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6 Baronne de la Grange, Open House in Flanders, August 8, 1915, p. 143.
7 Morand, Allure, p. 39.
8 Galante, p. 38.
9 Ibid., p. 37.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid., p. 39.
12 Ibid.
13 Morand, Allure, p. 42.
CHAPTER 12: The War Bans the Bizarre
1 Paul Morand, The Allure of Chanel, p. 38.
2 Letter from “the General Officer, Commander in Chief, the British Army in France” to “the Secretary, War Office, London,” March 20, 1916, National Archives, Kew.
3 C. E. Callwell, Sir Henry Wilson: His Life and Diaries, vol. I, p. 205.
4 Morand, Allure, p. 42.
5 Max Egremont, Under Two Flags, p. 27. This admirable biography was instructive in my understanding of what Arthur Capel’s work as a liaison officer would have been like. Spears’s comments on Arthur (from Spears’s diaries in Colonel Anthony Aylmer’s collection) were another vital step in discovering Arthur’s life.
6 Cahiers André Gide, vol. VIII, p. 214, J. E. Blanche to André Gide, February 15, 1917.
7 Charles Roux, Chanel, p. 162, and John Pomian, J. Retinger: Memoirs of an Eminence Grise, p. 35.
8 Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau, p. 184.
9 Sjeng Scheijen, Diaghilev, p. 323.
10 Mary Davis, Classic Chic, p. 117.
11 Scheijen, p. 331.
12 Davis, p. 117.
13 Ibid., pp. 128–29.
CHAPTER 13: Remember That You’re a Woman
1 Charles Roux, Chanel, p. 164.
2 Robert Fizdale and Arthur Gold, The Life of Misia Sert, p. 198.
3 Ibid., p. 196.
4 Ibid., p. 202.
5 Ibid., p. 197.
6 Paul Morand, Lewis et Irène, p. 144.
7 Ibid., p. 135.
8 Paul Morand, The Allure of Chanel, p. 143.
9 Morand, Lewis et Irène, p. 142.
10 Sir Jeremy Hutchinson in interview with author, September 2008.
11 Christopher Osborn in interview with author, September 2008.
12 Arthur Capel’s correspondence, Christopher Osborn. These letters proved invaluable in “reading” Arthur and the relationships with Diana and Gabrielle.
13 Ibid.
14 Christopher Osborn, in interview with author, June 2009.
15 Arthur Capel correspondence, Christopher Osborn.
16 Ibid.
17 Max Egremont, Under Two Flags, p. 66.
18 Michelle Maurois, Déchirez cette lettre, p. 125.
19 Edward Stanley, Paris 1918: The War Diary of the British Ambassador, May 29, 1918, p. 25.
20 Georges Bernstein-Gruber, Bernstein le magnifique, p. 165.
21 Arthur Capel, What Will Tomorrow Be Made Of?, p. 79.
22 Ibid., pp. 79–80.
23 Ibid., p. 80.
24 Maurois, p. 160.
25 Morand, Allure, p. 43.
CHAPTER 14 : Alone
1 Paul Morand, Lewis et Irène, p. 140.
2 Paul Morand, The Allure of Chanel, p. 37.
3 Capel correspondence, Christopher Osborn.
4 The Papers of Alfred Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich), DUFC 12/8, July 5, 1918, Churchill Archives Center, Cambridge.
5 Ibid.
6 Scotland’s People website, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
7 Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, Paris 1918: The War Diary of the British Ambassador, August 11, 1918, pp. 133–34.
8 Georges Bernstein-Gruber, Bernstein le magnifique, p. 166.
9 Benquet Agency letters.
10 Earl of Derby, p. 161, August 22, 1918.
11 Michelle Maurois, Déchirez cette lettre, p. 15.
12 Ibid., p. 160.
13 Liane de Pougy, My Blue Notebooks, p. 54.
14 Lady d’Abernon, Red Cross and Berlin Embassy, 1915–1926: Extracts from the Diaries of Viscountess d’Abernon, November 28, 1918, p. 56. My thanks here to Lady Polly Feversham.
15 Christopher Osborn in interview with author.
16 Ibid.
17 Viscount Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, April 9, 1918, October 29, 1918, and November 5, 1918. The notion that Duff Cooper and Diana Capel had an affair (Justine Picardie, Coco Chanel, p. 88) is based on a misreading of these diaries.
18 Ibid., November 11, 1919.
19 Phillip Norcross Gross, Oscar Edward Fleming’s nephew, has been helpful with new information on Antoinette Fleming née Chanel.
20 Norwich, December 23, 1919. These diary entries proved crucial in the last piece of the Arthur Capel/Diana Capel/Chanel puzzle.
21 Axel Madsen, Chanel: A Woman of Her Own, p. 99.
22 Norwich, January 21, 1920.
23 Charles Roux, Chanel, p. 178.
24 Stonyhurst Magazine and Le Gaulois, January 2, 1920.
25 Capel correspondence,