Do you know what le vice Anglais – the English vice – really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty – whatever the French believe it to be. It's our refusal to admit to our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose. Terence Rattigan
After the annexation of Nice by France in 1860 it was rechristened La Promenade des Anglais, replacing the former Nissart name with its French translation. Source: Internet
A vestige of this survives in Sergei Prokofiev 's use of the clef for the cor anglais, as in his symphonies. Source: Internet
In 2016, a truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injury of 458 others. Source: Internet
The Hotel Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais was named after Henri Negresco (1868–1920) who had the palatial hotel constructed in 1912. Source: Internet
Siegfried requires one onstage cor anglais and one onstage horn. Source: Internet