Bijou Plage
Gently sloping sandy cove with an accessible beach, a short jetty and views across the bay.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bijou Plage in Cannes follows Pierre Canto, a local businessman who in the late nineteen fifties offered the town a harbour it would not have to pay for. It moves between the postwar boom in pleasure boating, a minister's signature in nineteen sixty-four, and a family courtroom fight decades later. Best heard at the end of the beach's short jetty, facing the masts next door.
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