It was on the French Riviera that Fitzgerald finished The Great Gatsby and met Gerald and Sara Murphy-the glamorous couple that Fitzgerald would use as the inspiration for his last novel, Tender is The Night, also written on the Côte d'Azur. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and their toddler daughter Scottie left their home on Long Island for the South of France, hoping to find a cheaper place to live, some quietude to write-Fitzgerald was already a literary sensation for This Side of Paradise-and the goal of finding 'a new rhythm to our lives,' as Fitzgerald wrote.
