The French Riviera was the center of creativity during the 1920s and early 30s. Artists and writers from the far reaches of the world gathered to fashion a new way of lifeamong them Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Picasso, Picabia, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Diaghilev, and Anna de Noailles. A photobiography of this carefree era,The French Riviera in the 1920srevitalizes the now-legendary tale of these mythic personalities caught between a desire for creation, the quest for happiness, and the looming darkness of World War II.
