"The name Côte d'Azur was given to the coast by the writer Stéphen Liégeard in his book, La Côte d'azur, published in December 1887. Liégeard was born in Dijon, in the French department of Côte-d'Or, and adapted that name by substituting the azure colour of the Mediterranean for the gold of Côte-d'Or." Also it was the custom to go there in winter. Yep, it's a distinctly different shade of blue to the usual alright. The mineral azurite : Pretty close.
And again, we have the azure sea from Athenopolis or the modern Saint Tropez. More big motorboating to be seen here. Saint Tropez is, arguably, the electronic music capital of Europe some say.
He does not know, as a conspiracy theorist he was just compelled to follow Wildforchild's hypnotic suggestion to find anything to support his brain fart. Wildchild being low-rent enough to think France is so far away. Its the game where you point and shout so the dog runs to check barking at nothing. Just smart enough to understand what pointing is, not much else.