![]() ![]() ![]() Invitations to her events were always highly sought-after, and she gave parties from morning to night. Morgan-and built the much-visited villa the Château de l’Horizon in 1932. Though she is relatively unknown today, Elliott amassed a fortune-with helpful advice from J.P. ![]() The author anchors the story with a biography of American actress and businesswoman Maxine Elliott (1868-1940), a grande dame of the scene. Within this glamorous milieu, one always needed money, but breeding, talent, beauty, sociability, and a good sense of humor were also very important. Though British wealth ruled the 1920s and ’30s, after World War II, the Americans and Europeans took over. Like the author’s tale of the Mitford family, this is a gossipy book with courtesans and famous politicians hopping from château to château and bed to bed. Lovell ( The Churchills: In Love and War, 2011, etc.) turns her attention to the French Riviera between the wars and into the 1960s. ![]()
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