For hundreds of years, the Provencal village of Les Couchettes d'Azur has nestled on the south slope of a limestone escarpment. Its tall medieval houses cluster tightly together against the fierce sun in the summer and the bitter Mistral in the winter. Some of the south-facing windows of the houses look out between the pine trees, across the fields of vines and olive groves to the Mediterranean sea five kilometres away. There has always been peace and harmony in the village... until a celebrity arrives. Bernard Itrock, the internationally famous rugby star, retired five years ago and bought a...