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A rugged shoreline, and azure...
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...constitute the Côte d'Azur,
the French Riviera.
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The English lent their name
to landmarks here:
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the Promenade des Anglais...
- Nice.
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- ... the Hôtel des Anglais.
- Menton.
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... the Eglise anglaise,
or the English Church...
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and the British Pharmacy.
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COASTING
ALONG THE COAST
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We won't be filming the natives.
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Cogolin.
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In the popular imagination,
they're always old and charming.
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Let's leave them
to the ox and the ass.
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Our subject is the crowd:
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the tourists, the curious,
the emigrants, the enthusiasts.
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Those who one day
discover the coast
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and gather here
to spend their leisure time.
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In 40 years, Nice's population
grew from 100,000 to 240,000.
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104,762 imported sleepers
overpopulate it nightly.
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Cannes awakens
with 32,003 emigrants,
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and Saint-Tropez,
a village of 4,000 souls,
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registers 50,000 in August.
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What are they all looking for?
And when did they first arrive?
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The first to come seeking a cure
may have been Cornelia Salonina,
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a Roman empress who,
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for her fragile health
and shattered nerves,
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spent the winter
at Cimiez's thermal baths.
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Nice.
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The first tourist was perhaps
Cardinal Maurice of Savoy,
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who at 50 shed his robes
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to marry his niece,
Princess Marie-Louise, aged 14.
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Their bridal chamber
is still visited today.
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2 Rue Jules Gilly, Nice.
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They spent the winter there,
thus inventing "swallows tourism,"
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which promises,
in any season, not just the sun
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but the wild palm...
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the mimosa...
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the lone cypress...
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groves of cypresses...
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the maritime pine...
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the pink laurel...
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the prickly pear, which Moroccans
call "the Christian fig"...
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and the century plant,
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which lives 100 years,
flowers once, and dies.
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In the 1800s,
a trip from Calais to Nice
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meant 16 days in a stagecoach,
stopping at 107 stations.
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Cannes, the 107th stop,
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surged in popularity
due to the plague,
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which closed the gates of Nice
to Lord Brougham.
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Charmed by Cannes
during his quarantine there,
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he stayed over 40 years.
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Many English followed,
including Queen Victoria.
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English dukes,
Russian grand dukes,
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many titles,
and even a few names.
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Dante Alighieri...
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Italian consul in Nice.
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Émile Zola...
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honeymooned
at the Hôtel de Paris in Monaco.
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Friedrich Nietzsche...
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conceived Act 3 of Zarathustra
around the village of Eze.
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Lucien Guitry...
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barnyard animals...
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and the garden
in St.-Pons-les-Mûres.
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One partly sunny morning
in Monaco,
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a student resembling
Guillaume Apollinaire.
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And Colette...
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who resembled
a Saint-Tropez cat...
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wrote Break of Day.
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Giraudoux, in Porquerolles...
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invented Suzanne and the Pacific.
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Painters too ennobled the Riviera.
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In Joseph Vernet's paintings...
- Antibes.
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...one can see the tower
of the Château Grimaldi.
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In the Château Grimaldi,
one can see Picasso's paintings.
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A painter and ceramic artist,
Picasso worked year-round.
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On the coast he has just one
serious competitor in painting and firing:
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the sun.
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The sun's chariot
rises up from the sea.
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It carries humanity along
on its fiery course,
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leaving it exhausted at night,
to be reborn the next morning
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and begin again
its cyclical travails,
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which require surmounting
modesty and boredom,
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at the risk of losing one's head
or one's skin —
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the latter judged
by the much coveted suntan.
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At this point,
it's best to cover up.
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Need gives rise to beauty...
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and coverings become fashion.
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In search of the sun,
they found oblivion.
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Where are they?
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Far away.
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Far from the coast.
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Far from everywhere.
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It's called exoticism.
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A pagoda-shaped shop?
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It's Sunday in Beijing.
- Fréjus.
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A Sudanese mosque?
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Africa beckons.
- Fréjus.
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A dome?
It's the Orient Palace.
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Menton.
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A Persian house?
The Arabian Nights.
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Monte Carlo.
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A Russian church with carriage:
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Moscow, 1900.
- Nice.
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A bather...
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a metro station:
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Paris, 1900.
- Cannes.
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Finally, the most exotic of all:
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the exotic gardens.
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A favorite site for nature lovers
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longing for the silence
of the plant kingdom.
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They never bother
remembering the plants' names.
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They'd rather
the plants remember theirs.
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They write their own name,
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or the name of a beloved,
hoping she'll appear.
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If they can't see, touch,
or speak to Bardot,
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they can come drink
in Saint-Tropez.
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Their appetites change
via a process of natural adaptation.
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In Cannes they come to eat
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when they've failed to see
Sophia Loren at the Festival.
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And if they can't afford a Matisse,
they visit his grave.
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Dead or alive,
celebrities have their admirers.
