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The Riviera Set reveals the storyplot of the group of people who resided, partied, bed-hopped, and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of 40 years from enough time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960. At the heart of active group was the amazing Maxine Elliott, the daughter of the fisherman from Connecticut, who built the beautiful artwork deco Château and helped bring together the likes of Noel Coward, the Aga Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and two very saucy courtesans, Doris Castlerosse and Daisy Fellowes, who set out to be dangerous interruptions to Winston Churchill as he worked on his journalism and biographies during his "wilderness years" in the 30s. After the War the storyplot persisted as the Château transformed hands and Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood collection, as well as release his seduction of and eventual relationship to Rita Hayworth. Getting a bygone time back again to life, Mary Lovell cements her spot as one of the top public historians in this captivating and evocative new reserve.
