Cannes

Also French Riviera, the French Riviera

Where Bertie, Aunt Dahlia and Angela spent the summer, met Madeline, and where the shark struck.

In each book 2 books

• In Right Ho, Jeeves
  Where Bertie, Aunt Dahlia and Angela spent the summer, met Madeline, and where the shark struck.
• In Ring for Jeeves
  On the French Riviera, where Bill and Mrs Spottsworth swam, drove and danced together years before.

Connections

dealings

• is stayed at by Angela 4
• is stayed at by Aunt Dahlia 4
• is stayed at by Bertie Wooster 4
• is stayed at by Madeline Bassett 3
• is suspected by Tuppy Glossop 1
• is refused by Uncle Tom 1

Inside it

• the Casino at Cannes

Scenes set here

1. Bertie explains that Madeline, Angela's friend at Cannes, struck him dumb with her soulful talk of stars being God's daisy chain, which makes her just the girl for dreamy Gussie.Chapter 1, Cannes
2. Bertie recalls how a shark knocked Angela off her aquaplane board at Cannes and snapped at her ankles.Chapter 7, Cannes

Talked about, but not there

Right Ho, Jeeves 14 scenes

1. Bertie starts his story with a scrap of dialogue, decides he has begun too abruptly, and traces the whole affair back to his visit to Cannes.Chapter 1
2. Bertie recounts two months at Cannes with Aunt Dahlia and Angela, where Aunt Dahlia lost heavily at baccarat and Angela was nearly eaten by a shark, and their return to London.Chapter 1
3. Bertie tells Jeeves to push Gussie's romance along, then clashes with him over the white mess jacket from Cannes and insists he will wear it to Pongo Twistleton's party.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
4. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Chapters 3–6, Bertie's flat
5. Arriving at Brinkley, Bertie hears Aunt Dahlia's troubles: the prize giving, Gussie's newts, her baccarat losses, Uncle Tom's tight purse and the quarrel between Angela and Tuppy, which was about a shark.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court
6. Dressing for dinner, Bertie scorns Jeeves’s fire-alarm idea for reconciling Tuppy and Angela, explains his own starvation scheme, and triumphantly sends Jeeves to fetch the white mess jacket he packed himself.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as our Gallic neighbours
7. Aunt Dahlia mocks the mess jacket and reveals Uncle Tom gave her the printers’ money she lost at baccarat, so Bertie recruits her to the scheme of refusing food at dinner to soften Uncle Tom.Chapter 9, the Brinkley drawing-room
8. Bertie returns to the drawing-room, quails at the sight of the Bassett, but takes her out for a stroll after an exchange of ‘Lovely’s about Cannes.Chapters 9–10, Brinkley Court
9. Starving after skipping dinner, Tuppy tells Bertie Angela hasn't softened and vows to tear apart the man he thinks stole her at Cannes.Chapter 11, the smoking-room
10. Bertie goes looking for Angela, who has gone to bed, and finds a famished Aunt Dahlia, who tells him Anatole has given notice because of his no-dinner scheme.Chapter 11, the Brinkley drawing-room
11. Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Brinkley
12. Back late from the Stretchley-Budds, Angela agrees to a stroll with Bertie, at which Tuppy leaps up and upsets a table and Uncle Tom breaks a coffee cup.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room
13. In the garden Bertie runs Tuppy down to provoke Angela into defending him, but she heartily agrees, adds complaints of her own, and goes in, whereupon Tuppy emerges from the bushes.Chapters 14–15, the garden at Brinkley
14. Bertie drives back and dozes, then Jeeves tells him how the prize-giving ended in the national anthem and that Madeline has broken off her engagement to Gussie, just as Tuppy barges in.Chapters 17–19, Bertie's room at Brinkley

Ring for Jeeves 6 scenes

1. Bill and the Carmoyles argue over whether Mrs Spottsworth will buy the Abbey, Rory tells Bill the police and a mystery man have been asking about his car, and Jeeves announces Mrs Spottsworth.Chapters 6–7, the living room, as French Riviera
2. Ellen announces a Captain Biggar; Mrs Spottsworth, thrilled to find an old friend, gets Monica to invite him to stay, and Monica's triumphant news turns Bill green.Chapter 7, Rowcester Abbey
3. Jill coldly questions Bill about his Cannes intimacy with 'Rosie' Spottsworth, leaves to fetch her things for the night with a pointed remark, and Bill grumbles to Jeeves about women and snubs his Aunt Emily.Chapter 9, the living room
4. Rory tells Monica that Biggar has something on Bill and spins wild theories about stolen idols' eyes and an illegitimate baby, while Monica scoffs and tells him to stop running down Rowcester Abbey to Mrs Spottsworth.Chapter 9, the living room
5. Jill, gloomy and suspicious, learns Bill is in the garden with Mrs Spottsworth; Captain Biggar praises the spider sequence, and Bill returns to report that the pendant came off but fell down the front of Mrs Spottsworth's dress.Chapters 13–14, the living room
6. Colonel Wyvern is cheeked by his teenage cook and butler, learns from Jill that she has broken off her engagement over Bill's goings-on with Mrs Spottsworth, and resolves to horsewhip Bill, though he will have to borrow Bill's horsewhip to do it.Chapter 16, Colonel Wyvern's study