{"id":236776,"date":"2025-03-19T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=236776"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:31:22","slug":"the-french-riviera-in-the-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/the-french-riviera-in-the-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"The French Riviera in the 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Riviera was the center of creativity during the 1920s and early \u201930s. Artists and writers from the far reaches of the world gathered to fashion a new way of life\u2014among 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 1920s by Assouline revitalizes 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. With extraordinary images taken from personal archives, these pages depict firsthand the lifestyles and artwork of some of the most influential artists of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240417 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_04-1286x697-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1286\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_04-1286x697-1.jpg 1286w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_04-1286x697-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_04-1286x697-1-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_04-1286x697-1-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_04-1286x697-1-850x460.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-236767 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1946\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_03.jpg 1946w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_03-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1946px) 100vw, 1946px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-236765 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1946\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_01.jpg 1946w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_01-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/French-Riviera-Spread_01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1946px) 100vw, 1946px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-236773 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-french-riviera-in-the-1920s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-french-riviera-in-the-1920s.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-french-riviera-in-the-1920s-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-french-riviera-in-the-1920s-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-french-riviera-in-the-1920s-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-french-riviera-in-the-1920s-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-236763 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-6.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-6-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-6-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-6-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-6-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Photos Courtesy of Assouline<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Riviera was the center of creativity during the 1920s and early \u201930s. Artists and writers from the far reaches of the world gathered to fashion a new way of life\u2014among them Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Picasso, Picabia, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Diaghilev, and Anna de Noailles. A photobiography of this carefree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":240419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18542,18560,18563],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240421,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236776\/revisions\/240421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}