Anne de Courcy. (2020). Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

Anne de Courcy. 2020. Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944. Macmillan Audio.

Anne de Courcy, Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944. Macmillan Audio, 2020.

Anne de Courcy. Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2020.

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   • bioText: Anne de Courcy is the author of several widely acclaimed works of social history and biography, including CHANEL'S RIVIERA, THE HUSBAND HUNTERS, MARGOT AT WAR, THE FISHING FLEET, THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS and DEBS AT WAR. She lives in London and Gloucestershire.
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"Narrator Sophie Roberts's strong, polished, highly sophisticated voice effectively conveys the aura of fashionable society but maintains a firm narrative objectivity. Droll, fascinating, full of memorable characters and anecdotes, here is a perspective on a world and time that moved from drawing-room comedy to the private dramas of war and occupation." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century.
The Cote d'Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling cast of characters including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Colette, the Mitfords, Picasso, Cecil Beaton, and Somerset Maugham. The elite flocked to the Riviera each year to swim, gamble, and escape from the turbulence plaguing the rest of Europe. At the glittering center of it all was Coco Chanel, whose very presence at her magnificently appointed villa, La Pausa, made it the ultimate place to be. Born an orphan, her beauty and formidable intelligence allured many men, but it was her incredible talent, relentless work ethic, and exquisite taste that made her an icon.
But this wildly seductive world was poised on the edge of destruction. In a matter of months, the Nazis swooped down and the glamour of the pre-war parties and casinos gave way to the horrors of evacuation and the displacement of thousands of families during World War II. From the bitter struggle to survive emerged powerful stories of tragedy, sacrifice, and heroism.
Enriched by original research and de Courcy's signature skill, Chanel's Riviera brings the experiences of both rich and poor, protected and persecuted, to vivid life.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

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   • content: Yesterday's gossip is today's history, a principle amply confirmed by this richly detailed audiobook chronicling the high life on the Riviera in the 1930s through WWII. Designer Coco Chanel is the focus of the narrative, and the thread that connects a wide cast of contemporaries ranging from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to Marlene Dietrich, Picasso, Churchill, and H.G. Wells. Narrator Sophie Roberts's strong, polished, highly sophisticated voice effectively conveys the aura of fashionable society but maintains a firm narrative objectivity. Droll, fascinating, full of memorable characters and anecdotes, here is a perspective on a world and time that moved from drawing-room comedy to the private dramas of war and occupation. D.A.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
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     December 2, 2019
     Journalist de Courcy (The Husband Hunters) portrays fashion designer Coco Chanel’s French Riviera milieu from 1930 through the end of WWII in this dishy and well-researched account. At a time when the Côte d’Azur had already become “the playground of the rich,” Chanel bought 12 acres above the village of Roquebrune and built a villa modeled after the convent where she’d spent her adolescence. Writers and artists including Colette, Aldous Huxley, and Pablo Picasso had homes in the region, and Winston Churchill, Vladimir Nabokov, and Chanel’s friend and lover Salvador Dalí visited during summers of “feverish gaiety, threaded through with rumor and suspicion” as the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany. After the fall of France in 1940, British nationals fled the Riviera, and de Courcy frequently and deservedly shifts the spotlight from Chanel to historical figures including Australian socialite Enid Furness, who helped Allied prisoners escape from a detention camp near the village of Èze. De Courcy describes the impact of anti-Jewish laws and food shortages on those who remained in the region, but lets Chanel off the hook for her anti-Semitism and her affair with Nazi intelligence officer Hans von Dincklage, who helped to insulate the designer from wartime deprivations. Nevertheless, this fluidly written history succeeds in capturing the era’s intoxicating mix of glitz and grit. Agent: Isobel Dixon, The Blake Friedmann Literary Agency.

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In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century.
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List of Illustrations
Introduction
Prologue
1. 1930, the Beginning: La Pausa
2. Misia Sert and her Circle
3. Fun, Games and the Beginning of Terror
4. Love and Glamour on the Sunshine Coast
5. Socialism and Mrs. Simpson
6. 1937, the Rise of Schiaparelli
7. The Shadow of War
8. "La drôle de guerre"
9. June 1940
10. The Vichy Government
11. "A German Victory is Certain"
12. The Brutal Antisemitism of Vichy; Italian Protection
13. Escapes, Captures and Starvation Rations
14. Trying to Survive
15. Dubious Activities
16. The Resistance Grows Stronger, the Starving People Weaker
17. Last Days
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

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