Hôtel du Cap

[1] The founder of France's Le Figaro newspaper, Hippolyte de Villemessant, built the Villa Soleil in 1869 for writers seeking inspiration.

[3] Guests included Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Winston Churchill and Charles De Gaulle.

[5] In 1964, Rudolf August Oetker, a German industrialist, and his wife Maja von Malaisé first spotted the mansion while sailing on the Côte d'Azur in 1964; they bought the hotel five years later after the death of André Sella.

[8] In May 2011, the Hôtel du Cap-Eden Roc was hosting, on its principal driveway to the sea, the Croisière 2011–2012 Collection of the Chanel couture house.

It also was the scene for designer Karl Lagerfeld's 2011 short-film The Tale of a Fairy,[9] featuring actors and models including Freja Beha, Bianca Balti, Amanda Harlech, Anna Mouglalis, Kristen McMenamy, Baptiste Giabiconi, Sébastien Jondeau [fr], and Mark Vanderloo.

[12] The property is composed of 5 buildings: The main hotel, a Napoleon III château, is located on the southern tip of the Cap d'Antibes.