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Cro-Magnon Man, ancient celebrity
and oldest of the dead,
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receives visitors
before the Trophy of Augustus...
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La Turbie.
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- ... the Roman aqueduct...
- Fréjus.
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...and the 13 moth-eaten
marble blocks,
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destined for the Temple
of Augustus in Narbonne —
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alas, sunk in a tempest,
not raised in a temple.
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Saint-Tropez.
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But let us render unto museums
that which was Caesar's...
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and appreciate instead
other inhabited relics,
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the most precious of the Riviera:
its age-old trees.
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A gigantic elm from Sulla's day.
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In Ramatuelle.
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- A 1,000-year-old olive tree.
- In Beaulieu.
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A bald cypress
from Canada and Louisiana,
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from a cutting made
by Monsieur Robert in 1797.
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In Toulon.
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- A century-old oak.
- In Saint-Cassien.
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And the salutary shade
of hackberry trees.
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In Cogolin.
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In contrast to this somberness,
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there's the bright color
of the local markets.
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But tourists passing through
prefer the colors in fashion:
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yellow and blue.
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Hotels too wear
the fashionable colors of the day.
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Yellow or blue? Blue wins out.
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All women wish to be fashionable.
All women wear blue.
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Except the English...
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those learning to swim...
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and the Germans,
great fans of green.
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Camping is the airiest form
of freedom,
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and the most wildly ceremonial.
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Life is good, lived
with the majesty of ancient chiefs
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retiring to their tents.
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Campgrounds crowded with bon vivants
lured by the seashore
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mirror the campgrounds
of the happily deceased
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on the same peaceful shores.
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In both cases,
residents vie for prime real estate.
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The coast is indeed "the most."
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The Riviera is the most
beautiful cemetery in France,
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offering unobstructed views
and a sea that's ever new.
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The Riviera's dead
are high-class tourists,
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their rest well-deserved.
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The landscape is as discrete
as a heavy heart without tears...
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modest as an arch
without roses...
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calm as a field without honor...
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childlike as a cradle...
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silent as a neighboring forest...
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and as surprising as finding,
just over a wall...
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a giant Virgin.
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Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
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The Holy Mother missed her cue
to enter the church,
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and the cock fell
from the bell tower
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as if knocked over
in this game of boules.
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Luck turns at the roulette wheel.
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Wheels turn too.
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Death surprised Isadora Duncan.
- In Nice.
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Jean-Gabriel Domergue
stands ready before his tomb,
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built the way others build
less eternal homes,
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full of the charm of life.
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THE CHARMER
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TENDERNESS
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FRENZY
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FINALLY
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The villa is a delirium
of decorative dreaming.
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Abandoned gardens,
forgotten villas —
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this is cinema.
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Blasco Ibáñez's friends...
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enjoyed this retirement home
for writers.
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Others prefer hotel life.
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What makes them prefer
one particular hotel...
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is the doorman's greeting.
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How familiar he is with you
is the barometer
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that tells whether
you're a somebody or a nobody.
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Doorman for 20 years
at the Grand Hôtel...
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he's still playing the game,
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welcoming small-timers
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with a nagging nostalgia
for the big spenders.
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Where is the formerly
Grand Hôtel?
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Where is Eden Roc?
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Where is Eden?
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The entire coast sighs for it.
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The entire coast loves its name.
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PEDAL BOATS
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF EDEN
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There's never enough
to go around.
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Forbidden Eden creates a stir.
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00:19:24,164 --> 00:19:26,291
Nostalgia gives way to a carnival.
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The carnival burns.
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The earth trembles.
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The sun goes mad.
The waters are calmed.
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Carnival is dead. Silence reigns.
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Silence in reply
to so many questions,
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to volcanoes and whirlwinds.
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Eden exists.
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00:22:22,718 --> 00:22:24,302
It's a dawn.
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Eden exists.
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It's an island.
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Paradise was a beach
and a pinecone.
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But nostalgia for Eden
is a garden.
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It's no longer the Côte d'Azur...
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but a transplanted garden...
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the notion of a garden,
with flowers, lawns, and colonnades.
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Forgetting the nearby sea...
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the pond is a lament...
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the water lily a lingering sigh.
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These are false Eves...
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ersatz Adams...
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imitation Cupids...
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deceptive Venuses...
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fake caves and pretend nymphs.
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Though these reveries
are shared by all,
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the gardens are not for the public.
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This fake Eden is not for us...
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no more than the real Eden.
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And worst of all...
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summer comes to an end.
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Until next year
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Until next summer, so far away
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00:26:47,107 --> 00:26:53,154
They've locked the sea away
behind a gray horizon
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And thrown away the key
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00:26:57,242 --> 00:27:01,955
Morning glories bloom but for a day
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Summer blooms but for a summer
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Yesterday was summer,
time for sun and play
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Now the dazzling summer
has faded
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00:27:18,471 --> 00:27:23,977
Now the reveling sun is jaded
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How silly and sad
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The party is over
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Summer is gone
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