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ah, the french riviera, a narrow stretch of land on the mediterranean between monaco and some tro. pay with a landscape spoiled by the sun and richly endowed with the memories of glamorous times. ah. for over 100 years, this coast has been synonymous with luxury, and decadence, and celebrities, and a very special lifestyle. ah, the co desert has long been the scene of drama and affairs that continue to shape its reputation. ah

ah ah, they return every year. familiar faces with even more familiar name ah, a rendezvous of the rich and the beautiful in front of a breath, taking the beautiful backdrop. ah, the coast owes its name to the french philosopher steph and leisure. hypnotized by the waters unique, luminous blue. he christened the then nameless coast, lock goat dazzle. at the end of the 19th century, ah,

and the beaches continued to bask in the glow of the history and uniqueness of this landscape. ah, the tween con, a niece at the southern tip of the cap donte lies a place that helped create the myth of the coat does do a mix of seduction and relaxation ah, the hotel to cup a done the walk. history has been made here for 150 years. whether artists, the wealthy or celebrities. this is the place where their paths and their stories cross aah! in 1964, a pair of german lovers sailed along the captain to the business magnate rudolph

august vica. and his young wife, maia, a sailing trip that changed her life. ah, the amana shanghai added, we hadn't been married long, and it wasn't the best vacation because i was constantly feeling on thank god, and then we will ha, here on the coast. and he said to me, look up this after done. that's a very nice hotel, just sad, but it's too expensive for us. august to own. it's just feel 2 toy young. mm. they didn't spend the night. instead, they bought the hotel 5 years later. they succumbed to the seductive blair of the coat does. it does. it isn't. and liam's good live, just

a way of life, a lifestyle gigs that suits a wonderful contrast. tomorrow night stifle, as most diff, undisciplined german deutsch. donna infant appa hugging. ah, a life full of joy and ease with many stunning locations. ah, a rock in the stream of fast moving trans, though. oh, tell do call. an annual sojourn here is on the calendar of every jet center and has been for decades with guests include artists, statesmen, and film stars. people have loved lived, created and dined here for 150 years. ah, the hotel is the big stage. a perfect place for leisure or

a discrete hideaway. ah yolanda blaze. excellence is the grand daughter of anne tall stella, the former owner of the hotel who provided a glamorous setting for life on the coat to do a man from a simple background. not home. it didn't so me that my grandfather came from a peasant family in north in italy, tv from a tiny village. he thinks children suffer very, very poll. but he wanted to become a hotel here. so he didn't feel like many italians at that time. done. yeah. he went to the coat desert to work or should you call the cap? donte was a rough place then nobody came here. but it was too windy. do human said to co voltaire, co. he that teresa, nevertheless, and tossed along still found work here at the grand hotel to come. a short time

later, he bought the place and turned it into a thriving luxury hotel circle more savagely, started with the russians. i mean, the whole family came to the co desert. it was as jordan, re that jewelry, that parties their way of life for it all started with them. when i come all sit. golden times dawned thanks to russian and also english aristocrats. it was the time of strict etiquette. the sea was only a backdrop, seen as dirty and unhealthy. the season began in october and ended in may. it's not a vacation. it's hibernation. the rich russian elite and particular swapped the cold and wet weather at home for the pleasant climate of the coat does. it didn't. it didn't amount to his own kids. they came, they were often that they met their things in big suitcases, didn't they?

with doors in the auto body when i was a little girl, but my father showed me the big suitcases inside was that it might be less wardrobe frog with oh, jewel tiara, lily charlie, marsha, it went on like that. the years you'd come back the next year or didn't have all your stuff. a altruism does i say, ah, while dark clouds gathered over the rest of europe, and as the 1st world war broke out in july 1914, antoine stella was hewing a huge salt water pool out of stone in extravagant luxury back then cools, were a rarity ah, the coat da 0 simply ignored the horrors of the 1st world war. but war did finally reached the splendid world of the french riviera. when american nurses came to recover at the hotel to cup,

ah, with the war over every one hoped the old glory would return. but the wealthy guests stayed away. as you, david la, i will show ish, the russian revolution had broken out. and they had all been killed. no one of them stay. i mixed. my father was left with the suitcases. i know they were very valuable at the diesel. he waited 10 years. i asked was required by law and after nobody came back while we donated them to the red cross blue shield which distributed the earnings as prefer sufficient other guests then began arriving young. rich americans airs and intellectuals discovering the blue coast for themselves. ah,

