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Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post–World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. A prolific fashion creator, Chane…
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business · French fashion designer (1883–1971) · fashion designer · textile designer · business executive · modiste · grand couturier · costume designer · entrepreneur · also Coco Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, Gabrielle Chanel, Chanel
Born 19 August 1883 · Died 10 January 1971 · Q45661
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2026· 38 entries
British Vogue: Coco Chanel’s Favourite Trousers Are An Autumn Staple Again
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ArchDaily: Galería de Esta escalera de madera se inspira en la famosa escalera de espejos de Coco Chanel - 9
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Gentleman's Journal: La próxima Coco Chanel será programadora
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Vogue México: Coco Chanel llevó primero los pantalones negros que vuelven con zapatos de tacón bajo en septiembre 2026
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FMDOS: Somos La Percha celebra su primer aniversario con una nueva editorial inspirada en Coco Chanel
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Radio Concierto Chile - Sólo grandes canciones: Moda, identidad y autoestima: Somos La Percha celebra su primer año con una editorial inspirada en Coco Chanel - Radio Concierto Chile
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los40.cl: Somos La Percha celebra su primer aniversario con una editorial inspirada en Coco Chanel
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Mujerhoy: Jeanne Paquin, la mujer al frente de la primera casa de alta costura internacional: precursora de Coco Chanel y adelantada al marketing de influencers
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KREPSINIOZINIOS.LT: Original Coco Chanel Perfume An Iced Drink On A Plate With A Wooden Stick Sticking Out Of It's Top
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Times Now: John Galliano to Coco Chanel: Brilliant Designers with Controversial Legacies Beyond the Runway
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Soy Carmín: La historia del vestido negro: de Coco Chanel al vestido de la venganza de Lady Di
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KREPSINIOZINIOS.LT: Family Etretat Coco Chanel 1913 A Cat That Is Sitting Down With Its Eyes Closed
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Yahoo: What Coco Chanel Perfume Taught Me About Love
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fuelcarmagazine: Print Logo Coco Chanel Number Coco Chanel Poster Posters With Fashion Citations –
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El Mundo: De los tirantes de perlas de Nicole Kidman que Coco Chanel habría aprobado al vestido de Gal Gadot, como una ola, estos son los looks triunfales del día
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The Times of India: Fashion quote of the day by Coco Chanel: 'Fashion changes, but style endures'
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The Guardian Nigeria News: Coco Chanel: The fashion designer’s legacy, 50 years after her death
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Vogue México: Encontré los zapatos de tacón bajo más elegantes (inspirados en Coco Chanel) para llevar en otoño 2026
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Sortir à Paris: Chanel Cambon, la tienda histórica donde Gabrielle Chanel estableció su Casa de Alta Costura
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Public attention spiked: 12,529 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.1× the usual 2,067, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: Reverted edits by Sx9j (talk) (HG) (3.4.14)
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Via Libre: ¡Este sábado vuelve la gran feria! Coco Chanel tira la casa por la ventana y trae precios increíbles como remeras desde $3.000
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En Pareja: Date night outfits men instantly love, inspired by Coco Chanel
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House & Garden: Coco Chanel’s beloved Riviera garden has been restored to its 1930s beauty
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Philstar Life: Did Coco Chanel try to set Elsa Schiaparelli on fire?
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Paris Select Book: Peter Marino resurrects Coco Chanel's Riviera gardens at La Pausa, ancient olive trees and all
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Coco Chanel: ‘The most courageous act is still to think for…’ What the fashion icon te
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Coco Chanel: ‘The most courageous act is still to think for…’ What the fashion icon teaches us about courage and individuality
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Onda Cero: Coco Chanel vuelve a Biarritz, donde comenzó su historia en la moda
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revistavanityfair.es: Louise de Vilmorin, la escritora musa de Azzedine Alaïa que se enfrentó con Coco Chanel y fue el gran amor de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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marieclaire.ua: 800-Year-Old Olive Trees and Lavender: Chanel Has Restored Coco Chanel's Garden
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EntertainmentNow: Hollywood Icon Joan Collins Pays Homage to Coco Chanel
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AD Middle East: Inside Coco Chanel’s French Riviera Getaway That Has Just Been Restored to Its 1930s Glory
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Yahoo: Inside the Restoration of Coco Chanel's Garden on the French Riviera
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Architectural Digest: Coco Chanel's Riviera Gardens Were Restored With Her Iconic Tweed Suits In Mind
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ArchDaily: Galería de Frases: Coco Chanel y el estilo - 1
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2025· 1 entry
Observer: ‘Coco Chanel’s Roaring Twenties’ Examines Sporty Silhouettes and Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations
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2024· 1 entry
Washington Post: Trying to tell Coco Chanel’s controversial life story — through ballet
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2023· 2 entries
Robb Report: This New Coco Chanel-Inspired Trip Follows the Famed Designer’s Travels Across France
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A purported membership card for the French Resistance belonging to Chanel was discovered in the French national archives by Chanel biographer Justine Picardie
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2019· 1 entry
Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Chanel for 1924
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2016· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 1 octobre 2016.”
