Bon Weekend!

"On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel. Deferential palms cool its flushed facade, and before it stretches a short dazzling beach. Lately it has become a summer resort of notable and fashionable people; a decade ago it was almost deserted after its English clientele went north in April. Now, many bungalows cluster near it, but when this story begins only the cupolas of a dozen old villas rotted like water lilies among the massed pines between Gausse's Hôtel des Étrangers and Cannes, five miles away."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1933

Image: Bibi at the Eden Roc Hotel, 1920; Jacques Henri Lartigue

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I just finished reading Tender is the Night awhile ago, and this photograph is perfect for the opening lines in the book. I wish this were the cover of my copy.