Quotes from Lita-Rose Betcherman

Alexander Dumas, pere, whose son created the most famous consumptive of all in La Dame aux Camelias, observed in 1847 that "frail pale women come to Nice to die," and he criticized the townsfolk for "living at the expense of the sick foreigners.

While the English were lording it at Cannes the Russians were the dominant foreigners at Nice.