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THE RIVIERA SET - MARY S LOVELL KARTONIERT (TB)

'I loved every word' - Sarra Manning  Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm
Med' - Rachel Johnson  Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who
lived  partied  bed-hopped and politicked at the Chteau 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. At the heart of this was the
amazing Maxine Elliott  the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut  who built the beautiful
art deco Chteau 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 Chteau 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.

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