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than forty years, and saw it grow into one of

the most important places in the South of France. To this development he helped largely, always acting from a disinterested desire to do good.

The story of this useful life was certainly worth preserving. An even earlier arrival in Cannes was the late Lord Brougham. When he came there, driven by the existence of a cordon sanitaire (it was the cholera year of 1834), it was a small fishing village. The construction of the harbour was largely due to his influence with the French Government.