Travel through the Riviera’s tumultuous history with Michael Nelson
The French Riviera: A History ranges from the Terra Amata in Nice, occupied from 380,000 years ago and one of the oldest inhabited prehistoric sites in the world, through to settlement by Greeks, Romans, Franks, Ostrogoths and Visigoths, wars and revolutions, to the establishment of the Silicon Valley of France in Sophia-Antipolis in 1974.One might assume that a destination as well-known as the French Riviera would not be lacking in books about its history – but this was not the case. “When I was launching my book, Americans and the Making of the Riviera, in Nice in 2008, Lin Wolff, owner