3-021-291 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Pont St. Louis and ruins of Roman aqueduct, Mentone, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Rouch. 'The small town of Mentone, in the diminutive territory of Monaco, which was till lately an independent principality, but has been sold to the French empire by its hereditary Sovereign, is situated about fifteen miles from Nice, on the shore of the Gulf of Genoa. It stands at the head of a beautiful bay of the sea, overlooked by a range of mountains, 3000 ft. or 4000 ft. high, belonging to the Maritime Alps, which form a gigantic amphitheatre, five miles in width, partly filled with lower hills, pine-woods, and olive-groves'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.