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2005· 1 entry
The Chanel firm released an exact replica of the original 1955 bag to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its creation
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1992· 1 entry
“Statement to Salvador Dalí, about herself and her friendship with Misia Sert, as quoted in The Persistence of Memory : A Biography of Dali (1992) by Meredith Etherington-Smith”
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1987· 1 entry
“Statement in the 1920s as quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymari”
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1971· 30 entries
Died 1971-01-10.
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“Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
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“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
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“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
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“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.”
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“Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.”
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“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
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“As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.”
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“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
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“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
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“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
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“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
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“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
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“I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil.”
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“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
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“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
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“El perfume es una dimensión interior de la feminidad que, sobre todo, expresa de una manera particular aquello que no se podría decir de otro modo.”
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“La moda riflette sempre i tempi in cui si vive, anche se, quando i tempi sono banali, preferiamo dimenticarlo.”
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“He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.”
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“La naturaleza te da la cara que tienes a los 20. La vida moldea la cara que tienes a los 30. Pero a los 50 tienes la cara que te mereces». [La nature vous donne le visage que vous avez à 20 ans. La vie forme le visage que vous avez à 30 ans. Mais à 50 ans vous avez le visage que vous méritez]. .”
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“Todo lo que es moda pasa de moda.”
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“Per essere insostituibili bisogna essere diversi.”
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“There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”
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“Una mujer sin perfume es una mujer sin futuro.”
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“Se ho scelto il diamante è perché, con la sua densità, rappresenta il valore più grande espresso nel volume più piccolo.”
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“Una donna deve essere solo due cose, elegante e straordinaria.”
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“[Ultime parole pronunciate in punto di morte, rivolgendosi alla cameriera] Vedi, così si muore.”
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“Chanel era una donna del suo tempo.Non era una conservatrice con lo sguardo rivolto indietro. Al contrario, detestava il passato, compreso il suo, e tutto viene da lì.È per questo che la maison Chanel deve essere l'immagine del momento. (Karl Lagerfeld)”
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“Ask me who I don't dress!”
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Neiman Marcus Fashion Award (1957).
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Has clearly been whited out before "Eric" was written in with no supporting evidence from witnesses on file that she was ever in the resistance and that "Eric" primarily operated in the Balkans, not where Chanel lived
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1954· 2 entries
The French press were cautious due to her collaboration during the war and the controversy of the collection
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Was fully financed by Chanel's opponent in the perfume battle, Pierre Wertheimer
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1953· 1 entry
Sold her villa La Pausa on the French Riviera to the publisher and translator Emery Reves
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1951· 1 entry
Owing to incurable liver disease and took refuge in Italy
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1949· 1 entry
Chanel left her retreat in Switzerland to confront testimony given against her at the war crime trial of Baron Louis de Vaufreland, a French traitor and highly placed German intelligence agent
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1947· 1 entry
With his "New Look", and a cadre of male designers achieved recognition: Dior, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Robert Piguet, and Jacques Fath
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1946· 1 entry
Chanel was quoted by her friend and confidant, Paul Morand, Homosexuals
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1945· 1 entry
Chanel moved to Switzerland, where she lived for several years, part of the time with Dincklage
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1944· 3 entries
“On Charles De Gaulle from the 1944 interview with, the then MI6 agent, Malcolm Muggeridge. Read the full interview here.”
