Follow the Footsteps of Queen Victoria on the Riviera.

Menton  Cannes  Grasse  Hyères  Nice

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The Queen as a good farmer in the Anglo-Boer War, sowing lead in order to reap gold. The lead was dum-dum bullets which split and exploded on contact. Dum-dum bullets had been banned by international treaty, but there were unsubstantiated reports that the British used them in the war.

French Postcard by Julio around 1900. Author's Collection.

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