Its "ruler" was as poor as Job's turkey, but by no means as proud as Lucifer.
The bargain was struck.

The gambler smote the rock of Monte Carlo as with a wand of enchantment and a stream of plenty burst forth.

The mountain-side responded to the touch.

It chortled in its glee and blossomed as the rose.
II The region known as the Riviera comprises, as I have said, the whole land-circle of the Mediterranean Sea.

But, as generally written and understood, it stands for the shoreline between Marseilles and Genoa.
The two cities are connected by the Corniche Road, built by the First Napoleon, who learned the need of it when he made his Italian campaign, and the modern railway, the distance 260 miles, two-thirds of the way through France, the residue through Italy, and all of it surpassing fine.
The climate is very like that of Southern Florida.