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A Brief History of Cannes, France: From Fishing Village to Film Festival Across Two Centuries of Labor, Luxury, and Inequality on the French Riviera

A Brief History of Cannes, France: From Fishing Village to Film Festival Across Two Centuries of Labor, Luxury, and Inequality on the French Riviera

Biles, Ralph

Paperback

Series: Engrossing History

French HistoryGeneral World HistoryWorld War II

ISBN13: 9798249010560
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every paradise is built by someone.
In 1834, Cannes was a fishing village of 4,000 people. A British lord's carriage stopped there accidentally during a cholera quarantine. That single detour triggered nearly two centuries of transformation.

A Brief History of Cannes, France tells the story behind the Instagram sunsets: the chambermaid who died from coal dust in hotel fireplaces, the fisherman who sold his cottage for 6,000 francs only to watch it become worth millions, the construction workers who built villas they'd never afford, the climate scientists whose warnings went unheeded until heat waves killed dozens, the tenant organizers fighting displacement in a city designed for the wealthy.

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