Garches

Garches Residential suburb southwest of Paris, just west of Boulogne and Saint Cloud, in the broad curve of land formed by the Seine, and at the top of a substantial hill, which gives many of the residents sweeping views out over the Parisian »valley.« At the end of the 19th century Garches was still a farming community, but soon beautiful villas were built, belonging to wealthy Parisians, among whom Gabrielle »Coco« Chanel (1883–1971), in her villa »Bel Respiro,« where Stravinsky (1882–1971)…