ABSTRACT
On their way home from India on the eve of what would be a year of revolution, Napier and his family stopped for a time in Nice, which after 1814 was part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. There they spent the Christmas of 1847. George Napier was there, too. The English community of the city gave Charles a grand ball, and with his ‘great nose and eagle eyes, and immense beard and mustachios’ he was the star of the New Year’s receptions and the Governor’s conversazione (Figure 21.1). 1
