The Riviera Set Quotes

“While the English were lording it at Cannes the Russians were the dominant foreigners at Nice.”
― Lita-Rose Betcherman, The Riviera Set: From Queen Victoria to Princess Grace

“Alexander Dumas, pere, whose son created the most famous consumptive of all in La Dame aux Camelias, observed in 1847 that “frail pale women come to Nice to die,” and he criticized the townsfolk for “living at the expense of the sick foreigners.”
― Lita-Rose Betcherman, The Riviera Set: From Queen Victoria to Princess Grace