Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-437), filmography (page 437), and index.
Summary:
Chronicling 200 years of the dark and glittering world of the French Riviera, which was founded in 1835, this story of luxury, excess, scandal and corruption, which inspired the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Coco Chanel, and many others, follows its transformation from paradise and wilderness to a pollution imperiled concrete jungle.
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