James Gordon Bennett Jr (1841-1918) founded the Paris Herald (ancestor of today's International Herald Tribune) in 1887 and ran it from his villa in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, using it to advertise the coast and its visitors. He came to Villefranche in 1882, on his yacht Namouna, one of the most beautiful of the world. Although partly remembered as having created a messenger service between Menton and Cannes and perhaps moreso of sending the journalist Henry Morgan Stanley (1841-1904) in 1869 to rescue the Scottish missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone (1813-1873), who was looking for the source of the Nile, the use of Gordon Bennett's name is more often associated with his outragous lifestyle and involvement with newsworthy stunts. Reading yet another news item concerning his latest antics, people would restrain from a "God Almighty" and instead exclaim "Gordon Bennett!" Bennett was one of the millionaire rogues who set the brashy tone of the Riviera in the 1880s and 1890s; if his food arrived late at a resta