Quai des États-Unis

This guide to the Quai des Etats-Unis in Nice opens with a riddle linking beggars, an English priest and a distant war to the ground underfoot, then traces the quay's roots to an 1820 charity project led by Reverend Lewis Way and Nice's English congregation, who paid the unemployed to lay a seaside footpath. It follows that path's growth into the Promenade des Anglais and the quay's original name as the fashionable Quai du Midi. It closes on the 1917 renaming that gave the quay its current name.