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Books to Read This Holiday Season

As the holidays roll around, you might have a little bit more time to read and fully immerse yourself in a great story.

This article gathers in one place the best books on Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, whether it is a biography, a novel, a fashion history book or a Second World War book. Here is a top five list of great Chanel books to read at Christmas time.

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Chanel’s Riviera by Anne de Courcy

Anne de Courcy states in her prologue that her book is neither a biography of Coco Chanel nor a history of the Riviera, as both themes have been explored in multiple books. The author just intended to tell the story of the fourteen years when Chanel summered on the Riviera.

The book begins with the story of her affair with and love for the Duke of Westminster, which came to an end in 1930.

The book tells us why Chanel decided to buy a villa that would be her only real home and how she spent h