Cap d’Antibes appears briefly in the account of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald, serving as a marker in the chronology of their changing circumstances rather than as a fully described setting. The narrative places the couple there before their return to Paris, where Scott’s drinking and disruption of his work had become more pronounced.

The Fitzgeralds’ Stay

The account says that F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald had been at Cap d’Antibes. It gives no description of their activities, surroundings, or daily life there. The location enters the story through its connection to the couple and the sequence of events around their time away from Paris.

A Pause Without Recovery

In the period leading up to the stay, Zelda’s amusement at the attention of men pursuing her made Scott jealous; he accompanied her to places, and the tension disrupted his work. He struggled to write in snatches, though he remained cheerful and companionable when the narrator saw him, and he wrote “The Rich Boy.” The later reference to Cap d’Antibes does not present the stay as a turning point: the narrator says Scott had not sobered up on the Riviera.

Return to Paris

That autumn, after the couple’s time at Cap d’Antibes, Scott appeared changed when the narrator saw him in Paris. He was drunk in the daytime as well as at night, and work no longer seemed to matter to him. The passage makes the location part of a before-and-after sequence, but does not claim that Cap d’Antibes itself caused his decline. Its narrative function is to mark the interval before the deterioration became visible in Paris.