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100	1		_aMiles, Jonathan, _d1952- _eauthor. _9116633
245	1	4	_aThe once upon a time world : _bthe dark and sparkling story of the French Riviera / _cJonathan Miles.
250			_aFirst Pegasus Books cloth edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bPegasus Books, Ltd., _c2023
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), map ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aJagged, tormented and tiny -- This 'wild and tremendous region of the globe' -- 'Bathing in sunshine', 1835-1860 -- Welcome to the world, 1860-90 -- Belle Époque, 1890-1914 -- Painting the warmth of the sun --- First World War, 1914-18 -- 'British-American Riviera colony', 1922-9 -- Losing paradise, 1930-9 -- Refugees and resistance, 1939-45 -- Glitz, 1945-60 -- Sunny but shady, 1960-90 -- White, concrete coast, 1990-2023 -- Notes --Bibliography --Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Index.
520			_a"Chronicling two-hundred years of glamor, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin. 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors - notably English, Russian and American - attracted the talented, rich and famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for everybody who was anybody. Often frivolous, it was also a potent cultural matrix that inspired the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Coco Chanel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, James Baldwin, Catherine Mansfield, Sartre and Stravinsky. In Once Upon a Time World, Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of French coast that lured the world to its shores. It is a wild and unforgettable tale that follows the Riviera's transformation from paradise and wilderness to a pollution imperiled concrete jungle."--Publisher's website.
651		0	_aRiviera (France) _xHistory.
651		0	_aRiviera (France) _xSocial life and customs.
650		0	_aVisitors, Foreign _zFrance _zRiviera _xHistory.
651		0	_aRiviera (France) _xIntellectual life.
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