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April 17, 2024
"Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History" by Professor Rhonda K. Garelick has been shortlisted for the French Heritage Society's inaugural French Heritage Literary Award. The award will recognize and honor a work of literary, scholarly or aesthetic distinction that illuminates for the general public either an important element of French cultural or historical patrimony (especially but not solely in the domains of architecture, décor, couture, gardening and the arts) or the considerable and noteworthy influence France, its citizens and its culture have had in shaping American history, thought and culture. The winner will be honored and awarded a $5,000 cash prize at a ceremony and dinner on Thursday, May 18, 2017.
"I am honored to be in this distinguished company and to have my work read by this esteemed jury," writes Garelick.
Garelick is Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences with a special joint appointment in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. She is a scholar of performance, fashion, literature, visual art, and cultural politics.
The five shortlisted books for the inaugural French Heritage Literary Award are: "Versailles and the American Revolution" by Valerie Bajou, "Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie- Antoinette" by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation" by Francois Furstenberg, "Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History" by Rhonda K. Garelick, and "The Other Paris" by Luc Sante.
The French Heritage Award's esteemed jury is comprised of: Laura Auricchio, Professor of Art History at Parsons School of Design; Tom Bishop, Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French Literature and the Director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture at NYU; Robert Couturier, acclaimed interior designer; Anne Poulet, Director Emerita of The Frick Collection; and Elaine Sciolino, contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times.
The French Heritage Society (FHS) is a non-profit American organization created in 1982 that includes 10 chapters in the US as well as one in France. Through various activities and educational programs, FHS is dedicated to the preservation, restoration and promotion of French heritage throughout the United States and France. The central mission of FHS is to ensure that the treasures of our shared French architectural and cultural heritage survive in order to inspire future generations to build, dream, and create.
