Download or read book French Riviera and Its Artists written by John Baxter and published by Museyon. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d'Azur that's sure to delight travelers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic lives of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world's most luxurious resort during its golden age. In 25 vivid chapters, Baxter introduces the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France—artist Henri Matisse, who lived in Nice for much of his life; F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Riviera hosts inspired his controversial Tender is the Night; Coco Chanel, who made the Saint-Tropez tan an international fashion statement; and many more. Along the way, Baxter takes readers where few people ever get to go: the alluring world of the perfume industry, into the cars and casinos of Monte Carlo, behind-the-scenes at 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 amid paradise.
Download or read book Adventure Guide to Provence and the C te D Azur written by Ferne Arfin and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the most detailed and informative guide to this fascinating region, from the Cte dAzur and its seaside towns of St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice and Antibes, to the mountainous regions of Vaucluse, the Lubron and Mont Ventoux. See the papal palaces and cathedrals massed inside Avignons intact 14th-century walls. Or visit Nmes, with its Amphitheater, built by the Romans, still the venue for festivals and spectacles. Experience the Camargue, paradise for birdwatchers the only place outside of Africa where pink flamingos nest by the tens of thousands. The wild Camargue horses here are lege.
Download or read book The French Riviera written by Ted Jones and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the fourteenth century. The Cote d'Azur has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers" is a reader's journey along this fabled coast, from Hyeres and St. Tropez in the west to the Italian border in the east, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way, from distinguished Nobel laureates to new authors who found their voices there. Ted Jones's encyclopaedic work covers them all: writers such as Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham, who spent much of their lives there; F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant, whose work it dominates; and the countless writers who simply lingered there, including Louisa M. Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Arnold Bennett, William Boyd, Bertholt Brecht, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, A. A.Milne, Vladimir Nabokov, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Tchekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf and W. B. Yeats - and many others.
Download or read book French Riviera Tourist Guide Guide Touristique Cote D Azur written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingual English/French Book (Livre bilingue anglais/fran�ais)French Riviera is one of the first modern resort areas. It began as a winter health resort at the end of the 18th century. With the arrival of the railway it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales. In the summer, it also played home to many members of the Rothschild family. In the first half of the 20th century, it was frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, and Aldous Huxley, as well as wealthy Americans and Europeans. After World War II, it became a popular tourist destination and convention site. Many celebrities, such as Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, have homes in the region. The French Riviera is a major yachting and cruising area with several marinas along its coast. According to the C�te d''Azur Economic Development Agency, each year the Riviera hosts 50% of the world''s superyacht fleet, with 90% of all superyachts visiting the region''s coast at least once in their lifetime.As a tourist centre it benefits from 300 days of sunshine per year, 115 kilometres (71 mi) of coastline and beaches, 18 golf courses, 14 ski resorts and 3,000 restaurants.Although the Riviera is famous for the glamour of St. Tropez, Monaco or the Cannes Film Festival, there are many other less well known attractions, such as the perched villages of Eze and Gourdon, the perfumeries of Grasse and the glass blowers of Biot, the potters in Vallauris. The Riviera has been the inspiration for many well-known artists such as Picasso and many of their works are on display in local museums and art galleries.For sponsorship opportunities please contact me.(La C�te d''Azur est l''un des premiers station baln�aire moderne. Il a commenc� comme une station thermale d''hiver � la fin du 18�me si�cle. Avec l''arriv�e du chemin de fer dans le milieu du 19e si�cle, il est devenu l''endroit aire de jeux et de vacances d''aristocrates britanniques, russes et autres, telles que la reine Victoria et le roi Edouard VII, quand il �tait prince de Galles. En �t�, il a aussi jou� � la maison � beaucoup de membres de la famille Rothschild. Dans la premi�re moiti� du 20e si�cle, il a �t� fr�quent� par des artistes et des �crivains, comme Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham et Aldous Huxley, ainsi que des riches Am�ricains et Europ�ens. Apr�s la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est devenu une destination touristique populaire et lieu du congr�s. De nombreuses c�l�brit�s, comme Elton John et Brigitte Bardot, ont des maisons dans la r�gion.La C�te d''Azur est une voile principale et une zone de croisi�re, avec plusieurs marinas le long de ses c�tes. Selon l''Agence de D�veloppement Economique de la C�te d''Azur, chaque ann�e, la C�te d''Azur accueille 50% de la flotte de superyacht du monde, avec 90% de tous les superyachts visitant la c�te au moins une fois dans leur vie.En tant que centre touristique il b�n�ficie de 300 jours de soleil par an, � 115 kilom�tres (71 miles) de c�tes et de plages, 18 parcours de golf, 14 stations de ski et 3.000 restaurants.Bien que la C�te d''Azur est c�l�bre pour le glamour de Saint-Tropez, Monaco ou le Festival de Cannes, il y a de nombreuses autres attractions moins bien connus, tels que les villages perch�s de Eze et Gourdon, les parfumeries de Grasse et les souffleurs de verre de Biot, les potiers de Vallauris. La C�te d''Azur a �t� l''inspiration pour de nombreux artistes bien connus tels que Picasso et beaucoup de leurs oeuvres sont expos�es dans les mus�es et galeries d''art.Pour les possibilit�s de parrainage veuillez me contacter.)
