During a recent visit to the French Riviera, writer Adrian Lee got a taste of the glamour of a bygone era. He stayed at the Belles Rives hotel, the very spot where writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda and their daughter Scottie vacationed exactly 100 summers ago, when the hotel was a rental property of a different name. Staying at a locale steeped in the decadent energy of the Jazz Age, Lee couldn’t help but see the world as Fitzgerald once did, as “an escape from the world.” Read more.

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