Summer on the French Riviera like F. Scott Fitzgerald

In honor of The Great Gatsby’s 100th anniversary, here’s a love letter to some of the author’s favorite places and sources of inspiration on the Côte d’Azur.

In 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald brought his wife, Zelda, and their daughter, Scottie, from Long Island, New York, to the South of France in search of inspiration. He certainly found it. On the sunbaked Côte d’Azur, between days at the beach and Champagne-drenched evenings, Fitzgerald finished The Great Gatsby, his third novel, which would become one of the Jazz Age’s most enduring works.