Chapter Page 1. Early Days in the Riviera 1 2. The Corniche Road 8 3. Nice: The Promenade des Anglais 14 4. Nice: The Old Town 19 5. The Siege of Nice 29 6. Cimiez and St. Pons 36 7. How the Convent of St. Pons came to an 41 End 8. Vence, the Defender of the Faith 49 9. Vence, the Town 59 10. Grasse 67 11. A Prime Minister and Two Ladies of 80 Grasse 12. Cagnes and St. Paul du Var 97 13. Cap Ferrat and St. Hospice 104 14. The Story of Eze 118 15. The Troubadours of Eze 123 16. How Eze was Betrayed 127 17. The Town that Cannot Forget 135 18. The Harbour of Monaco 143 19. The Rock of Monaco 151 20. A Fateful Christmas Eve 161 21. Charles the Seaman 165 22. The Lucien Murder 170 23. How the Spaniards were got rid of 176 24. A Matter of Etiquette 181 25. The Monte Carlo of the Novelist 187 26. Monte Carlo 191 27. Some Diversions of Monte Carlo 195 28. An Old Roman Posting Town 206 29. The Tower of Victory 214 30. La Turbie of To-day 224 31. The Convent of Laghet 231 32. The City of Peter Pan 239 33. The Legend of Roquebrune 248 34. Some Memories of Roquebrune 252 35. Gallows Hill 259 36. Mentone 265 37. The First Visitors to the Riviera 273 38. Castillon 281 39. Sospel 286 40. Sospel and the Wild Boar 294 41. Two Queer Old Towns 297 Index 305 List of Illustrations