Villa Marie

Address: 155 avenue des Pins Saint-Raphaël

Year built: 1883

Sponsor: Suzanne Reichenberg

Architect: Pierre Aublé

Recognizable by its tower forming a belvedere, the villa stands on a huge plot planted with Mediterranean species. She is then offered to Suzanne Reichenberg, famous actress of the Comédie-Française, by her lover Baron de Bourgoing. In 1897, the house was acquired by Oscar Roty, creator of the "Sower", an effigy of old coins and banknotes. It is in the workshop set up here that the engraver works on his sketch. In 1924, writer Scott Fitzgerald moved there with Zelda and their daughter for the summer. He writes there Gatsby the Magnificent: "We are settled like lovers and the novel is progressing at will," he writes.
In 1926 bought by the family of the famous Scottish marine and portrait painter, Roberto Sholto Johnstone Douglas descendant of the 6th Marquess of Queensberry. Their daughter Elisabeth Gwendolen marries the 6th Earl of Craven, whose ancestors are at the origin of the famous English cigarettes with Virginia tobacco!



Villa Messugues



Year built: 1882

Sponsor: Doctor Noël Guéneau de Mussy

Architect: Pierre Aublé

The villa is symbolic of the presence in Valescure of renowned Parisian doctors, convinced of the medicinal virtues of its hills. “Air is the first food, as well as the first medicine” notes Guéneau de Mussy, whose residence is distinguished by the richness of its peristyle, the elegance of its balusters and its double marble ramp. After the disappearance of the practitioner, the villa is rented to an Englishwoman, Evelyn Broadwood, who will build Le Suveret. In 1901, it was acquired by the director of Eaux de Vittel, Ambroise Bouloumié. In 1954, it will be transformed into a summer camp. It is now a condominium.

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