Download or read book Riviera written by Jim Ring and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Riviera has inspired countless novelists and artists, attracted as much by its visitors as by its location (Somerset Maugham called it 'a sunny place for shady people'). But for the majority of the English, the Riviera was made famous by rumour and report: it was the scene of the romance of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; and, post-war, became the vacation spot of Hollywood starlets. But the Côte d'Azur has a long history of attracting foreign celebrities and royalty, since the seventeenth century, when it was a stopping point on the route south for aristocratic Grand Tourists. Later, English and Scottish invalids, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, followed doctors' orders and holidayed on the Riviera for their health. Jim Ring explores these origins and the developments that took place on the coast - the impact of rail travel, of war, of celebrity and of the English. 'An entertaining survey . . . It is the ideal book to hide your smirk behind on the Promenade des Anglais as yet another roller-blading granny glides past in a leopard-sking thong.' Sunday Telegraph Jim Ring's Riviera corrals an array of vignettes of the Côte d'Azur's most famous habitués from the Romans to the Rolling Stones . . . a stylish and pleasingly gossipy overview of the region's fluctuating fortunes.' Time Out 'A highly readable history.' Guardian
Download or read book C te D Azur written by Mary Blume and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Riviera Tourist Guide Guide touristique C te d Azur written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by Nicolae Sfetcu. This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingual English/French Book (Livre bilingue anglais/français) French Riviera is one of the first modern resort areas. It began as a winter health resort at the end of the 18th century. With the arrival of the railway it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales. In the summer, it also played home to many members of the Rothschild family. In the first half of the 20th century, it was frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, and Aldous Huxley, as well as wealthy Americans and Europeans. After World War II, it became a popular tourist destination and convention site. Many celebrities, such as Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, have homes in the region. The French Riviera is a major yachting and cruising area with several marinas along its coast. According to the Côte d'Azur Economic Development Agency, each year the Riviera hosts 50% of the world's superyacht fleet, with 90% of all superyachts visiting the region's coast at least once in their lifetime. As a tourist centre it benefits from 300 days of sunshine per year, 115 kilometres (71 mi) of coastline and beaches, 18 golf courses, 14 ski resorts and 3,000 restaurants. Although the Riviera is famous for the glamour of St. Tropez, Monaco or the Cannes Film Festival, there are many other less well known attractions, such as the perched villages of Eze and Gourdon, the perfumeries of Grasse and the glass blowers of Biot, the potters in Vallauris. The Riviera has been the inspiration for many well-known artists such as Picasso and many of their works are on display in local museums and art galleries. For sponsorship opportunities please contact me. (La Côte d'Azur est l'un des premiers station balnéaire moderne. Il a commencé comme une station thermale d'hiver à la fin du 18ème siècle. Avec l'arrivée du chemin de fer dans le milieu du 19e siècle, il est devenu l'endroit aire de jeux et de vacances d'aristocrates britanniques, russes et autres, telles que la reine Victoria et le roi Edouard VII, quand il était prince de Galles. En été, il a aussi joué à la maison à beaucoup de membres de la famille Rothschild. Dans la première moitié du 20e siècle, il a été fréquenté par des artistes et des écrivains, comme Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham et Aldous Huxley, ainsi que des riches Américains et Européens. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est devenu une destination touristique populaire et lieu du congrès. De nombreuses célébrités, comme Elton John et Brigitte Bardot, ont des maisons dans la région. La Côte d'Azur est une voile principale et une zone de croisière, avec plusieurs marinas le long de ses côtes. Selon l'Agence de Développement Economique de la Côte d'Azur, chaque année, la Côte d'Azur accueille 50% de la flotte de superyacht du monde, avec 90% de tous les superyachts visitant la côte au moins une fois dans leur vie. En tant que centre touristique il bénéficie de 300 jours de soleil par an, à 115 kilomètres (71 miles) de côtes et de plages, 18 parcours de golf, 14 stations de ski et 3.000 restaurants. Bien que la Côte d'Azur est célèbre pour le glamour de Saint-Tropez, Monaco ou le Festival de Cannes, il y a de nombreuses autres attractions moins bien connus, tels que les villages perchés de Eze et Gourdon, les parfumeries de Grasse et les souffleurs de verre de Biot, les potiers de Vallauris. La Côte d'Azur a été l'inspiration pour de nombreux artistes bien connus tels que Picasso et beaucoup de leurs œuvres sont exposées dans les musées et galeries d'art. Pour les possibilités de parrainage veuillez me contacter.)
Download or read book C te D Azur written by Mary Blume and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Riviera, with its beaches, luxury villas and highstakes gambling, has been the world's favourite playground for more than a century, ever since a French poet gave this strip of land an indelible new name: the Cote d'Azur.
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Provence and the Cote D Azur written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the best of everything this alluring region has to offer with this essential, pocket-sized DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Provence & the CPte d'Azur with pull-out map. Top 10 lists showcase the best places to visit in and around the French Riviera, from the glamorous Casino de Monte Carlo to the historic Palais des Papes in Avignon. Ten easy-to-follow itineraries explore the region's most interesting areas - from the charming town of St-Tropez to the bustling port of Marseille - while reviews of the best restaurants, shops and hotels will help you plan your perfect trip."
Download or read book C te D Azur the French Riviera written by Pierre Borel and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book French Riviera written by Pneu Michelin (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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