--- product_id: 127049596 title: "Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944" brand: "anne de courcy" price: "169.13 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/127049596-chanels-riviera-glamour-decadence-and-survival-in-peace-and-war store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 **Brand:** anne de courcy **Price:** 169.13 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 by anne de courcy - **How much does it cost?** 169.13 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/127049596-chanels-riviera-glamour-decadence-and-survival-in-peace-and-war) ## Best For - anne de courcy enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted anne de courcy brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 ## Images ![Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515rXUGSL-L.jpg) ![Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41bURiXynzL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐ No plot. *by U***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2020* If you want to read a book about Coco Chanel. This isn't for you. This is a chopped up name dropping gossip column of who was in the French Riviera in the 1920s and the following decades. Ed very disappointing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Total Immersion In Chanel's Riviera -- The Place & The Time *by J***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2020* Coco Chanel, the revolutionary French fashion designer, cultivated friendships with the rich and famous. By the time she launched her eponymous perfume "Chanel No. 5, she was a wealthy woman. In 1929, Chanel purchased a home on the Côte d'Azur, (the French Riviera), in the small village of Roquebrune. It was the first time in her life she would live according to her own rules and wishes at "La Pausa," the property she transformed from dilapidated buildings into a beautifully designed villa. Chanel knew, and was known by the wealthiest most powerful people of the day as well as all of the famous and infamous artists and authors (from the Prince of Wales, Churchill, and Picasso to Jean Cocteau and everyone in between). This book not only follows her social connections from 1930 with her friends and business associates, but also the lives of people living in France through the German invasion, (four million people fled Paris in 1938), through September 1944 when Chanel was questioned by "Le Comite d'epuration" as a possible Nazi collaborator. (The "Epilogue" encapsulates Chanel's life from 1949 to her final collection in the spring of 1971.) Coco Chanel was an independent, talented, generous woman who is portrayed as an opportunist. She had a long relationship with a German intelligence officer, Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage, who was 13 years her junior. It was, according to some, a true love affair, that may also have been motivated by Chanel's desire to get her nephew freed from an internment camp. Through Von Dinklage and his connections, Chanel was able to help others gain their freedom during the German occupation.This is an astonishingly well written and researched history of Coco Chanel, based on interviews, diaries, journals and the historical record, covering in depth the deprivations suffered by the French during World War 2. A good portion of this is about the hardships and survival of regular folks, the hunting, rounding up, imprisonment (and death) of Jews, those in the resistance, and those caught in the crossfire. As one might expect, the wealthiest often survived without too much hardship, and ate well, thanks to the availability of food on the black market, while the poor starved and went without the basics. Many, on the Côte d'Azur, who had the means, escaped to Lisbon and from there to the United States or England. Those without money barely survived; many didn't. There are many fascinating episodes in Chanel's life that are brought to life in this history. In one of them, in late 1943 or early 1944 Chanel arrived in Madrid to broker a peace treaty between Churchill and the Germans. (Called "Operation Model Hat," but it wasn't successful. Churchill and Chanel had been acquaintances since dining together with mutual friends on the Riviera in the late '30s.) This book gives the reader a total-immersion experience of life on the French Riviera from the 1930s on, and a profound knowledge of Coco Chanel. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oooola la *by N***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2020* Everything you could want to know about the life on the Riviera during WWII and among the celebrities living there. Coco Chanel was at the peak of her career and living among many prominent people while the Jewish population was being rounded up and shipped out. And the Italians were protecting them ... who knew? 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