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Louis Vuitton, l'audacieux (English edition)

By: Caroline Bongrand
Narrated by: Jennifer Connelly
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Louis Vuitton was just thirteen years old, when he left the family mill to escape his stepmother. In Paris, he found work with Maréchal, the most prestigious box-maker and packer in Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

Caroline Bongrand's vivid account relates the rise of this daring young man, a virtuoso, visionary craftsman in a capital city transformed by Haussmann. When Eugénie de Montijo became Empress of France, she continued to enlist the services of her favorite packer, with whom she developed a sincere, lasting friendship.

After setting up his own business in 1854, benefiting from the splendor of France's Second Empire, Louis Vuitton continually innovated to design trunks specially for the most extravagant clothes and the most exotic journeys, turning his own life into an epic tale.
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Simply and amazing and deeply inspiring story! The reader is lovely and makes the story su much more enjoyable. Really pleased to have purchased this book. Learnt a lot aswell, very interesting specially in the context of history in France.

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