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Coco Chanel Early Life - School Essays

Coco Chanel Early Life

Early Life

She was born the second daughter of traveling salesman Albert Chanel and Jeanne Devolle in the small city of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. There was a mis-spelling on her birth certificate that recorded her surname as "Chasnel", making the tracing of her roots almost impossible for biographers when Chanel later rose to prominence. Gabrielle was born in a poorhouse. Her birth was recorded the following day. Two employees of the hospice went to city hall and declared the her. The hospice employees were illiterate, so when the mayor François Poitu wrote down the birth, no one knew how to spell Chanel so the mayor improvised and recorded it with an "s", making it Chasnel. ...

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the trade of a seamstress. School vacations were spent with relatives in the provincial capital of Moulins, where female relatives taught Coco to sew with more flourish than the nuns at the monastery were able to demonstrate. When Coco turned eighteen, she left the orphanage, and took up work for a local ...

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Added: 4/9/2011 09:55:46 AM
Submitted By: jessiejay
Category: Biographies
Type: Free Paper
Words: 249
Pages: 1

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