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ONCE UPON A TIME WORLD - JONATHAN MILES KARTONI...

A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' In 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 intervening
years  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  Scott Fitzgerald 
Cole Porter  James Baldwin  Catherine Mansfield  the Rolling Stones  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 imperilled
concrete jungle.

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