they were physically beautiful. they were sexually somewhat liberated. i think there were obviously a lot of affairs going on. they dressed in a flamboyant way that was the new. it was a new public, modern way of living. lots of skin free spirits. ah, one couple stands out in particular, gerald and sarah murphy, she a rich heiress. he an artist. they rented a room at the hotel to cup for a few months in the spring of 1923 and dared to do something unprecedented. they spent their days on the beach. ah, i think they were on mike's anything that had been seen in france before. they lived

a wonderful life. they had cocktails in the evenings. they had wonderful friends. they had fantastic clothes and didn't hesitate to dress up in beautiful outfits and sarah murphy. she would wear her woolly bathing suit. but she had a beautiful long strand of curls rolling down her back. and she would wear that out on the beach and sunday that the murphy's hosted imaginative costume parties with them, rudolph valentino picasso and coco chanel. ah, he designed the perfect clothes, beach pajamas. ah, this became such a fashion that there was a new title given to the whole area was p janet polis ah, because every one started wearing these pajama pants all over, and men and women and all over the area.

the murphys managed to keep the hotel do come open even after the season ended in may. their beach parties continued fostering in the 1st summer season on the coat de 0. ah. the french riviera has always been the scene of great romances and secret affairs. it offers discretion and tolerance. ah, romantic locations abound. luxurious yachts and sophisticated hotels. in the 1930 s a couple that was not supposed to exist, stayed at the hotel duke up but here they were undisturbed.

marsha, this is all i was 60 years old when i was told the cat see to the duke of wind, and mrs. wind than my father would pick them up at the train station. anesha. shall i go? ah, the english king had been coming to the coat as to with his divorced and remarried partner wallace simpson. here he could live out his affair with abandon. but pressure was mounting in england. the throne or love. the king had to decide with edward, made his choice for wallace and abdicated. when he told his lover, she angrily shouted, you god damn fool! the only option left for the 2 was to flee. wallace had divorced in the meantime. the former king and now twice divorced american,

married at the chateau ducandi in june 1937, with only a handful of guests. ah, no one from edward's family attended the english royal family distance to tell from the scandal. people then avoided the coat desert with its loose customs. edward and wallace held court at the chateau de la co way on the cap, don t. despite love marriage and a luxurious life, edward never really found happiness. he searched for a new role but found only a social stage. but he would grow to like that too. at the party's, people basked in the glamour, the once highest english aristocrat and his dazzling wife with

luxurious villas lined the coast. many with famous names, villa chaplin, or villa feruci, ross child. even their architects enjoyed the seductive charm of the place. in the summer of 1938, the american ambassador in london, joseph kennedy, spent the summer vacation with his wife and children at the hotel, duke cops roc pool. and it wasn't just the azure see that caught his eye. marlena dietrich's world famous lakes, were also draped across a deck chair with every one watching the film diva. and joseph kennedy retreat to one of the cabanas. ah, that was quite scandalous. and madeleine also,

i had an affair. i was simultaneous affair with a very famous american heiress, who was called jose carstairs, and joe carstairs was a wealthy woman. he had been brown the air riviera from several years. she was a speedboat champion, and she was also a very well known lesbian. although she never admitted it, and they had quite an affair with these are the kinds of affairs that made the quote desert into the place where anything goes ah, ind. joseph kennedy, maintain the friendship by securing molina detroit a ticket to the us to safety. yet another war was on the horizon and the care free life on the french riviera came to a standstill. most foreigners wanted to leave the country.

the coast remained largely untouched by the war. ah. after the 2nd world war, 350000 american soldiers came to the quote, the zoo for recreation. before returning home they took the experience of the life of leisure home with them. and the paradise in the south of france became even more famous in america. ah lou on teeth and its picturesque fortifications then came into focus. the city was home to an exceptional artist. ah,

ah pablo. picasso moved here in 1946. to his beloved see. he soaked up the air. the warmth and the light. the spaniards spent the war years in paris on the quote desert, his spirits reawakened. ah, assessor city just uphill again. that was right after the war g o c, the stay here would change a lot and because those work buskey partially because he was with a young woman. and then you can see that in his paintings with much lighter colors and with mediterranean themes, evix a bit mythological deanthony. to lucy. the woman at his side was the painter also was halo 40 years younger. the couple had 2 children, the fact that picasso still married to another woman didn't bother any one here,

