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History of St-Tropez


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galleries and some of the best restaurants along the coast. 

The 1956 Brigitte Bardot movie “And God Created Woman” put St-Tropez on the tourist map. Droves of decadent tourists baring almost all on the peninsula’s white-sand beaches followed in her wake. Two decades ago, Bardot pronounced St-Tropez dead, “squatted by a lot of no-goods, drugheads, and villains.” But even she returned, followed in recent years by celebrities like David Beckham, Paris Hilton, Jay-Z, and Beyoncé.