St.-Trop On The Cheap

June, 1977

Sometime around the turn of the century, a French travel writer whined that St.-Tropez had been discovered as a tourist retreat. He can thank his lucky St. Emilion that he wasn't around for Brigitte Bardot's invasion during the Fifties and its subsequent fallout. It's now the undisputed playground of the jet-set gentry. It was there, you may recall, that James Coburn arranged his elaborate scavenger hunt in The Last of Sheila. The place has a deserved reputation: It's effortlessly beautiful. Tro...