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  • Location: French Riviera, Cannes

The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set

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1800s: What life is like with the rich kids on the French Riviera

  • ISBN: 978-0349139890
  • Genre: Fiction

What you need to know before your trail

The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l’Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960.

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Travel and have fun with the Riviera set

At the heart of this was the amazing Maxine Elliott, the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut, who built the beautiful art deco Château and brought together the likes of Noel Coward, the Aga Khan, the Windsors and two very saucy courtesans, Doris Castlerosse and Daisy Fellowes, who set out to be dangerous distractions to Winston Churchill as he worked on his journalism and biographies during his ‘wilderness years’ in the thirties.

After the War the story continued as the Château changed hands and Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood set, as well as launch his seduction of and eventual marriage to Rita Hayworth.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Riviera Set

Destination:  French Riviera  Author/guide:  Mary S. Lovell  Departure Time: 2000

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