The Beinecke Library’s “Road Show” is composed of letters, postcards, photographs, and other items drawn from their deep collection of American literature.
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Inside the Hotel du Cap, The South Of Franceâs Legendary Celebrity Getaway
âFrom Marlene Dietrich to Madonna, the hotel has [always] been a home away from home for the super-famous.â
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Slim Aarons, from Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc: A Timeless Legend on the French Riviera, Flammarion, 2021
For a century and a half, the Hotel du Cap, on the southern-most tip of Cap d’Antibes on France’s Côte d’Azur, has been the preferred playground for iconic figures of every decade “from the Belle Époque, through the Jazz Age, the jet age, the 1960s and ’70s, right up to the present.”
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In my mindâs eye, I see F Scott Fitzgerald in white flannels on some Riviera beach, or at the wheel of a flashy car, its metallic curves in sharp contrast to the waistless girls all around. Forever a shiny figure, irrespective of what I know of his struggles with booze, outwardly he could not be more different to his literary idol, John Keats, with his curls, his cough and his mud-spattered boots. If both men were permanently in motion, comets blazing, Keats by design as well as necessity was a tramper: in 1818, he walked for 600 miles across Britain. Whatever the connections between them, the parallels of biography and sensibility, I can no more imagine he and Fitzgerald together than I can see them in silvery old age (Keats was 25 when tuberculosis killed him; Fitzgerald died of a heart attack aged 44).