with zillow at his side. and the freedoms of the quote as you are, because those creed of energy reached new heights. the grimaldi castle became the artist's studio directly above the sea guest, so they can, can kimmy bull cool noun. lemme casso was some one who loved nature and liked to express himself physically. he could walk around topless and sandals. so and he liked that a lot of shows cuz he was far away from a reason life. and from everything that surrounds a famous artist from the ard dealers and all the peoples who swarmed around him. there we'll have a lacy diesel now. picasso enjoyed the simple life and discovered ceramics. it became part of his art. ah, he wasn't through z. asked dick about everything, pottery or bull fighting. and every one wasn't those. he asked about him. everywhere he goes,

he was in the spotlight ah! the car so loved the grand entrance and the festivals on the quote. the zoo provided him with a state. the painter became a star and the most famous artist in the world with glamour, art, and is want of eva. we're part of the spirit of the french riviera. ah, every one who was any one came here, the beautiful, the rich, the famous. and of course, the movie stars ah, there a 2nd home was called can ah, soon in

1946, a c plane landed off the coast. a clever p r. start by the american film industry. ah, on board. the cram de la cram of hollywood. the studios sent their most beautiful ambassadors to the south of france to celebrate an event with an all star lineup. the start of the 1st can film festival. not far away is the hotel to cup the temporary home of the top echelon of american cinema. life here was not only as free and casual last in sunny california business was

also possible. but conquest of europeans cinema began ah journalist. oh, he shows yvonne has known the festival for decades in front and behind the scenes and gown sees you listed to julia v, steve our divinity. 1946. there was still the festival in venice, which was associated with fascism with films by hitler and mussolini. and so the can festival was to be on the side of liberal democracy behind a film festival, against fascist cinema, against the cinema of dictate is that you or somebody that he's also did lagging. he every one present had lived through the terrible war. again, they came and wanted to have a good time. tape was the 1st big party in europe, or maybe even the whoa, it's steve as the the poem yet gone fit. oh no ma'am. oh no. the new festival

picked up speed tan became number one just a few years and it's red carpet was the most glamorous. sophia laurenne arrived with the film to women for which she later won an oscar and launched the global career of her film. pardon jump, i've been on do harry grant returned to the scene of his film to catch a thief? ah, even opera dba maria collis was attracted by the state in the coat, the sewer. anyone at the top came to can, ah, as did any one aspiring to be, or me snyder became a celebrated star in france with media attention alongside heart throb. i land along ah

gan, offered the most important stage. even liz taylor of goddess herself, descended from the mount olympus of hollywood. ah, countless classics of billing history, premiered here, ah, even star directors like alfred hitchcock presented their works personally. and with plenty of artificial buzz. the birds of film that still sets standards to day appearance was everything. ah, grace kelly had just won an oscar and was at the peak of her career. the trip to the quote to 0 changed her life forever. and was the beginning of the love story of

the century. ah, the principality of monaco was a former pirate's neck, rested from the narrow strip of lamp for the western alps, ate the sea. and the micro state is just too square kilometers. but one of the richest in the world, those who buy expensive real estate here, no longer pay income tax a paradise for those who want to keep to themselves. however, the principality was not always so rich. so in 1949 range took over a sort of a post war. monaco, europe was recovering. he was very young. he was 26 years old and he needed to find money to, to get the country back on its feet. mm hm.

salvation came in the form of the rich greek ship owner, aristotle onassis in the early 19 fifties, he began to invest in s b. m, the company that ruled over real estate, luxury hotels, and the famous monaco casino analysis really did have a master plan. i think that his idea for develop a monica was very much to his profit. he started to buy shares of s b m through his panama based companies and ended up with 52 percent ownership of the company. which meant he had the rule of monica, even though prince rainy was the sovereign onassis became the most powerful man in the tiny state. and he wanted to increase the value of his investment. he welcomed the most influential personalities of the time on his luxury yacht. christina, oh,

