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View of Monaco, c. 1890.
Scanned from A Photographic Trip Around the World, John W. Illiff & Co., Chicago, 1892. Copyright expired.
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MONACO. - This principality of Europe, French in language, but Italian in tradition, is located in the southern part of France, on the Mediterranian Sea. Its area is six square miles, and consists principally of the town of Monaco and its suburbs, which stand on a high promotory. Monaco has a fine palace, a new cathedral, a college, a noted casino, where gambling is licensed to pay with its profits the state expenses; it has also manufatories of spirits, fine pottery, bricks, perfumery, and objects of myth. The principality is now virtually under French control.
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