Where was Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel born?
Coco Chanel
Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born in 1883 to mother, Eugénie Jeanne Devolle—known as Jeanne—a laundrywoman, in the charity hospital run by the Sisters of Providence (a poorhouse) in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France.[7]:14[8] She was Jeanne's second child with Albert Chanel; the first, Julia, was born less than a year earlier.[8] Albert Chanel was an itinerant street vendor who peddled work clothes and undergarments,[9]:27 living a nomadic life, traveling to and from market towns. The family resided in rundown lodgings. In 1884, he married Jeanne Devolle,[7]:16 persuaded to do so by her family who had "united, effectively, to pay Albert to marry her."[7]:16