John-Mark Horton grew up fluent in both French and English, and no matter which language he is speaking, he says, his accent falls somewhere between the two. The Los Angeles-based interior designer was raised in Chicago but spent vacations visiting his mother's French-Greek parents, who lived in Monaco, the fashionable city-state on the French Riviera. In the late 1960s, Horton's mother came to own a pied-a-terre in the nearby medieval village of Roquebrune. A twisting warren of red-tile roofs, narrow streets, and arched passageways, Roquebrune spills down a steep hillside. Presided over by a 10th-century castle, the village lies at the heart of the commune of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin; the Italian border is a few miles away.
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