The current Villa “La Louisiana”, the late “Idéal Séjour” hotel, housed the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats. He was one of the instigators of the revival of Irish literature.
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With the development of tourism, labor is flowing in to meet the need for servants, gardeners and other artisans useful for the comfort of villas, hotels and restaurants. On the Cape Plateau, a few more modest establishments delight tourists and locals alike. Several Italian families settle there, work there and have fun there. In the 1930s, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats moved into the “Ideal Séjour” hotel, now Villa Louisiana. He rents all the rooms there to accommodate his writer friends. Tirelessly, this 1923 Nobel Prize winner in literature wrote his last poems there. It was here that he died in 1939. The call of the Mediterranean to continue writing and, for others, a call of the sea heard from childhood, to the point of building a legend. That of “Madame de la Mer”, nickname given to Virginie Hériot, the first woman to win a gold medal in Sailing at the 1928 Olympic Games. Her memory hangs over Cap Martin in this street which bears her name, but also in the area private, at the curious villa Cypris, which accumulates the inspirations of her mother's boat trips and in the villa Les hirondelles which she lived in for a time.
With the development of tourism, labor is flowing in to meet the need for servants, gardeners and other artisans useful for the comfort of villas, hotels and restaurants. On the Cape Plateau, a few more modest establishments delight tourists and locals alike. Several Italian families settle there, work there and have fun there. In the 1930s, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats moved into the “Ideal Séjour” hotel, now Villa Louisiana. He rents all the rooms there to accommodate...
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