Five legendary hotels on the Côte d’Azur with a new look

It was a sporting clash billed as the ‘Match of the Century’. French tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen up against her American rival, Helen Wills. The match, held almost a century ago in 1926 at the prestigious Carlton Hotel in Cannes, was the first official clay court match to ever take place. Lenglen eventually emerged victorious, 6–3, 8–6.

The Carlton isn’t the only grand hotel of France’s fabled Côte d’Azur dripping with such ‘did you know?’ tidbits of history. The…