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Chanel’s Riviera audiobook

  • By: Anne de Courcy
  • Narrator: Sophie Roberts
  • Category: History, Social History
  • Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: February 11, 2020
  • Language: English
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Chanel’s Riviera Audiobook Summary

“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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Chanel’s Riviera Audiobook Narrator

Sophie Roberts is the narrator of Chanel’s Riviera audiobook that was written by Anne de Courcy

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.

About the Author(s) of Chanel’s Riviera

Anne de Courcy is the author of Chanel’s Riviera

Chanel’s Riviera Full Details

Narrator Sophie Roberts
Length 10 hours 51 minutes
Author Anne de Courcy
Category
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date February 11, 2020
ISBN 9781250258519

Subjects

The publisher of the Chanel’s Riviera is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is History, Social History

Additional info

The publisher of the Chanel’s Riviera is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250258519.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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