{"id":684,"date":"2013-11-09T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/cimiez-my-setting-for-the-french-intelligence-bldg\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:49:18","slug":"cimiez-my-setting-for-the-french-intelligence-bldg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/cimiez-my-setting-for-the-french-intelligence-bldg\/","title":{"rendered":"Cimiez &#8211; My setting for the French Intelligence bldg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear All:<\/p>\n<p>Sorry about the delay in posting, but have had to deal with personal issues that have backed me up in everything. &nbsp;Such is life.<\/p>\n<p>In one chapter of the novel, Richard takes Gabriela to a building that is supposedly the French Intelligence Bldg. in the area. &nbsp;No such thing exists (at least, not that I know since I created it), but I did use this area of Nice because it fit perfectly into my plot.<\/p>\n<p>Cimiez is on a very hilly section of Nice, toward the north, and I had seen houses and other buildings there whose back yards almost touched the mountains&#8211;and that fit my plot perfectly. &nbsp;I am not going to write a spoiler for this, but for those interested (and those who&#8217;ve read my novel) you will find it in chapter 13.<\/p>\n<p>I have attached a map of Cimiez and an overview picture of the area.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-k7r7b56RhKo\/Un5tKt3GC-I\/AAAAAAAAAVk\/_F16j6LRoL4\/s1600\/nice-cimiez-map.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/nice-cimiez-map.jpg\" width=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-DEnWUPOL8mQ\/Un5tNKOwZNI\/AAAAAAAAAVs\/2Rsli7Ivtk0\/s1600\/nice-cimiez-overlook.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/nice-cimiez-overlook.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear All: Sorry about the delay in posting, but have had to deal with personal issues that have backed me up in everything. &nbsp;Such is life. In one chapter of the novel, Richard takes Gabriela to a building that is supposedly the French Intelligence Bldg. in the area. &nbsp;No such thing exists (at least, not &#8230; <a title=\"Cimiez &#8211; My setting for the French Intelligence bldg.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/cimiez-my-setting-for-the-french-intelligence-bldg\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cimiez &#8211; My setting for the French Intelligence bldg.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-pics","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}