Champ de Mars (Naples racecourse)

Overview

The racecourse of Naples, where Marie goes to the races in April 1877: «à partir du Toledo je ferme les yeux en faisant vœu de ne les ouvrir qu'au Champ de Mars» (070/1877-04-07; source footnote: «Naples' racecourse»).

Background

Campo di Marte is the plain below Capodichino, north of Naples, which Murat had levelled to hold a racecourse and military exercises in the French period, and where the Bourbon army assembled annually (Discover Campania, «Capodichino»; Wikipedia, «Campo Marte»). Whether racing was still held there in 1877 was not confirmed by the sources found; the diary's «Champ de Mars» is the Naples racecourse by its own footnote.

References in Diary

• 1877-04-07 (070)