Not trusting his plans to set up production near New York City, Chanel battles to claim ownership. In the climate of rising anti-Semitism, he has escaped to the United States with the secret formula for Chanel No. Surrounded by the oppressor, Chanel fights her own private war with her business partner, Pierre Wertheimer, to retain full control of her perfume company. During the occupation of Paris, Chanel finds that one of her neighbors in the Hotel Ritz is the Reich’s High Command. The novel imagines the lesser known aspects of the life of Chanel during the Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of World War II as revealed in recently discovered wartime files.Ĭoco Chanel could be happy, good-natured, and giving she also could be cut-throat, scheming, and harsh.
But in contrast to her public persona, Chanel is a complex woman of intrigue. Iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel is admired for her sophisticated style and famous for her signature perfume Chanel No. When she is covertly recruited by Germany to spy for the Reich, she becomes Agent F-7124, code name: Westminster.Listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction, The Queen of Paris (2020) is an historical biographical novel by award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen. She will even agree to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect her darkest secrets. Chanel-a woman made of sparkling granite-will do anything to survive.
While Chanel struggles to keep her livelihood intact, Paris sinks under the iron fist of German rule.
Distrustful of his intentions to set up production on the outskirts of New York City, Chanel fights to seize ownership. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the United States with the confidential formula for Chanel No. Surrounded by the enemy, Chanel wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, is fiction based on facts, some uncovered only within the past few years, and vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII.Ĭoco Chanel could be cheerful, lighthearted, and generous she also could be ruthless, manipulative, even cruel. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style-the iconic little black dress-and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No.
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