Architectural, Cultural sights in Côte D’Azur
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La Maison des Papillons
Around 4500 butterflies collected by Dany Lartigue, son of Riviera photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), are pinned to the walls in La Maison des Papillons. Find the House of Butterflies in the former home of Madeleine 'Bibi' Messager, the first wife of Jacques Lartigue (he had three) who remained in St-Tropez after the couple split.
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Château La Moutte
The Château La Moutte's unmarked entrance is on chemin de la Moutte. In summer musical concerts are held. The library here holds Émile Olivier's 17-volume L'Empire Libéral. Olivier served as first minister to Napoleon III until his exile in 1870. This used to be his home on Cap des Salins.
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Villa Isola Bella
Between 1920 and 1921 novelist Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) stayed in the Villa Isola Bella, in the upmarket neighbourhood of Garavan, to attempt to ease her worsening tuberculosis. A plaque on the villa wall marks her stay.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts
Along the coast, Monaco's royal family summered at 18th-century Palais Carnolès, today the Musée des Beaux-Arts, surrounded by a fabulous lemon and orange grove studded with sculptures.
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Salles des Mariages
In 1957 Jean Cocteau decorated Menton's Salles des Mariages, inside the town hall, with scenes of Orpheus' and Eurydice's wedding, galloping horses and starry local lovers.
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John Taylor & Son
Walk west along La Croisette and pick yourself a dream mansion (to buy or rent) in the windows of 140-year-old estate agency John Taylor & Son.
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Matisse's House
Nearby cours Saleya is Matisse's house where he lived in the 1920s; there's no plaque: look out for the lions.
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