the ship became one of the most exclusive meeting places on the mediterranean coast . ah, it was an incredible and incredible yacht. and he added such detail, he had his bar, which people talk about now with the famous bar stools being made of whale for skin . and he would often joke with his female guests that they were sitting on the world's largest penis, typical analysis. but what he did create there was a place that he could bring john f. kennedy and someone like winston churchill to meet for the 1st time together on his yacht. it was very controlled. he had all types of celebrities. and he won from gretta garbo to frank sinatra. they were all part of this very elite, glamorous, and wealthy, wealthy world. ah bonuses pursued one goal, making the principality a gold mine. and he had a brilliant idea. ah,

she realised that the only way monica was going to make money and become profitable was if rainy, married somebody that brought a little bit of glamour and wealth to this part of the world. he was very clever. and she decided that he was going to find the perfect spouse for prince ranger, but it had to be some one that brought, as i said, glamour and wealth to a very high scale and a lead level. oh, nest is bound to candidates. only hollywood, greatest deepest met, his standards, marilyn monroe and grace kelly. but marilyn monroe was eliminated. too poor and too wicked. ah, grace kelly was perfect. beautiful, rich scandal free hand. catholic ah, paris match magazine set up the meeting with prince fine. yeah. oh, nasa stayed in the background as his plan bore fruit.

ah, hollywood noblest princess and the prince became engaged all of monaco, celebrated ah, a year later an ocean liner headed for the fort on board. the most elegant bride in the world. always accompanied by the click of cameras, the hollywood studio she was under contract with skilfully showcases its biggest star for the last time grace kelly's entry into monaco was a triumph the wedding of glamour and nobility would be one of the biggest media events of the last century $1700.00 journalists came to the tiny principality. the whole world looked spell bound at

this fairy tale wedding. the country had until then been almost unknown. 600 invited guests were present when the prince and the hollywood princess exchanged their wedding bows and the saint nicholas cathedral. on april 18th, 1956 ah, a few hours before the wedding, the bride had to sign a strict marriage contract a fairy tale wedding that came at some expense. mm. grace kelly actually paid a $2000000.00 dowry at the time, which would be equivalent of $20000000.00 today, which when you look at it now you think is this a fairy tale wedding? why did someone like grace cali with an oscar and all their hollywood friends have

to pay the money as i understand it, it was to show that there was commitment on her part to the marriage. obviously they needed an influx of money in monaco and it wasn't just enough that she had her star power to bring with her. they wanted to know that she was serious and was going to be committed to the relationship. ah, grace kelly was reliable. she fulfilled her role perfectly. she managed to conquer the hearts of them on august and made it into all the papers with her family, all over the world. the image boost for monica was huge. just what analysis had wanted. the puppeteer soon withdrew. he lost the majority stake and the state through a clever move by prince or any others were now responsible for big business and monaco ah, the formula one circus gilded the streets of the micro state,

lost the casino and real estate businesses. within 30 years. prince renee had multiplied his country's revenue by a factor of 20. the state was transformed to day. monaco isn't oasis for the super rich. it's somewhat precarious past has long been forgotten. the former pirates nest has become a retreat for all kinds of moguls. and in the casino, nothing but red carpet in the middle of the last century, outside monte carlo money did not yet played the decisive role. rather freedom and free spirits even at the hotel de camp guests basked in the shadows of the famous like rock hudson, whose reputation included the company of beautiful women.

ah . in the 19 fifties and sixties, the french riviera was the contrast to an otherwise conservative mode. here life was more open and care free on the beaches of the coast. the culture of pleasure and swat aviva wishes again. ah be in the very west of the code to 0. lay a former fishing billy. sancho pay. ah ah while glamour and elegance rained on the beaches of can and monaco, the creative and the boy m made this place their own. i hard to imagine,

but in the 1950s. hardly any one swam here. the beaches were full of blossom and jetson. ah. but please to come on, ran a bar on the pimp long beach. not just any bar. it was the beach bar above all others. his father bought a small piece of land and this once completely remote area. him american, feel you? my mother was furious on him. we had little money and he just buys a plot of land. but he was a visionary that one will feel you. he said to us, this will be our promised land. he said sasan will put them on his space. his father was to be proved right to this day. this improvised looking place is one of the hottest beach clubs in the world, named after the year of its creation. they club $55.00

