That same year, Fitzgerald arrived on the French Riviera, settling with his family in a now-legendary property Villa Saint-Louis (the now L'Hotel Belles Rives) on the Cap d’Antibes. The timing was no coincidence. As The Great Gatsby entered the world, Fitzgerald himself stepped into a new one, a…

From the 1850s, British aristocracy and European royalty flocked to the Côte d'Azur in search of winter sunshine, drawn by the region's therapeutic climate and laid-back lifestyle. What began as a seasonal escape soon evolved into a way of life, establishing the Côte d'Azur as one of the world's…

Each year in May, Cannes is transformed. The banners of major studios adorn the facades of the grand palace hotels, the terraces of the Martinez and the Carlton become open-air meeting rooms, and for eleven days, decisions involving hundreds of millions of dollars in global cinema are made beneath…