Well, he did say something about going to France . . . 
I'd heard of Aix, but that's all, just heard of it. Apparently it's near the Cote d'Azur, which means the old guy's loaded.....thus making his past support of the grouchy old sourassed sourpuss Methuselah, leader of the gimme crowd, somewhat ah, hypocritical.
<<<wonders if they considered Biarritz, the "in" place to be, but maybe they did, and found even he couldn't afford it.