Rue Saint-François

Research Status: Basic Last Updated: 2025-07-06 Diary Coverage: Up to 1874-03-12

Identity

A street in Nice where Marie encounters Prince Tchetvertinski, Mlle de Galve, and M. Zveguinzoff riding horses.

Diary References

1874

• March 12: Marie sees the riding party: "je les ai rencontrés à la rue Saint-François et même dans notre ruelle" (I met them on rue Saint-François and even in our alley).

Context

• Street in Nice's old town
• Part of riding circuit for society members
• Close enough to Bashkirtseff residence ("notre ruelle")
• Named after Saint Francis

Rue Saint-François-de-Paule (RSR, 2026-10-22)

Marie names the rue Saint-François-de-Paule in full twice: the carnival illuminations of 23 February 1873, «la lumière électrique du Cours et de la rue Saint-François-de-Paule» (002.0078), and the battle of flowers of 7 February 1875, «Dès l'entrée de la rue Saint-François-de-Paule, la bataille commença» (029.0227); both paragraphs are tagged here. It is the old-town street on which the Nice opera house stands (Wikipedia, «Opéra de Nice»: rue Saint-François-de-Paule). Whether the bare «rue Saint-François» of 12 March 1874 (017) is the same street or the old-town rue Saint-François is not settled.

Research Notes

• Rue Saint-François-de-Paule likely reference
• Major street in Vieux Nice (Old Nice)
• Near Place Masséna and opera house