New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-11
THE RIVIERA.
SCENES AND "REMINISCENCES AT CANNES.

tered the slope and about the foot of the hill OIL
which in MEDIEVAL times stood the CASTLE and after
ward the parish church.. The inhabitants were
chiefly fishermen and seafarng folks, with some
few distilers of essences and makers of olive oil,
who exported their wares to Marseilles and the
Italian markets in small coastng vessels. When
Brougham went out of office Lord Chancellor in
the autumn of 1884, and left England in search of
a mild climate for his beloved daughter and only
child, Eleonora-Louse, he was stopped on his way
from Bordeaux to Genoa, at the river Var. then the
frontier of the Kingdom Of Sardinia, and not per-
mitted to proceed further, prccautioD taken be-
cause of the cholera. which was then raging. The
time necessary for him to wait till permission could
be Obta ned from the authorities spent here,
and pleased was the ex-Chancellor with the
climate of Cannes that he decided to buy land and
build house. This determination he carried at
once into effect. Forty-eight years ago this very
month, Brougham bought a dozen acres of land, and
tho building of the house was begun in the ensuing
autumn. He and his daughter spent the winters OF
1886, 1887 aud 1888 at Cannes, aud the succeeding
year, when the Chateau EeOuOra- Louise was COM
pleted took up their residence in it, ana there she
soon after died. She was, perhaps, the only one
being that Broughsm really loved. and he never
ceased TO mourn her loss-ftia unca ct dtectssind.
Her death IS recorded on the walls OF the chateau
by her bereaved father, by the late Earl of Carlisle,
and IN the pathetic lines of Lord Wellesley so well
known to all lovers of elegant Latinity. Tney are
alsl to be seen on memorial tablet in the wall of
Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London.
Lord BrOugham's love for Cannes never changed
He spent every winter of the remainder of his life
here, and 10 was here, in the month OF May, 1868,
ut the age of ninety, that he died, in used by
him as his library and study. His monument in
the cemetery of Cannes Is a most imposing and sub
stan' al one, being massive granite cross weighing
many tons and with no other inscription than his
name with the date of birth and death. In
the principal square the people OF Cannes recently
erected with imposing ceremonies, handsome
full-ength marble statue Oi.Brougham, the Co umbus
of Cannes which, however candor compels me TO
admit Is more nike a Frenchman than the rugged
Scot that remember to have seen In London and
elsewhere Lord BrouQham was very popular with
the people here, and was always pleasant and gra-
cons in his intercourse with all classes even the
most humble. Two of his old French servants, who
showed me tho room IN which he died. we'll as
other apartments of the chat au said to that be
was a most kind aud cOnslderate MASTER The man.
sion is a large and spacious one, still containing
many of his books and pictures, among which OBJ
served portrait of his daughter aud one of himself
and his young nephew, son OF the present Lord
Brougham who usually, with bis family, occupies
the place A fine large picture was also pointed OUT
containing portraits OF the Late Archbishop of Cam
terbury aud his family, no occupied the chateau
in the winter of 1S70'7l. They are represented
seated in the garden, among the orange and palm
trees, which grow here with Oriental luxurance.
In the English church at CInnes which Gladstone
attended Yesterday | observed memorial tablet to
his old adversary, on which Is inscribed:
The Right Honorable Henry Lord Brougham
and Vaux died al his resi- ence here May z, 1865
aged 50 years. his tablet. placed near tine Teat
lac was wont to occupy commentaries his laying the
foundation zone of these fTansepts in 1865, and
records his regular attendance at the services OF
this church from Its erection Ia 1856. The follow
ing verse is taken from mis- favorie hymn:
lam tho Way the Truth tho Life,
No OF human race
But sucn as | conduct aud guide
Can see my Fathers race.
LB.W. John IA, o.
Adjoining Christ Church is the Villa Victoria, the
winter home of the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray,
whose first wife Miss Wadsworth, of New
York. and who has lately retired from the Eng lsh
diplomatic service Speaking to me of his well
known and popular Indian story of " he Prairie
Bird" Sir Charles who in early life spent year
among the Pawuees, said that in an interview Fem
imore Cooper. the novelist. remarked to him, al
lUdlpg to the publication of The Prairie Bird
" You have had the advantage Of me, for never
was among the Indiin'. All that know of them
is from reading, and from hearing my father speak
of them. He "a v great deal OF the red men when
no frs went to the western part of The state New
York.. about the close of the past century"
Sir Charles Murrays opposite neighbor. the Sar
dlnian Duke of Vallambrosa, whose son married
New York lady, has much the finest garden III
Cannes, and residence known as the Chateau des
4. /, tn.i ind nf
miniature Windsor Castle. In his superb garden
may now be seen hcliotrope and hundreds of roses
lemon. orange and dale palms, heavily laden with
Golden fruit; the acacia dea bata or mimOsa, the
ococia farnesana (thc cassia mentioned with myrrh
and alocs in the Bible), the banana the black and
yellow bamboo and the gorgeous Bouglinvlllea at
present mass of magnificent flowers. a. fine as lmet
with last month at Gibraltar or Algers the
comcIlia in great luxuriance and variety the Tao
sonia igmu, red passion Hover; the ADDITION
stratum grandihorum, and many other shrubs and
flowers not to be found in the Northern or MldGle
States except in hothouses or under cover; for, as
Kingsley puts il, Cannes is a place where " winter
has slipped out of the list of seasons" The distant
mountain crests at present covered with dazzling
snow that seems of the summer brightness OF
the foreground. To live among roses and orange
blossoms and gerlniums IN the mos delicious OF at
mosphcrcs, June flowers with May weather ~ per-
haps ~ good description rs can be ven OF the
place to which England's great Minister has come
70 enjoy a few weeks rest. The chateau in which
he is living is one of the finest in Cannes. 1t was
bult for a gentleman named Scott, who died before
il was completed The viewsfrom the yerandas are
very lovely, including both bays, the Collie Guam
and the Collie lie la Napoule and the garden extern
sion. con aiming fountains and tropical iuxurlance
of shrubs and flowers. The construction of the house.
il may bs remarked is such that there arc terraces
sheltered from the two prevailing winds the south
east and the northwest. 80
1t is not an everyday occurrence to fall IN Win
wcl-preseryed man of the world, who Is SO near |
century old that he wore beard long nfioic "iau-
s.o.,o rrna horn He WIS living when Washington |