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"   The cover of Picardie&amp;#039;s biography.   Yesterday, Chanel hosted a luncheon in honor of Justine Picardie&amp;#039;s book, Chanel\u2014Her Life. The food was great, but the stories were spectacular. From the minute Picardie started work on the biography (her fifth book) weird things started to happen, so weird that Chanel&amp;#039;s niece (or grand-daughter?) insisted that Mademoiselle was involved. Picardie&amp;#039;s research took her from the abbey in which Chanel grew up to the Scottish village in which she fished with Winston Churchill, but in between she spent her fair share of time in Paris, both at 31 Rue Cambon (where the house of Chanel generously let her write) and the Ritz, where Coco Chanel lived for long stretches of time. The hotel boasts a Coco Chanel suite\u2014it&amp;#039;s one of the most expensive and luxurious rooms right at the front of the hotel\u2014but the designer actually spent her nights in a much smaller room on the top floor overlooking Rue Cambon. One night, while staying over, Picardie finally stopped working in the early hours of the morning. She switched off the lights and went to bed. Then a lightbulb flew out of the sconce on the wall. Then the lights started flashing on and off. Then, once that stopped, the bedside lamp turned on. So fine, Picardie thought, I&amp;#039;ll get back to work. As for the other stories, they&amp;#039;re off the record\u2014for now. By the time we&amp;#039;d finished munching on petite Madelines I think we&amp;#039;d convinced Picardie to spend her next book chronicling the ways in which Chanel changed her own life...Stay tuned! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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