Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel At Danger’s Ebb When vigilance sleeps. Beware my friend, Thine enemy creeps. Born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel in 1883, Coco Chanel was one of seven children raised in Saumur, France. Her father was a street [See More]
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