La Malmaison
Belle Époque seafront villa, once a grand hotel's tearoom, now a contemporary art centre.
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This guide to La Malmaison in Cannes follows Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich, a Romanov who married for love in eighteen ninety-one and paid for it with his rank and his homeland. It moves from a court scandal in Russia to Riviera villas, a mineral water fortune and the nickname locals gave him. Along the way you'll hear how a humble hotel tearoom on the Croisette grew into something grander. Best heard from the promenade, facing the villa's entrance.
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