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Word: lavandou (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Juan-les-Pins was a raucous jungle every night with nightclub inanities broadcast through the streets by loudspeakers. The six miles of beach at Le Lavandou were body-covered; the bodies were oil-covered; the oil, sand-covered. At bohemian St.-Tropez, with fewer than 1,000 guest rooms, some 20,000 tourists nevertheless found shelter. Françoise Sagan left for the relative calm of Normandy; Brigitte Bardot was pregnant. Saint-Trop has nearly as many candlelit cellar clubs as the Left Bank, and the vogue has spread along the coast as far as Nice, where the Gorilla Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: On the Beach | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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