WHY THE FRENCH RIVIERA SHOULD BE ON YOUR TRAVEL LIST
Added on: 1st Apr 2016
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!
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