The Hyères writer Gustave Roux recounted the legend surrounding the islands of Hyères in the Var department and explained their beauty. These islands, formerly called Stoechades (the aligned) and today known as the Golden Islands, would correspond to the bodies petrified by the Gods of the daughters of King Olbianus threatened with kidnapping by a pirate ship while they were swimming off the coast. The three most distant sisters would have formed the Golden Islands (Porquerolles, Port-Cros, and Le Levant), while the youngest, desperately reaching out to her father, would have become the peninsula of Giens.