Juan-les-Pins (; oc, Joan dei Pins) is a town in the commune of

Antibes Antibes (, also , ; oc, label= Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice. The town of Juan-les-Pins is in the commune of Antibes and the Sop ...

in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern

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. Located on the French Riviera, it is situated between

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, to the southwest of

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. Juan-les-Pins is a major holiday destination popular with the international jet set, with a casino, nightclubs and beaches. It is served by Juan-les-Pins station on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.

History

Situated west of the town of

on the western slope of the ridge, halfway to the old fishery village of Golfe-Juan (where

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landed in 1815), it had been an area with many stone pine trees ( in French), where the inhabitants of Antibes used to go for a promenade, for a picnic in the shadow of the stone pine trees or to collect tree branches and cones for their stoves. The village was given the name Juan-les-Pins on 12 March 1882. The spelling ''Juan'', used instead of the customary French spelling, ''Jean'', derives from the local Occitan dialect. Other names discussed for the town include ''Héliopolis'', ''Antibes-les-Pins'' and ''Albany-les-Pins'' (after the Duke of Albany, the fourth son of

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). The following year, 1883, it was decided to build a railway station in Juan-les-Pins on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) line that had been there since 1863. Gare de Juan les Pins

In 1926, the famous hotel Le Provençal was opened and received guests like

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Cultural references

F. Scott Fitzgerald mentions Juan les Pins in ''Tender is the Night''. Nelly persuades Pierre to move to Juan-les-Pins to escape his mother in Jacques Feyder's Pension Mimosas (1935). Peter Sarstedt famously mentions Juan-les-Pins in his 1969 UK number one

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"; a portrait of a girl who becomes a member of the Euro

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. The lyrics refer to the girl spending her summer vacations in Juan-les-Pins. "Golfe Juan" is the name of a pointillist painting done by Paul Signac, a French neo-impressionist, in 1896. Juan-les-Pins is prominent in Sartre's ''The Reprieve'', the second volume of his '' Roads to Freedom'' trilogy. The area is also the home of

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, the protagonist in eleven Upton Sinclair novels. In Charles R. Jackson's novel ''The Lost Weekend'', the main character, Don Birnam, mentions a holiday in Juan-les-Pins. In Alan Furst's novel "Kingdom of Shadows", protagonist Nicholas Morath, his Argentine girlfriend Cara, and assorted friends spend early June 1938 in Juan-les-Pins. Near the end of

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's ' 'The Goldfinch' ', the protagonist travels to many 'exotic places,' such as Juan-Les-Pins, to rectify his wrongdoings. Camille Aubray's fictional novel ''Cooking for Picasso'' takes place in Juan-les-Pins.

Points of interest

Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret The Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret () is a renowned botanical garden located on the grounds of the Villa Thuret, 90, chemin Raymond, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. It is open weekdays without ...

* Aujourd'hui, curvy modernistic seaside former beach house of movie mogul

* Home of the 6 Jours d'Antibes, the Antibes 6 Day Race. * 5, Rue Jacques Leonetti, 06160, Antibes, the address of the world's first Discothèque, in 1947, (now demolished), opened by Paul Pacini, (died 12/12/'17), ((later of Cannes Radio)), the 'Whisky à GoGo'; (the name taken from the 'Galore', in

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, published the same year, by Compton Mackenzie.

Personalities

* Frank Jay Gould * F. Scott Fitzgerald *Gerald Murphy *

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* Georges Milton

Twin towns

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References

External links

Festivals Internationaux de Bridge d'Antibes en Juan-les-Pins
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