Word: completeness
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...century even the grandest hotels on the newly named Côte d'Azur were doing deals with the English entrepreneur. A century later 2 million travelers - half from outside France - descend on the Riviera as August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately charted by Robert Kanigel in High Season in Nice (Little, Brown; 309 pages), effectively mirrors the history of tourism. From small beginnings as a Greek fishing village and Roman frontier outpost, the town developed slowly until the late 18th century, when the continent...