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  • Chanel's Riviera

  • Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d'Azur, 1930 -1944
  • Written by: Anne de Courcy
  • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
  • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Chanel's Riviera

Written by: Anne de Courcy
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
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Publisher's Summary

Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsy to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed from politics or conflict.

Featuring a sparkling cast of artists, writers and historical figures including Winston Churchill, Daisy Fellowes, Salvador Dalí, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Eileen Gray and Edith Wharton, with the enigmatic Coco Chanel at its heart, Chanel's Riviera is a captivating account of a period that saw some of the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the whole of the 20th century.

From Chanel's first summer at her Roquebrune villa La Pausa (in the later years with her German lover) amid the glamour of the prewar parties and casinos in Antibes, Nice and Cannes to the horrors of evacuation and the displacement of thousands of families during the Second World War, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur elite in the 1930s and 1940s. 

Enriched with much original research, it is social history that brings the lives of both rich and poor, protected and persecuted, to vivid life.

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©2019 Anne de Courcy (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group

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Very well done

I have been drawn to Coco Chanel’s story partly for her business success as a woman, but mostly out of curiosity about her rumoured collaborations with the Nazis during WWII. From this account it seems that there wasn’t all that much of the latter. Excellent account of life in the French Riviera during German occupation (best I’ve read yet).

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