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Cote d'Azur left to nouveau riche

I am appalled by the absurd snobbery associated with French regions, including Provence - anything is better than the UK! Here's a few, reported in Australia:

  • Provence is much more popular with left-wing voters, according to L'Express.
  • Provence and Vaucluse was home to the gauche-caviar set, the left-leaning politicians and writers who flocked there during the Francois Mitterrand presidency of the 1980s.
  • Le nouvel Observateur. the favourite news weekly of the Left Bank dismissed St Tropez as "the capital of dosh and show-offs".
  • Old money and the conservative upper orders have long favoured the more bracing climate and sporty ambiance of the Atlantic coast and Brittany to the Mediterranean with its suntan oil and pizza.

You are where you holiday.

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