A few yards from the marble cross in Quai des Usa in Nice, there is the English-American Library and the principal English Church in Nice. Both can be entered from the inland parallel thoroughfare. In the burial ground (not now used) is the grave, marked by a large white marble cross, of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte (d. 1847), many years vicar of Brixham, Devon, and author of various hymns including that beginning ” Abide with inc.”
The present English cemetery is near the town’s great cemetery of Caucade, a mile westward.
Continuing along Avenue de la Victoire, one almost at once has on the right Rue de l’Hotel des Postes, leading to the Post Office in Place Wilson. A little farther, the Avenue crosses a very fine wide thoroughfare which on the right is Boulevard Dubouchage, containing the Public Library, and on the left is Boulevard Victor Hugo, the site of the American Church.
On the left, halfway along the next section of the Avenue is the large Church o Notre-Dame, the most modern of the parish churches of Nice. In Avenue Notre-Dame, facing the church, is the Salle Bréa, used for courses of lectures by University professors and for exhibitions of pictures. (There is a permanent exhibition of pictures and sculptures in the Muse Cheret in Avenue des Baumettes on the western side of the town.)
From the head of the Avenue de la Victoire there goes to the left the Avenue Thiers, the site of the principal Railway Station (S.N.C.F. line, Paris-Ventimille), and the Post Office, while the line of the Avenue de la Victoire is continued beyond the railway viaduct by the equally wide Avenue Malausséna, in which is the station of the Chemin de Fer de la Provence (Nice-Digne line).
At little more than 1 miles from the sea the Avenue ends at Place Gambetta, the site of a statue of that statesman and of one of the several daily morning markets. We suggest to visit if you stay in Nice a couple of days.
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