Articles

Articles by Maureen Emerson

Maureen has also researched and published articles on the history of the Anglo American Sunny Bank Hospital in Cannes, Resistance Heroine Hélène Vagliano, Sir John Fortescue, Spitfire Pilot Richard Hillary, Eric Dunstan (‘the man with the golden voice’), Olga Khokhlova and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, (‘Russians of the Riviera’) and many more. They are all listed below and can be viewed on their own pages by following the links. Their main theme or feature is that they all have a connection with the Riviera in the South of France – hence the title, ‘Stories of the Riviera’.

TOPIC	LINK
The French Riviera - Affair of The Hotel Martinez, Cannes	VIEW
The American Riviera - James Gordon Bennett	VIEW
The Hungarian Riviera - Baroness Orczy	VIEW
Barry Dierks Villas - Illustrated	VIEW
The Riviera in Turmoil - Careless Consuls and Unbearable Boats	VIEW
The English Riviera - Eric Dunstan Story - (‘the man with the golden voice’) Including an audio of his voice	VIEW
The French Riviera - Claude Marcus’s Story Occupation to Liberation	VIEW
From Ascot to Cannes - Hélène Vagliano Resistance Heroine	VIEW
From Windsor to Provence - Sir John Fortescue Perfume from Provence	VIEW
The French Riviera - La Pausa - Before Chanel	VIEW
The American Riviera - La Turbie	VIEW
The English Riviera - Lord Derby - The Lost Villa Sansovino	VIEW
Occupied France – The Free French Journal	VIEW
The Russian Riviera - Olga Stepahovna Khokhlova	VIEW
Richard Hillary - WWII RAF Spitfire Pilot	VIEW
The English Riviera - Sunny Bank Hospital - 'Be ill in your own language'	VIEW
The Riviera of the 1920’s	VIEW
The Russian Riviera - Tsarina Alexandra Feodorova	VIEW
The Scottish Riviera - Donald Caskie - Resistant Pastor	VIEW
The British/Italian Riviera - W O Bentley and The Bentley Boys	VIEW
The Franco American Revolution - The Birth of America	VIEW
Tales of the Old Riviera - Somerset Maugham	VIEW