA FOR PROVENCE
CHAPTER II. THE PAYS D’ARLES
CHAPTER III. ST. RÉMY DE PROVENCE
CHAPTER IV. THE CRAU AND THE CAMARGUE
CHAPTER V. MARTIGUES: THE PROVENÇAL VENICE
CHAPTER VI. THE ÉTANG DE BERRE
CHAPTER VII. A SEASCAPE: FROM THE RHÔNE TO MARSEILLES
CHAPTER VIII. MARSEILLES—COSMOPOLIS
CHAPTER IX. A RAMBLE WITH DUMAS AND MONTE CRISTO
CHAPTER X. AIX-EN-PROVENCE AND ABOUT THERE
PART II. THE REAL RIVIERA
CHAPTER I. MARSEILLES TO TOULON
CHAPTER II. OVER CAP SICIÉ
CHAPTER III. THE REAL RIVIERA
CHAPTER IV. HYÈRES AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD
CHAPTER V. ST. TROPEZ AND ITS “GOLFE”
CHAPTER VI. FRÉJUS AND THE CORNICHE D’OR
CHAPTER VII. LA NAPOULE AND CANNES
CHAPTER VIII. ANTIBES AND THE GOLFE JOUAN
CHAPTER IX. GRASSE AND ITS ENVIRONS
CHAPTER X. NICE AND CIMIEZ
CHAPTER XI. VILLEFRANCHE AND THE FORTIFICATIONS
CHAPTER XII. EZE AND LA TURBIE
CHAPTER XIII. OLD MONACO AND NEW MONTE CARLO
CHAPTER XIV. MENTON AND THE FRONTIER
APPENDICES
I. THE PROVINCES OF FRANCE
II. THE ANCIENT PROVINCES OF FRANCE
III. GAZETTEER AND HOTEL LIST
IV. THE ROAD MAPS OF FRANCE
V. A TRAVEL TALK
VI. THE METRIC SYSTEM
VII
INDEX OF PLACES
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M. F. Mansfield
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Dumas himself, in that time-tried (but not time-worn) romance of “Monte Cristo,” rises to heights of topographical description and portrait delineations which he scarcely ever excelled.
Every one has read, and supposedly has at his finger-tips, the pages of this thrilling romance, but if he is journeying through Provence, let him read it all again, and he will find passages of a directness and truthfulness that have often been denied this author—by critics who have taken only an arbitrary and prejudiced view-point.
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