Identifier: romanceofmonacoi00mayn_0 (find matches)
Title: The romance of Monaco and its rulers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Mayne, Ethel Colburn, -1941
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Publisher: New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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n the Principality—and probably be buttoo eager to denounce it then. The sinisterroll of the suicides (two thousand since i860), thehorrors of the funeral arrangements, so vehementlyrecounted by de Jolans and Dumont, when thebodies are thrust into the ground, in an unplanedwooden box, to a grave which stands daily readydug, and which the digger cannot find twenty-fourhours later ; the thousand devices for plucking therich pigeon and putting to flight the too-observantone ; the chain of influences whereby every weak-ness, every vice, of poor humanity is turned tothe account of the Tables and their owners, LaSociete des Bains de Mer de Monte-Carlo—in Paris,observes Dumont, we have a word to designatethat type of man—these denunciations I shallleave to more apostolic voices. But for all mypotential readiness to contribute to their exchequer,I confess that I find it difficult to respect the Red-and-Black Prince and Princess, that Royal Pair wholive on roulette—as played by others.
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From a drawing by A. L. Collins. MONTE CARLO . CASINO AND GARDENS. INDEX A Acciajuoli, Niccolo, 101 Achilles, Silver bowl of, Phoenician description, 7Adelaide, widow of Lothair— Rescued and married by Otho of Germany, 50Adorno, House of, 119Adorno, Marquis, 35Adrian V, Pope, 65Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of, 259Aix, Louis d—Knight of Marseilles, 184, 185 Albert-Honore-Charles (Albert I):Accession, age at, etc., 336First stone of Monte Carlo laid by, 33iMarriages: First—Lady Mary VictoriaDouglas-Hamilton, 336—Flight of Lady Mary, dis-solution of marriage, 337Second—Alice, Duchesse deRichelieu, 337Oceanographic discoveries, 340Alencon, Count of, at Crecy, 88Alexander VI, Pope—Alliance withCharles VIII of France againstNaples, 139Alexandria, Vespasian proclaimed emperor at, 13Alfonso of Aragon, Attacks on Genoa, 128Alfonso II of Naples, 139, 142Amadeus VII of Savoy : Nice surrendered to, 118-9Support of John Grimaldi inseizure of Monaco, 119 Amadeus VIII of Savoy, Carma- gnolas o

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