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
W. B. Yeats
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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival a
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
…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 neighboring town of Menton on 28 January 1939. In a letter to his wife, Yeats expressed his wish to be buried in…
Yeats in 1911
1900 portrait by Yeats's father, John Butler Yeats
Yeats in 1903
Maud Gonne (c. 1900)