Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
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Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, simply Roquebrune until 1921, is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Southeastern France, between Monaco and Menton. The name w
A view of the old village, with the Cape and the Bay of Roquebrune
The seaside resort of Carnolès (near) and Menton (distant)
Sign board commemorating Sir Winston Churchill
La Pausa
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La Pausa is a large detached villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It was designed and built by the French fashion designer Coco Chanel in the early 1930s, and o
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
…of Italy until September 1943. The area became fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s leading to the construction of buildings including Coco Chanel's La Pausa on Cap Martin, and Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici's E-1027. The Irish poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats died in the Hôtel Idéal Séjour in the…
Coco Chanel and the Duke of Westminster
The Great Hall of La Pausa as reconstructed at the Dallas Museum of Art
A box of paints used by Winston Churchill at La Pausa
Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples, a Bottle and a Milk Pot, 1900–06