“... Liliane Rothschild. Only Agnelli’s hold on her was enduring. She redecorated his villa on the Riviera and converted to Catholicism to make herself marriageable. But she wasn’t respectable enough for the Agnelli clan, and his three sisters conspired to put an end to that possibility.Nearing forty and anxious about her prospects, Pamela began pursuing the ...”

“... as the Bonheur studio evolved into a family enterprise with a clear chain of command. One visitor, Paul Delaroche, recalled: ‘There was nothing simpler and more touching than this household with its patriarchal ways.’ And yet, when her father urged her to sign her first works as Raimond, Bonheur refused: the name Rosa, she insisted, was more befitting of ...”

“... life in Vienna behind. One year, Alma and Werfel spent the Christmas holidays with their friend Paul von Zsolnay on the Italian Riviera. Christmas Eve, she told her diary, was happy for the two Jews but ‘very sad’ for her because ‘nobody took any notice of the thirsting Christian woman yearning to bring back her ...”

“... sought to expand presidential power over independent government agencies, pitched Gaza as the ‘Riviera of the East’, paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, ordered a judge to drop charges against the New York City mayor, Eric Adams, and slashed federal workers from the Department of the Interior, the Nuclear Security Administration and ...”

“... In 1922 Fitzgerald took himself off to White Bear Lake in Minnesota, near his home city of St Paul, and in June of that year, while correcting proofs for Tales of the Jazz Age, began work on ‘something new – something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned’. This work, a novel, Fitzgerald told his editor Maxwell ...”

“... Until recently, they flitted between London, Moscow, New York, Switzerland and the French Riviera. They sent their children to Ivy League universities. They wooed glamorous women at three-star restaurants and grand hotels. They never missed Davos. Much of their time was spent suing one another in Western courts, dodging subpoenas, spreading kompromat ...”

“... sway. He believed they gave him only his restlessness (after a childhood spent moving between St Paul, Syracuse and Buffalo) and his ability to characterise himself as a Midwesterner, a permanent outsider.But​ Fitzgerald’s literary imagination was also drawn to the new decadent urban set: aggressive bonds traders, flamboyant bootleggers and promiscuous ...”

“... in competition). I’ve heard disgruntled French critics call Frémaux the ‘Kim Jong-un of the Riviera’. He is reported to display despotic tendencies and there is nothing to prevent him from staying in the role for as long as he likes (though every year is rumoured to be his last). Frémaux seems to like reading. In Sélection officielle, he cites ...”

“... in the same impossibly glamorous literary and artistic circles in London, Paris, Manhattan, the Riviera and elsewhere. The now seldom heard phrase ‘café society’ captures something of the social milieu they occupied but does not describe it completely. Cohen’s subjects were rather more intellectually inclined than the ‘café society’ label ...”