James Henry Bennett

James Henry Bennett (1816–1891) was an English medical doctor who helped popularize the French Riviera as a winter holiday destination in the 19th century with his 1861 book Winter and Spring on the Shores of the Mediterranean. Bennett has been described by the Menton Tourist Board as the "Inventor of the Menton resort". and after working as a doctor for 25 years contracted tuberculosis. Bennett went to the small coastal village of Menton in the South of France, close to the Italian border in 1859, wanting to "...die in a quiet corner, like a wounded denizen of the forest". Bennett's health greatly improved, and he visited Italy the next year, but found the "unhygienic state of the large towns of that classical land undid the good previously obtained". and a monument in his honour was erected in Menton's Rue Partouneaux.

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