With their fortunes made on their early hits, they wrote their later ones in Paris or on the Cote d'Azur.
The Independent understands that police were led to Mouans Sartoux by private detectives, who followed a London-based Ukrainian woman (a close friend of Mr Ablyazov) to one of at least three homes he had rented on the Cote d'Azur.
The Heineken Cup holders have spent the last few weeks deflecting questions about whether the former England outside-half would play on next season but as the sun set on a warm day on the Cote D'Azur, the inquiry was a simple one: would he play again?
A host of stars have been on the Cote d'Azur for the 67th Cannes Film Festival, one of the key events in the film industry calendar and a magnet for film-makers, journalists and hopefuls from across the globe.
It could have been one of the great European nights, one of the most memorable of all comebacks, one for Arsène Wenger to look back fondly on in retirement on the Cote d'Azur with a glass of cognac in his hand.
That "gorgeous" glass of rosé de Provence that tastes like nectar on the Cote d'Azur in July with your arm around a loved one never tastes the same in your flat in January after 12 hours in the office and a crowded train.
Since January, at least three seals have been found dead on the Cote d'Opale, a burst of shore near the Netherlands.
'The most gorgeous tart on the Cote d'Azur.
Such payments are thought to be a big part of union life on the Cote d'Azur.
So, from everyone not on the Cote d'Azur: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
We were going to find Liberian child mercenaries on the Cote d'Ivoire border.
