Graham Greene, peace found in Antibes

From the end of the 1920s, the Côte d'Azur became a refuge and a place of inspiration for British and American authors.

The Quai des Billionaires, with its huge yachts that look like flies, did not exist when Graham Greene, a young man in his forties, who had resigned from MI6, came to Antibes for the first time after the war.

He was going on a cruise on producer Alexander Korda's boat, a British army torpedo boat converted into a pleasure boat.

On board, Vivian Leigh, Laurence Olivier, a son of Churchill.

had just been translated into French, prefaced by Mauriac.

Graham Greene was already known but did not yet have the fame he would have when he settled permanently in Antibes in 1966 and began a new life, more peaceful, liberated, he would say.

Le Figaro

At the end of the 1940s, he was more tormented than ever.

Entered the Catholic Church in 1926, after long discussions with a priest to whom he had…

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