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The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera
Maybe someday
27
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
5/100Critics
50/100Scholars
Author:
Jonathan Miles
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Date:
September 5, 2023
Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin.
What The Reviewers Say
Reading this breathtaking account of the transformations of the French Riviera over the last two millenniums is like riding shotgun with a racecar driver in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Miles has extracted the gems from ample research but offers scant original reporting. As he moves briskly through the decades, the anecdotes pile up like Legos, yielding a result that’s colorful but chaotic..
Miles’s evocation of the French Riviera is as fascinating in its historical sweep as its devotion to gossip and misbehaviour.
Entertaining.
