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Balsan noticed Coco Chanel in Moulins (Allier) and became her lover. They remained friends through life. In 1909, when Chanel settled in Paris, he lent her his bachelor flat on the ground floor, 160 Boulevard Malesherbes, and helped her to open a boutique in Deauville. He introduced her into good Parisian society.
She waited for him to marry her, and he never obliged.
