The French Riviera conjures up images of yachts on an azure blue
sea; the dark green of pines and swaying palms; sports cars on the
Corniche roads; the Monte Carlo casino and the Cannes film
festival. But as Julian Hale reveals in this fascinating volume,
there is another Riviera. Above Monaco towers a ruined reminder of
Roman power, the Emperor Augustus' Trophy of the Alps. Monuments to
Napoleon and Maginot Line forts testify to turbulent times, while
statues and gravestones recall the belle Epoque. Churches and
chapels along the coast and in the inland villages contain
pictorial and architectural treasures from the Brea family during
the Renaissance to Picasso and Matisse in the twentieth century. If
the Riviera has had its critics--Somerset Maugham famously called
it "a sunny place for shady people"--it remains the epitome of
glamour. Julian Hale reveals how a piece of rugged inaccessible
coastline was transformed into a byword for luxury and
hedonism--but always with a special beauty of its own.
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