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　　Personal life and early career

　　It was at Moulins that Chanel met a young, French, ex-cavalry officer, and wealthy textile heir tienne Balsan. At age twenty-three, Chanel became Balsans mistress and for the next three years lived with him in his chateau Royallieu near Compigne, an area known for its wooded equestrian paths and the hunting life. It was a life style of self-indulgence, Balsans wealth and leisure allowing the cultivation of a social set who reveled in partying and the gratification of human appetites with all the implied accompanying decadence. Balsan lavished Chanel with the beauties of the rich life diamonds, dresses, and pearls. It was while living with Balsan that Chanel began designing hats, initially as a diversion that evolved into a commercial enterprise. Biographer Justine Picardie, in her 2010 study Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life , suggests that the fashion designers nephew, Andr Palasse, supposedly the only child of her sister Julia- Berthe who had committed suicide, actually was Chanels child by Balsan.

　　Caricature by Sem of Chanel dancing with Boy Capel, 1913.

　　In 1908 Chanel began an affair with one of Balsans friends, Captain Arthur Edward Boy Capel. In later years Chanel reminisced of this time in her life: two gentlemen were outbidding for my hot little body. Capel, a wealthy member of the English upper-class, installed Chanel in an apartment in Paris and financed Chanels first shops. It is said Capels own sartorial style influenced the conception of the Chanel look. The bottle design for Chanel No. 5 had two probable origins, both attributable to the sophisticated design sensibilities of Capel.