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2015 John Baxter
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, except brief extracts for the purpose of review, and no part of this publication may be sold or hired without the express permission of the publisher.
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Baxter, John, 1939
French Riviera and its artists : art, literature, love, and life on the Cte dAzur / John Baxter.
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Summary: Discover the artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the worlds most desired destination during its golden age. In 21 vivid chapters, Baxter presents the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France--artist Henri Matisse, who was inspired by the Rivieras color and light; F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Riviera hosts inspired Tender Is the Night; Coco Chanel, whose Saint-Tropez tan became an international fashion trend; and many more. Baxter takes readers into the cars and casinos of Monte Carlo, to the Cannes Film Festival, to the villa where Picasso and Cocteau smoked opium, and to the hotel where Joseph Kennedy had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. Then maps and listings show travelers how these luminaries celebrated life and made art in paradise-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-940842-05-9 (paperback) -- ISBN 1-940842-05-0 (paperback)
1. Arts--France--Riviera. 2. Riviera (France)--Biography. I. Title.
NX549.A3R58345 2015
700.94494--dc23
2015004823
Published in the United States and Canada by:
Museyon Inc.
1177 Avenue of the Americas, 5 Fl.
New York, NY 10036
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ISBN 978-1-938450-79-2 (e-Pub)
978-1-938450-80-8 (e-PDF)
978-1-938450-81-5 (Mobi)
Cover: The beach in Golfe-Juan, on the Cte dAzur, August, 1948.
Pablo Picasso and Franoise Gilot. Photo by Robert Capa
When I realized that each morning I would see this light again, I could not believe my luck.
Henri Matisse, 1917
French Riviera and Its Artists
| Year | Event | Chapter |
| 1856 | The first casino in Monaco opens | 18 |
| 1862 | Express trains link Paris to the Riviera by PLM | 6 |
| 1866 | The district of Les Splugues in Monaco renamed Monte Carlo | 18 |
| 1869 | Founder of the newspaper Le Figaro, Hippolyte de Villemessant, builds Villa du Soleil (Htel du Cap) | 9 |
| 1870 | To escape conscription into Napoleon Ills army fighting the Prussians, Paul Czanne takes refuge in LEstaque | 1 |
| 1879 | The Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo opens | 18 |
| 1882 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir visits Czanne in LEstaque | 1 |
| 1882-1883 | Robert Louis Stevenson stays at the Chalet de Solitude in Hyres for sixteen months | 4 |
| 1887 | Guy de Maupassant docks in Menton during a boating holiday | 4 |
| 1889 | Hippolyte de Villemessant reopens the villa as a hotel named Htel du Cap | 9 |
| 1892 | Paul Signac buys a house in St. Tropez | 16 |
| 1895 | Auguste and Louis Lumire make their first films in and around La Ciotat, near Marseille | 20 |
| 1898 | Aubrey Beardsley dies at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in March | 4 |
| 1904 | Pierre Bonnards first visit to the Riviera | 11 |
| 1905 | Andr Derain paints a study of fishing boats in LEstaque | 1 |
| 1906-1907 | Georges Braque and Raoul Dufy share a studio in LEstaque | 1 |
| 1908 | Renoir moves to Les Collettes outside the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer | 2 |
| 1910 | Ballets Russes relocates to Monte Carlo | 8 |
| 1912 | A stroke leaves Renoir confined to a wheelchair | 2 |
| 1917 | Henri Matisse moves to Nice to avoid the German bombardment of Paris | 3 |
| 1919 | Renoir dies in Cagnes-sur-Mer on December 3 | 2 |
| 1919-1920 | Katherine Mansfield lives and works at Villa Isola Bella in Menton | 4 |
| 1921 | Serge Sandberg and Louis Nalpas start The Victorine Studios | 20 |
| 1921 | General Charles de Gaulle spends his honeymoon at Htel du Cap | 9 |
| 1921 | Frank Harris retires to Nice with his third wife, Nellie | 5 |
| 1922 | PLM relaunches its first-class-only service to the Cte dAzur | 6 |
| 1922- | Harris prints My Life and Loves at his own expense and sells it by mail | 5 |
| 1923 | The Murphys convince the Htel du Cap to stay open for the summer | 9 |
| 1923 | Coco Chanel steps ashore at Cannes from the Flying Cloud | 7 |
| 1924 | Alice Terry and Rex Ingram move to Nice | 20 |
| 1925 | Villa Noailles completed | 10 |
| 1926 | William Somerset Maugham buys Villa Mauresque at Cap Ferrat | 12 |
| 1926 | Pierre Bonnard buys Le Bosquet in Le Cannet | 11 |
| 1927 | Isadora Duncan dies in a car accident in Nice | 8 |
| 1928-1929 | Coco Chanel builds La Pausa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin | 7 |
| 1929 | D. H. Lawrence arrives with wife, Frieda, at the Htel Beau Rivage in Bandol | 4 |
| 1929 | Luis Buuel spends the holidays at Villa Noailles | 10 |
| 1929 | Monaco Grand Prix launches | 18 |
| 1930 | D. H. Lawrence dies on March 2 in Vence | 4 |
| 1931 | Doctors Gaston and Andr Durville establish a nudist village, Hliopolis, the first in Europe | 16 |
| 1931 | Frank Harris dies in Nice | 5 |
| 1932 | Matisse paints The Dance II, commissioned by Albert C. Barnes | 3 |
| 1934 | F. Scott Fitzgeralds Tender Is the Night is published | 9 |
| 1936 | Pablo Picasso rents a house in Mougins | 13 |
| 1939 | William Butler Yeats dies at the Htel Idal Sjour in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on January 28 | 4 |
| 1939 | Marlene Dietrich and Joseph Kennedy have an affair at Htel du Cap | 9 |
| 1939 | The first Cannes Film Festival closes after screening only one film | 21 |
| 1945 | Les Enfants du Paradis (The Children of Paradise) is released | 20 |
| 1946 | Picasso decorates an entire floor of the Chteau Grimaldi in Antibes | 13 |
| 1946 | Cannes Film Festival is revived | 21 |
| 1947 | Pierre Bonnard dies in Le Cannet on January 23 | 11 |
| 1947 | Matisse publishes Jazz, a limited-edition artists book | 3 |
| 1950 | Marc Chagall moves to Vence | 15 |
| 1950 | Jean Cocteau makes his first visit to Santo Sospir, Francine Weisweillers villa 14 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat | |
| 1951 | The Cannes Film Festival is reborn in more or less its present form | 21 |
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