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October 05, 2009: Coco Chanel's Library
"Many of the rare books that once filled the bookcase belonged to another suitor, Pierre Reverdy. As for Hugh Grosvenor, the 2nd Duke of Westminster, he was perhaps the raison d’être for her collection of objects with wheat motifs—“a symbol of fecundity because she wanted to have a child (and heir for the duke),” suggests Clermont-Tonnerre."
