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02778aam a2200325 a 4500 001 FD1B41EE687411ECB4C74B9543ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211229010015 008 210525b2021 xx || |000 ||eng 020 $a 1799956415 020 $a 9781799956419 040 $d SILO 100 $a Ewen, Pamela $e author 245 $a Queen of Paris $h [book] $c Pamela Binnings Ewen 264 1 $a Ashland, OH $b Blackstone Publishing $c 2021 300 $a 419p $b softbound 520 $a Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style--the iconic little black dress--and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII--as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files. Coco Chanel could be cheerful, lighthearted, and generous; she also could be ruthless, manipulative, even cruel. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Elysees, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, Chanel wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the United States with the confidential formula for Chanel No. 5. Distrustful of his intentions to set up production on the outskirts of New York City, Chanel fights to seize ownership. The House of Chanel shall not fall. While Chanel struggles to keep her livelihood intact, Paris sinks under the iron fist of German rule. Chanel--a woman made of sparkling granite--will do anything to survive. She will even agree to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect her darkest secrets. When she is covertly recruited by Germany to spy for the Reich, she becomes Agent F-7124, code name: Westminster. But why? And to what lengths will she go to keep her stormy past from haunting her future? 600 $a Chanel, Coco $d 1883-1971 $v Fiction 650 4 $a Fashion design $v Fiction 650 4 $a Women spies $v Fiction 650 4 $a Fascism $v Fiction 650 4 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Fiction 650 4 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Paris (France) $v Fiction 651 $a France $x History $y German occupation, 1940-1945 $v Fiction 651 4 $a Paris (France) $x History $v Fiction 655 4 $a Biographical fiction 655 4 $a Historical fiction 941 $a 1 952 $l VCPD034 $d 20211229010401.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FD1B41EE687411ECB4C74B9543ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search