Vence stands almost a thousand feet up in the hills, about ten miles inland: two features that, in January 1930, caused the English novelist and travel and short-story writer David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence to move there. In Bandol, he had been examined by Dr Moreland, an English chest specialist on holiday in the area, who had told him that he should move to a higher altitude, away from the coast.
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D H Lawrence in Vence
Vence stands almost a thousand feet up in the hills, about ten miles inland: two features that, in January 1930, caused the English novelist and travel and short-story writer David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence to move there. In Bandol, he had been examined by Dr Moreland, an English chest specialist on holiday in the area, who had told him that he should move to a higher altitude, away from the coast.Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 November 2008 12:59 )
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Robert Louis Stevenson and La SolitudeThe literary history of Hyères is written in its street names: rues Voltaire and Simenon; avenue Edith Wharton. But its most famous Hyères-ophile, Robert Louis Stevenson, remains streetless. The author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped discovered the Côte d’Azur in 1863 when, at the age of 12, he visited with his parents. Consumptive from an early age, he returned at ten-year intervals.
Dorothy Parker in Antibes
Dorothy Parker and the Prohibition Dodgers
On the Cap d’Antibes, at the entrance to the chemin des Mougins, a fragment of a sign remains nailed to a post. The sign used to direct visitors to the Villa America, the home of a wealthy Bostonian couple Gerald and Sara Murphy, who lived there through most of the 1920s.
The villa was well named, for it was here that the Murphys extended hospitality – and sometimes money – to galaxies of contemporary American writers and hangers-on. Among those enjoying their largesse – and the escape from Prohibition – was the New York short story writer, poet and critic, Dorothy Parker.Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 November 2008 12:50 )
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