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Schoenebeck, Sybille (Bedford)

Scott, Ridley

sea bathing

Second Empire, France

Secret of the Medici

Segonzac, André de

Segonzac, Comte Jean de

Sem (Georges Goursat)

Sert, José Maria

Sert, Misia Edwards

as affected by Depression

as annoyed with Gabrielle’s philanthropy

and creation of Chanel N° 5,

decorating by

deserted by Sert

Diaghilev’s friendship with

drugs used by

Gabrielle influenced by

Gabrielle placed in apartment by

and Gabrielle’s affair with Stravinsky

memoirs of

salon acquired by

at Sorel’s party

sewing machines

sexual inclinations

Seyrig, Delphine

Shervashidze, Prince

shoulder pads

silk

Simpson, Wallis

Singer, Winnaretta

Six, Les

Sjorza, Countess

skirts

short

smart trousers

Smith, Pamela, Lady

Snow, Carmel

social hierarchies

Sokolova, Lydia (Hilda Munnigs)

Somme, Battle of

Sorel, Cécile

Soviet Union

Spain

Spears, Edward

Speer, Albert

Spiritualism

Stern, Herman

stock market crash (1929)

Stöhrer, Ute von

Stonyhurst College

Stravinsky, Catherine

Stravinsky, Igor

death of

Gabrielle’s affair with

Streitz, Robert

strikes in France

Stroheim, Erich von

Stülpnagel, Carl-Heinrich von

style, fashion vs.

Sullivan, Anne

suntans

surrealism

Swanson, Gloria

sweaters

Sweetinburgh, Thelma

swimsuits

Switzerland

Synarchist Empire Movement

Syndicat de la Couture

syphilis

Tagore, Rabindranath

Talmadge, Norma

Tatou, Audrey

Taylor, Elizabeth

Tehran Conference (1943)

Témoin, Le

Ten Commandments, The (film)

Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald)

10th Light Horse Regiment

Théâtre des Arts

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Theosophists

Time

Times, The (London)

Tonight or Never (film)

Toulemon, Elise (Caryathis)

Toulmin, Evelyn

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri

Train, Susan

Train Bleu

Train Bleu, Le (ballet)

Traviata, La (opera)

tweed

Tzara, Tristan

United States

in World War I,

Uriage, France

Uzanne, Octave

Vadim, Roger

Valentino

Valéry, Paul

Vallat, Xavier

Vanderbilt, Consuelo

Varennes, France

Vaufreland, Louis de

Vendôme

Venice, Italy

Verdun, Battle of

Verlaine, Paul

Versailles Conference (1919)

Vichy, France

Victoria, Grand Duchess

Victory Ball, Paris

Viezaux, Etienne de (St. Stephen)

Viggiano, Yvonne

Villa Larralde

Vilmorin, Louise de

Vionnet, Madeleine

Visconti, Luchino

Vivien, Renée

Vogue

Vreeland, Diana

Vuillard, Édouard

Wagner, Richard

waistlines

Wales, David Prince of, see Edward VIII, King of England

Warkowska, Madame

Waugh, Evelyn

Weber-Rosenkranz, Baroness

Wertheimer, Alain

Wertheimer, Gérard

Wertheimer, Jacques

Wertheimer, Paul

Wertheimer, Pierre

West, Mae

West, Shelagh

Westminster, Duke of, see Bend’Or

Wilhelm II, Kaiser

Williams, Harrison

Williams, Mona

women

bodies of

horse riding by

liberation of

in men’s clothes

practical outfits worn by

Women’s Wear Daily

Woolf, Virginia

World War I,

casualties of

French mutinies in

technology in

World War II,

Gabrielle’s escape from Paris in

Phony War in

Worth, Charles Frederick

Wyndham, Diana

Capel’ affair with

Gabrielle disliked by

Wyndham, Percy

youth

Yturbe, Miguel de

Zola, Emile

Zuylen, Egmont van

Zuylen, Maggie van

Zweig, Arnold

1. The vast chestnut forests seen from Ponteils, the mountainous Cevennes hamlet where Gabrielle’s paternal ancestors lived.

2. Gabrielle’s great-grandfather’s inn, “the Chanel.” Today, the shutters firmly shut, its stony bulk has an air of neglect.

3. The Aubazine convent-orphanage where Gabrielle lived for many years.

4. The earliest known photograph of Gabrielle, with Adrienne at Vichy c. 1904.

5. Etienne Balsan on military service, c. 1903, around the time Gabrielle met him.

6. Gabrielle, c. 1909. Tastes were changing; her angular “modern” beauty had become desirable.

7. The famed courtesan, Emilienne d’Alençon, Etienne Balsan’s lover when Gabrielle appeared on the scene.

8. Royallieu, where Gabrielle lived with Etienne as his mistress.

9. Arthur “Boy” Capel, c. 1910, who was to transform Gabrielle’s life.