The Colombe d'Or

dove glide in the skies of  Saint-Paul

In 1920, Paul Roux set up a "cafe" called "le Robinson", the sign of which indicated that eveyone was welcome. Odd-looking men kept arriving by a "street-car" that commuted from Cagnes to Vence, carrying drawing notebooks, wooden paint boxes, sometimes canvases, and occasionally a portable easel. These painters were named Matisse, Signac, Renoir, Duffy, Valloton, Derain, Soutine... and they became habitués of the hospitable cafe. In 1932, Paul Roux turned his "Cafe Robinson" into an "Inn and changed its name to the "Colombe d'Or". Since then, as years and events went by, the "Colombe d'Or" has become a true museum, a witness to the artistic revolution of our century... Its rooms still preserve the aura of the many  famous people who stayed there... nowadays, visiting there remains a  "must" for celebrities of all backgrounds.

Photo J. Gomot