It happened on the famous Promenade des Anglaisafter a firework display.
On Friday 147 buses took the group from their four or five-star hotels to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where they formed the words "Tiens' dream is Nice in the Cote d'Azur", in a record-breaking "longest human-made phrase".
"The people who live in the house come home at all hours, from late in the evening until far into the night; the lodger just above me, who in the daytime gives lessons on the trombone, comes home the latest and does not go to bed before he has taken a little midnight promenade with heavy steps and in iron heeled shoes.
" Then she became very curious on the matter, and one day, while on the promenade, she entered into conversation with the strange gentleman.
" He read again, "'The Intrigue on the Promenade; or, the Fast-Day.
