WHY THE FRENCH RIVIERA SHOULD BE ON YOUR TRAVEL LIST

THE COTE D’AZUR IS A VERY PROMINENT

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE AS IT HAS BEEN

INHABITED SINCE PREHISTORIC TIMES

PRIOR TO THE INFLUX OF VACATIONING

ARISTOCRACY IN THE LATE 1700’S, THE COTE D’AZUR

WAS ACTUALLY A REMOTE, IMPOVERISHED REGION

NOT LONG AFTER ITS DISCOVERY, A SCOTTISH

DOCTOR NAMED JOHN BROWN BEGAN PRESCRIBING

A “CHANGE IN CLIMATE” TO HIS PATIENTS AND

MANY ENDED UP ALONG THE FRENCH RIVIERA

AS A RESULT, THE FRENCH HISTORIAN PAUL GONNET

WROTE THAT NICE WAS “FILLED WITH A COLONY OF

PALE AND LISTLESS ENGLISH WOMEN AND LISTLESS

SONS OF NOBILITY NEAR DEATH”

FOLLOWING WORLD WAR I THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY

WAS REPLACED BY LARGE NUMBERS OF AMERICAN

BUSINESSMEN AND CELEBRITIES AS THE PRIMARY

SOURCE OF TOURISM

CELEBRITIES LIKE ELTON JOHN BUY PROMINENT

HOUSES HERE

IT’S NOT ALL BEACHES AND YACHTS HERE…THE

ALPS LOOM IN THE DISTANCE

WHICH OF COURSE MEANS YOU CAN GO SKIING IN

THE MORNING AND SURFING IN THE AFTERNOON!