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A Brief History of the Legendary Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc Leena Kim © Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc The luxurious French Riviera retreat, which reopens post-Covid on June 4, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. In the opening lines of his fourth and final novel, Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes a "large, proud, rose-colored hotel" nestled on the French Riviera between Marseilles and the Italian border and about five miles from Cannes: "Deferential palms cool its flushed facade, and before it stretches a short dazzling beach. Lately it has become a summer ...

What Fitzgerald called Gausse’s Hôtel des Étrangers was of course modeled after the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, a glittering refuge for the one percent since 1870. For 150 years, the property has served as the sun-kissed home away from home for titans of literature (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stefan Zweig, Noël Coward), film (Marlene Dietrich, Alain Delon, Elizabeth Taylor, who brought all of her husbands there, and every Hollywood A-lister in town for Cannes), art (Chagall, Picasso, Matisse), music (John and Yoko, Jane and Serge, Ella Fitzgerald), politics (Churchill, De Gaulle, the Kennedys), a...

Matthew Lynn Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for WSJ Marketwatch, The Spectator and Money Week as well as The Telegraph, and has worked as a columnist for The Sunday Times and Bloomberg. His books include ‘Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis’ and ‘The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031’ as well as the ‘Death Force’ thrillers published by Hodder Headline. He is also the founder of Endeavour Press, a leading e-book publisher.

Rishi Sunak, the UK's finance minister, has presented his budget for 2021, which contained both tax cuts and spending cuts in order to assist the ailing economy. But it...

Friday, Jan 22, 2021 When I first considered myself a socialist revolutionary in 1970, I was hounded by free marketers’ challenge: “name me one country where socialism works”. These market fundamentalists would then hold up the most strident expectations for socialism: Everyone is exactly equal with no classes. There is an abundance of goods which are conveniently circulated. Political rule is not dictatorial. All competition is banished. People are working together, collectively and creatively. The state has withered away. Anything less than this was pro...