Coco Chanel: A Complete Life from Beginning to the End

By History Hub

History Hub presents a complete biography of Coco Chanel from beginning to end, whose remarkable story impacts our lives even today. 

Like any great legend, the history of fashion designer Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, also known as "Coco Chanel," is marked by poverty, abandonment, love, genius, and fame, unveiling what lies beneath the glossy surface of a mythic fashion icon. Chanel's life story begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl in a dark fairy tale. Unveiling remarkable new details about Chanel's early years in a convent orphanage and her flight into unconventional adulthood, all these struggles didn't stop her from creating the essential fashion house in history. Chanel was a visionary. She is famous for her timeless and classic designs, trademark suits, and little black dresses. She managed to interpret the oppression that women felt in time, and she was there when the crazy 1920s exploded.

She created the most crucial fashion house in history. The House of Chanel stands at 31 Rue Cambon, a shrine to its dead creator, yet also a living, thriving temple of twenty-first-century fashion, the destination for pilgrims who travel here from all around the world. Coco Chanel may be dead, but her legacy lives on.


Discover in this short yet concise biography the remarkable story of a life who impacted future generations. This book also contains 30 questions for an in-depth discussion into the life of Coco Chanel. 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Ched
• Release date: Aug 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220840668

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Part One: Editor Foreword

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Chapter One: A Life from Beginning to End

Birth & Early Childhood

On the 19th of August 1883, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, also known as Coco Chanel, was born at a hospice in Saumur, a market town on the Loire River in France. Jeanne DeVille was 20, and Henri-Albert Chanel was 28 and listed as a merchant on her birth certificate. Upon Chanel's delivery, the official registry entered her surname as Chasnel probably due to a clerical error, as there was no one to supervise the writing of her records. Jeanne was too unwell to attend the registration, and Albert was traveling.To legally correct her name, she would have to expose herself that she was born in a poorhouse hospice; therefore, she went to her grave as  Gabrielle Chasnel. When her parents were not married yet, she had a daughter, Julia, born on the 11th of September 1882, less than a year before. The