Emery REVES (1904 - 1981) Winston Churchill and Paul Reynaud walking in the gardens of the villa "La Pausa" in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin circa 1959 Silver print Mounted on heavy paper Captioned on the back: "Villa La Pausa / Roquebrune, 30.3.1959 / taken by Emery Reves". Dimensions (photograph): 23 x 16.5 cm (9 ¹⁄₈ × 6 ½ in.) Dimensions (mount) : 27.5 x 21 cm (10 ⁷⁄₈ × 8 ¼ in.) A silver print captioned at the back "Villa La Pausa / Roquebrune, 30.3.1959 / taken by Emery Reves" Commentary: The Villa "La Pausa" is a Provençal-style house designed by Gabrielle Chanel, financed by Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, and built in 1928 in the middle of an olive grove on the heights of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Many of the most famous figures of the Roaring Twenties flocked there, including poets Pierre Reverdy and Jean Cocteau, actress Greta Garbo and decorator and cabinetmaker Paul Iribe, who died of a heart attack while playing tennis. It's easy to imagine the enchanting charm of this mansion, an austere setting on the French Riviera, the privileged setting for the Café Society so well described by Francis Scott Fitzgerald in Tender and the Night or, in a different vein, by Agatha Christie in her detective novels. In 1953, when the Duke of Westminster died, Coco Chanel sold the property to Emery Reves. Emery Reves (1904 - 1981) came from a Hungarian Jewish family. He studied in Budapest, Berlin and Paris. He moved to Paris in 1933 when the Nazis came to power. He quickly set up a press agency there, which published articles by Winston Churchill in 1937. This proximity enabled him to obtain a visa and then British nationality in June 1940. Churchill then sent him to the United States to develop anti-Nazi propaganda and encourage the United States to join the war on the side of the Allies. After publishing Fritz Thyssen's I Paid Hitler in 1941, he went on to publish a Manifesto for Democracy in 1943 and Anatomy of Peace in 1945. He handled the American rights to Churchill's War Memoirs. In 1953, he bought the villa La Pausa, where he received Winston Churchill on many occasions. Emery REVES (1904 - 1981)