Chateau Smith
Also known as: Chateau Smith
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The Château de l'Anglais, also called Villa Smith, on the Cap de Nice: a house in an Indian-inspired style built by a retired English colonel and engineer who had worked in India, later raised and made a fashionable meeting place by Count Melchior Gurowski de Wezele (Nice tourist office and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur tourism pages, «Château de l'Anglais (Villa Smith)»; address now 29 avenue Jean-Lorrain). That the diary's «château Smith» is this house is an identification from the name (0.9).
In Marie's diary
- 1874-12-05 (027.0160, Nice): the doctor Lefèvre, «possesseur de la villa près du château Smith, que nous connaissons dès le premier jour de notre arrivée à Nice», is nicknamed «la France» by the family; Austria and Russia (the nicknames of other lodgers) are housed in his villa, from which Russia has been banished since Saturday.
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