Molly Guinness

From Göring to Hemingway, via Coco Chanel – the dark glamour of the Paris Ritz at war

A review of The Hotel on Place Vendôme, by Tilar J. Mazzeo. A prism on the German occupation that gathers all of the old Paris icons under one roof

Coco Chanel (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty) 
issue 19 April 2014
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