Hal Vaughan Vintage Books 2012
Despite her age she sparkles; she is the only volcano in the Auvergne that is not extinct... the most brilliant, the most imperious, the most brilliantly insufferable woman that ever was.
Prologue
p.64-65
...Dinklage played at the casino and dined with Aldous and Maria Huxley. "There were Huxley picnics at sundown on beach or olive grove or cliff... we ate fried rabbit, zucchini flowers, and drank jugs of iced punch- white wine, lemon, rum- made by Aldous himself."
p. 69
One Summer day in 1930 in Monte Carlo, Grand Duke Dmitri introduced Chanel to Samuel Goldwyn, who wanted her to design clothes for his stars- Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, and Gloria Swanson. At the height of the American economic depression, with 13 million citizens out of work, Goldwyn offered Chanel a million dollars (about $14 million in today's money) if she would spend a few weeks in Hollywood.
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