Hemingway and Monroe's beloved French Riviera hotel to reopen after 50 years as high end homes

A faded Jazz Age hotel on the French Riviera is to find a new lease of life as a luxury residential development aimed at the super-rich.

Hôtel Provençal is a grand, 10-storey building on the Cap d ’Antibes, the chic, moneyed Mediterranean resort. It was a playground for the rich and famous, visited by the likes of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

It was where Ernest Hemingway would drink;