Paul Morand was born in Paris in 1888 and after studying at the Ecole des Science Politiques he joined the diplomatic corps, serving in London, Rome, Berne and Bucharest. His first collection of stories Tendres Stocks (1921), had an introduction by his friend Marcel Proust. In a long and busy life, he found time to write poetry, novels, short stories and travel books. Morand was made a member of the Academie Francaise in 1963. He was married to the Romanian princess Hélène Soutzo, and he died in 1976 the year the first edition of The Allure of Chanel was published in Paris.
"It's an interesting memoir because it's all about what she thinks not what she did" David Patrick Columbia The New York Social Diary; "I carefully read the book by Paul Morand, The Allure of Chanel, one of the authors who knew best how to express the incredible personality of Mademoiselle" Anne Fontaine, director of "Coco avant Chanel"; "Reads beautifully ... this enchanting book is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco... written in her voice and in her words" The Spectator; "Paul Morand recaptures a WWII-era conversation between the author and the fashion icon" Publisher's Weekly; "Without a doubt the best French writer of the 20th century" Philippe Sollers; "Morand was the all-round aesthete" Nicholas Lezard The Guardian
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