Saint-Tropez, on the French Côte d’Azur, evokes luxurious summer vacations spent doing little more than achieving a perfectly bronzed body, sipping rosé and pastis on a terrace, hidden behind large sunglasses like the many stars who favor the town, and finishing the day in its famed night clubs. Saint-Tropez is where Brigitte Bardot became an international sex symbol, dancing suggestively in Roger Vadim’s film, And God Created Woman, and forever bringing sensuality and star power to the resort.
Brigette also named its most famous dessert, the Tarte Tropézienne. Alexandre Micka, a Polish immigrant, had opened a pastry shop in Saint-Tropez in 1955, where he sold one of his grandmother’s recipes, a rich round and flat brioche split in half, filled with an unctuous combination of two different creams, and studded…
