Casino Barriere Le Croisette
Seafront casino inside the festival palace, with gaming tables, slot machines, bars and shows.
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This guide to the Casino Barrière Le Croisette in Cannes follows François André, a country boy from the Ardèche who began with Paris gambling rooms and ended up running the town's municipal casino from nineteen twenty-six. It opens on his honeymoon in Monaco in nineteen ten, with his new wife Marie-Louise and her savings. Along the way you'll meet Eugène Cornuché of Deauville and a nephew from a goat-farming family.
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