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hop a bit 'tis true.

Then after dinner 4 seats (or a loge,rather) were secured in some unknown lucky manner and the Municipal Opera (built 60 yrs ago when Nice was Italian) gave us Faust from 8:30 to 12:30!!!!! It was trés bon, too and even after a hard day though the eyes did begin to blink closedly, the morning of sleep was the recompense, instead of another all day auto trip as was planned.

Monte Carlo is best of all. It surpasses Nice, Cannes, Menton and everyplace. [[underline]]  It [[/underline]] is the real paradise, these others must be content with close seconds.