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Once Upon a Time World - The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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Once Upon a Time World - The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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Loot Price R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
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In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the
manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much
of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an
exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard
from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted
a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere
handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors - notably
English, Russian and American - attracted the talented, rich and
famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries
of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the
dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for
everybody who was anybody. Often frivolous, it was also a potent
cultural matrix that inspired the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Coco
Chanel, Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, James Baldwin, Catherine
Mansfield, Sartre and Stravinsky. In Once Upon a Time World,
Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of
French coast that lured the world to its shores. It is a wild and
unforgettable tale that follows the Riviera's transformation from
paradise and wilderness to a pollution imperilled concrete jungle.
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