PATRICK HOWARTH When the Riviera Was Ours Patrick Howarth describes how foreigners, and the British in particular, made the French Riviera what it was, and what it is: from Tobias Smollett, who was an early visitor, through Queen Victoria and Edward VII, Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham and many others, up to the present day, when the French have finally entered into their own territory. This is a warm, witty and nostalgic book, sure to please all those who savour—whether in fact or imagination —the delights of the French Riviera.

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