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Chanel left a note in her store window explaining Chanel No
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Recalled a meeting he had with Dincklage in early 1943, in which the baron had suggested including Lombardi as a courier
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1943· 2 entries
Chanel travelled to the RSHA in Berlin, known as the "lion's den"
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To convince the British ambassador to Spain, Sir Samuel Hoare, a friend of Winston Churchill, about a possible German surrender once the war was leaning towards an Allied victory
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1942· 1 entry
“[A Jean Cocteau, 2 aprile 1942] Non ho mai fatto vestiti, ho fatto la moda. Per chi la farei oggi? Non lavoro più perché non ci sono più le donne che potrei vestire.”
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1939· 1 entry
At the beginning of World War II, Chanel closed her shops, maintaining her apartment situated above the couture house at 31 Rue de Cambon
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1936· 1 entry
One year after Le Témoin ceased publication, Chanel veered to the opposite end of the ideological continuum by financing Pierre Lestringuez's radical left-wing magazine Futur
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1933· 2 entries
As a decorative element on a white-trimmed black suit
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Designer Paul Iribe collaborated with Chanel in the creation of extravagant jewellery pieces commissioned by the International Guild of Diamond Merchants
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1932· 1 entry
“Si j'ai choisi le diamant, c'est parce qu'il représente avec sa densité, la valeur la plus grande sous le plus petit volume. (dalla presentazione di una collezione di gioielli creata nel 1932)”
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1931· 1 entry
While in Monte Carlo, Chanel became acquainted with Samuel Goldwyn
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1929· 1 entry
Chanel introduced a handbag inspired by soldiers' bags
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1927· 1 entry
The Duke of Westminster gave Chanel a parcel of land he had purchased in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera
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1926· 2 entries
Maintained a friendship that lasted some forty years
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The American edition of Vogue published an image of a Chanel little black dress with long sleeves, dubbing it the garçonne ('little boy' look)
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1924· 1 entry
Chanel made an agreement with the Wertheimer brothers, Pierre and Paul, directors since 1917 of the eminent perfume and cosmetics house Bourjois
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1923· 3 entries
The Chanel tweed suit was designed for comfort and practicality
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At age forty, Chanel was introduced by Lombardi to the vastly wealthy Duke of Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, known to his intimates as "Bendor"
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Vera Bate Lombardi, (born Sarah Gertrude Arkwright), reputedly the illegitimate daughter of the Marquess of Cambridge, offered Chanel entry into the highest levels of British upper classes
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1922· 1 entry
At the Longchamps races, Théophile Bader, founder of the Paris Galeries Lafayette, introduced Chanel to businessman Pierre Wertheimer
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1921· 2 entries
Opened an early incarnation of a fashion boutique, featuring clothing, hats, and accessories, later expanded to offer jewellery and fragrances
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Marked one of the first times a designer extended their brand beyond clothing, helping to establish the modern concept of lifestyle branding in fashion
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1920· 1 entry
Chanel herself vowed that, while observing an audience at the opera, she would dress all women in black
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1919· 2 entries
“In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.”
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“In 1919 I woke up famous and with a new friend who was to give its full meaning to my success.”
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1918· 2 entries
Chanel purchased the building at 31 rue Cambon, in one of the most fashionable districts of Paris
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Did not completely break off with Chanel
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1916· 1 entry
Chanel was able to reimburse Capel's original investment
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1913· 1 entry
Chanel opened a boutique in Deauville, financed by Arthur Capel, where she introduced deluxe casual clothing suitable for leisure and sport
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1910· 1 entry
And opened a boutique at 21 rue Cambon, Paris, named Chanel Modes
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1908· 1 entry
Chanel began an affair with one of Balsan's friends, Captain Arthur Edward 'Boy' Capel
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1906· 1 entry
Chanel worked in the spa resort town of Vichy
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1884· 1 entry
Married Jeanne Devolle, persuaded to legitimate his children by her family who had "united, effectively, to pay Albert"
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1883· 2 entries
Born 1883-08-19.
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To Eugénie Jeanne Devolle Chanel, known as Jeanne, a laundrywoman, in the charity hospital run by the Sisters of Providence (a poorhouse) in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire
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