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According to a biography ‘Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life’ Andre Palasse, supposedly the only child of her sister Julia-Berthe who had committed suicide, was actually Chanel's child by Balsan. Later in 1908, Chanel had an affair with Balsan’s friend Captain Arthur Edward Boy Capel.
Biographer Justine Picardie, in her 2010 study Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life, suggests that the fashion designer's nephew, André Palasse, supposedly the only child of her sister Julia-Berthe who had committed suicide, was Chanel's child by Balsan.
The family—which eventually included six children—lived in poverty while moving throughout the French countryside. After her mother died in 1895, 11-year-old Gabrielle Chanel was sent to a convent-run orphanage in Aubazine. It was there that she learned to sew. At age 18, Chanel moved to Moulins, where she attended school while living in a convent.
Rumours that her older sister Julia took her own life, and that Julia's son André was in fact Coco Chanel's illegitimate child. Numerous reports of her having been a Nazi collaborator.
Gabriel Chanel was the second child of 20-year-old Jéanne Eugénie and was born in a local hospice for poor people in Saumur, France. On the day Gabrielle was born, her father, Henri Albert Chanel, was not present, presumably off working somewhere. He was possibly a “Marchand forain” or “Marchand ambulant” (a type of street peddler).
On August 19, 1883, Jeanne DeVolle gave birth, in a hospice, to Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel whom, one day, the world would know by the eponymous name of Coco Chanel. Though current day we know Chanel as an iconic luxury name, the designer's origins stemmed from a melancholy and grief-stricken childhood.
Of course, Coco is also a term of endearment for a child (and Chanel preferred telling of how her father would call her that), and it can also be a diminutive of cocotte, a French term for a...
She was Jeanne's second child with Albert Chanel; the first, Julia, had been born less than a year earlier. Albert Chanel was a street vendor who sold work clothes and undergarments, living a nomadic life, travelling to and from market towns.
The True Story of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel: The Childhood That She Never Wanted You to Know | Tatler Asia. Join this trip down Gabrielle Chanel's memory lane, visiting the places in central France where Coco grew up: from a Catholic orphanage to the city where Gabrielle got her famous nickname, Coco and finally to Moulins where she meets one of ...
At age 12, after her mother’s death, Chanel was put in an orphanage by her father, who worked as a peddler. Chanel was raised by nuns who taught her how to sew — a skill that would lead to her...