History sometimes takes curious detours.
In 1783, because she wanted to flee England and the stifling gossip that has been running since her divorce, Lady Penelope Rivers bought a piece of land in Nice on the seafront. She had a neoclassical palace built there, which was a revolution for the time. , has more than twenty monumental windows on the facade.
Each year, this ex-wife of a peer from England settles there in October and finds the banks of the Thames at Easter.
The winter resort fashion is launched.
It is at the origin of an unprecedented architectural fever, which transfigures the coast from Nice to Menton, in the French Riviera.
Art Nouveau and its follies
With the construction of gems whose jovial host Sophie Jovillard pushes the doors for this program which combines scholarly commentary and visits to an exceptional heritage.
Like that of the Éléonore-Louise castle, built in Cannes in 1836 by Lord Henry Brougham.
A home so named in memory of her daughter, who died of tuberculosis ...
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