Summary of Hal Vaughan's Sleeping with the Enemy

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#1 Chanel, who would become the epitome of French chic, was born in 1883. She was descended from a tribe of peasants who lived on the edge of a chestnut forest in the Cévennes and were driven by the blight to become itinerant peddlers.

#2 Chanel’s life was changed when she met Étienne Balsan, a rich ex-cavalry officer, who became her paramour. She put her needle, thread, and cafe coquetry aside to live with him and his friends in the forest of Compiègne.

#3 Chanel’s life changed in the space of a few months. She had met and fallen in love with Étienne Balsan, a wealthy industrialist who had supplied uniforms to the French army. She had developed solid equestrian skills and taught herself how to manage the stables.

#4 In 1908, Chanel fell in love with Arthur Capel, Balsan’s riding partner and friend. Capel helped Chanel launch a business making ladies’ hats. They were now soul mates.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822537316

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Insights on Hal Vaughan's Sleeping with the Enemy

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Chanel, who would become the epitome of French chic, was born in 1883. She was descended from a tribe of peasants who lived on the edge of a chestnut forest in the Cévennes and were driven by the blight to become itinerant peddlers.

#2

Chanel’s life was changed when she met Étienne Balsan, a rich ex-cavalry officer, who became her paramour. She put her needle, thread, and cafe coquetry aside to live with him and his friends in the forest of Compiègne.

#3

Chanel’s life changed in the space of a few months. She had met and fallen in love with Étienne Balsan, a wealthy industrialist who had supplied uniforms to the French army. She had developed solid equestrian skills and taught herself how to manage the stables.

#4

In 1908, Chanel fell in love with Arthur Capel, Balsan’s riding partner and friend. Capel helped Chanel launch a business making ladies’ hats. They were now soul mates.

#5

Chanel, who was Boy Capel’s lover and pal for 11 years, acquired enormous wealth in 1918. She began building the House of Chanel into a hallmark of French style, refinement, and craftsmanship.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Marie Sophie Olga Zénaïde Godebska, known as Misia, was a Frenchwoman who was exiled to a Catholic convent at age ten. She escaped to Victorian London at age eighteen and began a series of affairs with older men. She married Thadée Natanson in Paris, and they moved to Belgium where she inherited a large sum of money.

#2

Misia was not the princess drawn by Proust. In her three marriages,