at the time the common family wanted to spend the summer casually by the sea, but then an unexpected event through their plans out of thought jesus neil lou, we knew in a jeep one day a jeep drove up here. g one. okay. driver saw our hot and our tables, which were like these he bought and thought it was a restaurant indian bomb. he told us that he was going to shoot a movie here with 80 people and asked, can you cook for everybody as griffith and my mother in law, who was not afraid of anything? said yes, hilde. of course i said you were a bishop. ah, it wasn't just any film crew, but the director course if i deem and his wife a very young brigitte bardot,

ah said did approval from you all now we'll just remove the p. s. she was the most beautiful woman in the world. no question. that a completely new phenomenon case before that the stars were very sophisticated to you always heavily made abdi draped in jewelry, thinks if they wore gorgeous dress, at least since elizabeth was a minimalist her. you know, she walked around barefoot, wore a dress made only of a piece of fabric with it. oh girl, she was like a firework, but without artificial trex, inexplicable z, that was a very, very new phenomenon such bulk herself, tis itself and of incredible brigitte bardot was the center of attention. and there was no one like her of them that all . and because she lived in san copay,

the whole place was given her reputation as i said, with that piece going to lose, but since it is ebay. but if you were to mourn some, she was considered a scandalous actress because she took off her clothes. nice sentra pay was considered the full court of hell, a place of debauchery going to place, but sank suny when bridget came here to shoot her, the whole world came over and the fans, the pepper at sea leap, brigitte bardot, a child of the city, brought enormous faint entropy apathy, lumala, formed necessarily the summer a waste of the coal moss became the beach club of the stars and those who wanted to be close to them. the former fishing village of santo pe, became the epitome of unbridled swat of evil. and where she was at home, he was to the german multi millionaire and playboy gone to zach's. the playboy met

the most desirable woman in the world. good devotee of gonzalez, the woman you'll, she answered do it. it's. glinda was like a hero from a novel. ah, he was very elegant and he's not. he was very rich fat so he could make a lot of things happen when you get that was it was like a beautiful wild animal bolt, an independent woman editor to fix. but she was tired of all the success of pulse. i think gunter was the man she needed to protect her sick. one who took care of everything the telephone booths, was malo or a put to g? a should be to go. oh, the to became the european glamour couple. they represented the lifestyle that continues to set standards. today. they married in las vegas any moment into haiti, breathless passion,

and the most exciting places in the world. a care free life around the globe. the birth of the international jet set. ah, christie madeau was free light footed, impulsive, and self confident. a whole new type of woman. ah, wherever see. and going to zach's appeared. they were mom, the price of their celebrity. ah, i mean a life that was eat bato did not want. soon she retired i and was if you truly world i left, she was used to doing her own shopping, but from one day to the next that she could no longer leave her house with result. she was essentially imprison national. he said he appreciate banjo was now one of the biggest stars in the world,

and one of the most photograph women next to marilyn monroe lady dye and jackie kennedy a fuel morning. every one wanted to see bridget, shall she change center pays destiny. look all to sample big. ah, and then the next kind of glamour. rock stars like mick jagger, who was not quite sober when he married bianca a model here and may 1971. ah, sancho pay became a playground for any one who wanted to live large. it became their el dorado sacral his bold yamaha least. wow honey sweet was a moment when the whole world changes morality. she saw the more people wanted to wander, for people wanted to be naked, to swim, to make love in peace. i'll be the top wireless. all that was here that she do fennimore talking. this is as easy as it easy. ah,

these were the golden times on the quote to do a time when everything was possible. every day, a celebration of life, ah, the hotel to cup was one of the places where the final chapter of the quota zoar is yet to be written. and where the glamorous times of this coast always live on. ah. the land say to gossip to guy yonder obs, please in patton, the sixties seventies. there was a huge parade of grace evening dresses. the people dressed up with that light was the joy. i thought it was really very eloquent to today. it's a little different on about much my time. sometimes not happy. he then the stairs. you have to go down them properly. you have to hold yourself properly. because

this staircase created the grand entrance when the who's who of international glamour gathered in the hotels park the, i'm far fundraising. gala is now one of the most prestigious high society gatherings in the world. got, you won't find more stars or big names anywhere thing. and being seen is what matters with or the murphy's boisterous beach parties. ancient history just like the scandal surrounding the windsors. mm. but the spirit of those times still hovers over the coast. ah, a coach to sewer remains the promise of love luxury and past him.

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