The Quai des Etats-Unis (USA), which goes eastward from the Promenade des Anglais, was named in recognition of the part taken by the United States of America in the 1914-18 War.
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It is continued by the short Quai Rauba Capéu (rob hat), in allusion to the winds often encountered at the extremity of the cape. Near its farther end is the Port. At the meeting-point of the two principal portions of the sea-front is the mouth of the Paillon, a torrent of which the lower part has been covered and on which are now Place Masséna, on the eastern side of the Jardin Albert I, the Municipal Casino, and a long area behind the building, now the central gathering point of the buses and coaches, embraced between Boulevard Jean Jaurès and Avenue Felix Faure, leading to the very large modern Lycèe, just beyond which scores of women may be seen washing clothes in the stream.
In the rear of the Casino are a garden (Square Masséna) and a statue of the marshal.
The line of Boulevard Jean Jaurès is continued north- eastward by the Quai St. Sebastien and the Boulevard Risso. In the latter, No. 60 is the Natural History Museum. Boulevard Jean Jaurès runs along the northern side of the old town, which also can be entered opposite the eastern side of the Jardin Albert I and from the Quai des Etats-Unis.
Running inland from Place Massèna is the wide Avenue de la Victoire, one of the principal shopping centres.
On each side is a line of giant plane trees whose branches almost meet over the roadway. Similar trees line other important thoroughfares. Arcades are a striking feature in front of the Municipal Casino and adjacent buildings, and are seen also in the lower part of the Avenue de la Victoire.
From the foot of the avenue there goes westward (to the left) the narrow Rue Masséna, continued by the narrow, but very busy, Rue de France, the ancient highway leading towards the French frontier when that was the Var. In it stands a marble cross erected in 1568 to commemorate the presence in Nice (1538) of Pope Paul III, as peacemaker between Charles Quint and François I.
Opposite is a column erected in 1822 to commemorate visits of Pope Pius VII in 1809 and 1814.
A fine building beside the column is called the Palais o Marie Christine, in remembrance of the wife of King Charles Felix (of Sardinia, 1821-31), who inhabited it during her stay in Nice.
It was in this neighbourhood that, previous to the nineteenth century, visitors found accommodation in the scattered private houses. The Duke of York was here in 1764. The suburb grew rapidly, and in it some of the most distinguished persons in Europe took up residence.
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