QUEEN VICTORIA AND NICE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13439, 10 June 1912, Page 6

QUEEN VICTORIA AND NICE.

The people of Nice hold Queen Victoria, in loving remembrance, not only because her frequent visits brought prosperity to the town, but also on accoiint of her friendly and amiable demeanour. She used* to stay &i ail hotel at Cimiez, on tho heights at the back of Nice, which is now eclipsed by a more palatial caravanserai- in the neighbourhood, and most English visitors go to sco the suite of rooms which she occupied in an annexe of-the hotel. She used to drive out to tho villages in the neighbourhood, and frequently stopped to talk with the peasants and their children, asking them about their iickls iinJ/iknyors, tlteii 1 cares and their pleasures,-the traditions and history of their country.

The unveiling of the monument to Queen Victoria on tho> famous Promenade dcs Anglais at Nico is said to

have been the most brilliant scone over j witnessed in a town famous for its spectacles. For tho first timo English seamen, and English naval ■ officers took part in a review on shore comifmnded \ by a French {^nonil, and passed by a | French Prime Minister and the British Ambassador, with the chiefs of the French- Navy and Army by their aide. "Have you noticed what beautiful men all these English sailors are?" a fair Nicoiso who heard to ask her husband by way of summing-up her impressions of tho review. Unfortunately, tho "Daily Telegraph" correspondent, who hoard tho question, did not catch the reply. It is; just possible.that in spite i of tho "Entente Cordinle," tho hus-! blind was less enthusiastic than the "belle madame."—-"Press."