Hôtel Du Cap-Eden Roc
The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc is a Hotel#Resort hotels, resort hotel in Antibes on the French Riviera. Built in 1869 as a private mansion, it opened as a hotel in 1889. History The founder of France's ''Le Figaro'' newspaper, Hippolyte de Villemessant, built the Villa Soleil in 1869 for writers seeking inspiration. In 1887, Italian hotelier Antoine Sella bought the property, and opened the Grand Hôtel du Cap in 1889. In 1914, the Eden Roc pavillon was built 400 yards away from the main hotel. Gerald and Sara Murphy, a young American couple who had expatriated to France in the 1920s, once rented the hotel for an entire summer, a unique event for the era as the French Riviera was not a summer destination at the time, but a winter escape for the wealthy. With the Murphys came many writers and artists of the Lost Generation, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Fitzgerald immortalized it as the Hôtel des Etrangers in ''Tender Is the Night''. Marc Chagall made sketches in o ...
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