New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-11
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years agop asked the lively old bachelor Of
ninety-fvel
The few thousand inhabitants of Cannes when
Lord Brougham discovered it have increased to
fifteen thousand, the stationary population rum
boring nine thousand and the migratory from six
TO seven. OF this number perhaps one-half find
their winter homes at the numerous hotels and
pensions the Others in cottages and chateaux con-
siderable number of which rented furnished for
the season, which extends from October to May.
The prices vary from two to twenty Thousand
francs, and do not differ very materially from New.
port prices. The m jority of cottagers are from
Great Britain. and include the Duke of Argyll and
many other prominent people, who prefer tho VIM
yer climate OF Cannes to that OF their own country.
rners are also Russians, Italians, Swiss Spaniards,
Dutch, Danish, French, Germans and Americans
among the regular winter residents Two Of tho
nnest villas here are owned ana occupied by AmerI-
can ladies' There are three English churches sub.
blsh0p or I'D altar; Scotch Presbyterian church,
two French Protestant, a German Lutheran and
several Catholic churches and chapels. IL may DO
tue Reformation the principal stronghold of Prot.
estantism IN France.
Since the advent of Lord Brougham in 1885,
peasant proprletOrs have disposed OF their lands at
nigh prices and have become renters Fishermen
and sailors are pow pOssessors of handsome pleas
known. That which twenty or Thirty years ago
Wa agricultural land or sand hills worth five hum
dred dollars an acre. ~ now build ng land, none of
which can be bought for less than i've thousand dol
lars per acre. In some instances double that sum
has been paid during the past year FOR eligible
sites. The cost of building is about one-half what
IL Is In New-York and the expense o. living is much
less than in that city or at Newport. The
opening of the railroad in 1868 all the way from
farls facli ated reaching Cannes, and brought
many tenants and purchasers of villas. and the
growth oil the place in public estimation as Il most
desirable winter MISUNDERSTANDING the most desr-
able of all places on the Riyleja-has
oDiinUed unchecked to the pres mt time.
The sc b real mil ness" OF the past two months
has been accompanied by that gentleness which the
English poet associated with II III reference toa
more Appropriate season than midwinter. Indeed,
il Is scarcely too much to say that VII lam Morrse
pretty phrase OF s1ff-eyed September wOud not
be msaDpled TO the month Of December, 1852, and
tnus lar in January, 1883 at the comfortable city
of Cannes. This letter Is written at an open win.
dow looking out upon garden full of palms and
other tropical trees and where orange blossoms are
Cling the air with fragrance and roses and geranl-
um- and heliOtrOpe are IN flower. Beyond Is the
blue Mediterranean. bright and calm, with
few whte-saiied ships and the Islands If st. Mar
guente and St. HOnOre III the distance. On the Tor
mer saw, the other day, the prison OF the Maa IN
the Iron Mask, lighted by window with most
appalling apparatus Of cross-bars, four rows
originally, of which three still remain.
ne mysterious prisoner Temnned III TINS
cell from Nav, 1857, 10 August, 1GJo, and was then
removed to the Bastlle &C Paris where he died In
OF NJ. de MarcIlel. Here, too Marshal Bazaine was
"A prisoner, aid after confinement OF seven months,
having permission TO walk on the rampalts OF inc
fort, succeeded in August, 1874 ~ making bis es-
cage, and is now residing In Madrid. Under tue
shadow of Fort st. Ma guerItc / hrst tasted that
exceedingly saVOry soup known as BoulllaDasse.
which has been amusingly celebrated by hack
cray. As Sydney Smith said OF something OF slni.
lar character: 1t Is among the last tnlngs tnat
JAMES GRANT WILSON.