To explain how St. Agnes ever came to exist it is necessary to resort to legend and to the very hackneyed subject of the princess who lost her way. The name of this particular royal lady was Agnes. She was unwisely making a tour in this barren and impossible country, when the usual terrific storm appeared with the usual result—the lady lost her way. She must have lost it badly, for she found herself near the summit of the crag upon which St. Agnes now stands. This is equivalent to a person climbing up to the dome of St. Paul’s in the hope of finding there a way that would lead to Fleet Street. The lady called upon her patron saint, St. Agnes, to guide her to shelter and was miraculously directed to a grotto near the spot where the town is now established. Hence the town and hence the name. INDEX A “A Winter at Mentone,” 271, 282 Agel, Mont, 13, 112, 194, 204, 209, 269 Alban, Mont, Fort on, 113 Alberti, S., “Istoria della citta de Sospello,” 287 Alps, view of, from La Grande Corniche, 13 Amadeus of Savoy, Eze sold to, 120 Amilheta de Baus, 125 “Annals,” by John Stowe, 121 Anne of Orleans pays homage to “Our Lady of Laghet,” 233 Antoin, Prince, builds fort at Monaco, 169 Arabs (_see_ Saracens) “Architecture of Provence,” by MacGibbon, 100 Arles, burial place of St. Trophime at, 51 Roman road to, 36, 194, 208, 279 Saracens at, 4 Augustus Cæsar at Monaco, 143, 144 monument at La Turbie, erected by, 194, 206, 214 _et seq._, 227, 260 “Aurelian Way” (_see_ Via Aureliana) Avignon, sold by Queen Jeanne to the Pope, 87 trial of Queen Jeanne at, 86 Aymes, Count (Prince of Narbonne), story of, 221, 222 B Balbo, Pierre, of Ventimiglia, purchase of Castillon by, 283 Baller, John, “Historical Particulars Relative to Southampton,” 121 Baoussé-Roussé, the, Mentone, Barma-Grande Cave at, 278 prehistoric caves at, 274 _et seq._ Barbarossa, Hariadan (Redbeard), attack on Eze by, 127, 128, 130, 131, 137 siege of Nice and, 28, 30, 127 Barbary pirates at Nice, 20 “Barbet,” history of term, 262 Barcelona, sacked by Carlo I, 166 Baring-Gould, S. “Riviera,” 34 “Bastard of Gorbio,” and betrayal of Eze, 129 attempt to betray La Turbie by, 133 capture and death of, 133 Bautucan, pre-historic camp of, 259 Beatrix of Provence, and Gorbio, 301 Beatrix of Savoy, marriage and children of, 126 story of, 80 _et seq._ Beaulieu, 112 Bellaudière, Bellaud de la, memorial tablet to, at Grasse, 75 Bellegarde, de, and Bellanda Tower, Nice, 23 Bellot, Jacques (of Grasse), carvings by, at Vence, 64 Beranger (IV), Raymond, and troubadours of Eze, 123, 126 story of, 80 _et seq._ war against Riviera towns by, 125 Beranger-Feraud, “Contes Populaires des Provençaux,” by, 80 Bevera River, 289 Blacas, troubadour of Eze, 122 _et seq._, 141 marriage of, 125 Blacasette, troubadour of Eze, story of, 123 _et seq._ “Black Death” at Vence, 56