Promenade des Anglais

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Promenade des Anglais

Starting in the second half of the 18th century, the English took to spending the winter in Nice, enjoying the panorama along the coast. In 1820 when a particularly harsh winter up north brought an influx of beggars to Nice, some of the English proposed a useful project for them: the construction of a walkway (chemin de promenade) along the sea. It was paid for by the Rev Lewis Way.^[2]
The city of Nice, intrigued by the prospect of a pleasant promenade, greatly increased the scope of the work. The Promenade was first called the Camin deis Anglés (the English Way) by the Niçois in their native dialect Nissart. After the annexation of Nice by France in 1860 it was rechristened La Promenade des Anglais.


Lewis Way (1772–1840) was an English barrister and churchman, noted for his Christian outreach to the Jewish people. He is not to be confused with his grandfather, also called Lewis Way, a director of the South Sea Company.
He was the second son of Benjamin Way (1740-1808) of Denham, Buckinghamshire. Benjamin Way was an MP and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Lewis Way graduated M.A. in 1796 from Merton College, Oxford, and in 1797 was called to the bar by the Society of the Inner Temple. He was ordained in 1817, and devoted to religious works part of a large legacy left him by a stranger, named John Way (1732-1804).^[1]
In 1801 he married Mary Drewe (1780-1848) youngest daughter of the Revd Herman Drewe of Grange, Devonshire.^[2]
While staying in Nice, France on his way to Lebanon he donated funds for the construction of the seaside Promenade des Anglais there.^[3] He later lived in Paris and founded the Anglican Marbeuf Chapel near the Champs-Élysées, where his preaching attracted a fashionable congregation.^[4]
Lewis Way's last years were spent in rural Warwickshire in the care of a private asylum at Barford. He was buried at All Saints' Church, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. His wife Mary died eight years later in Leamington Spa. They had nine children.

Mission to the Jewish people

Way, who belonged to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England, was active in the Church's 19th century outreach to Jewish people. He was a founding member of The Church's Ministry Among Jewish People (CMJ).

In 1817 Lewis Way obtained an audience with Tsar Alexander I of Russia who befriended him and shared his interest in the future of the Jewish people. Way wrote, “It was not an audience of a private man with an Emperor, but rather a most friendly exchange of views of a Christian with a fellow Christian.".^[5] The Tsar sent Way to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818) in what is now Aachen in Germany to obtain a commitment from the post-Napoleonic European heads of State to improve the lot of Europe's Jewish population. He succeeded in that mission.^[6]

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