Cover  Eliane Bonabel
Text  Jean Cocteau (3 pages)

"... Marcelle Chaumont, in full possession of his faculties, opened his own home a few months later, at 19, avenue George V. The first hard times: the models are created in a small building of 10 square which Petrarch is no longer heated. The collection is a success, Françoise Rosay, Danielle Darrieux come by bicycle. Aware that high fashion is doomed to extinction, it creates the first ray of ready-to-wear before the letter to the Bon Marché. The Chambre Syndicale opposes and then ask a friend, Juliette Verneuil, to be his nominee. Declined the large collection, the models appeal but are still too expensive. Applauded by Colette, who wrote to celebrate the initiative Marcelle Chaumont, Juliette Verneuil does not take off. In 1953, at the age of 62, a stroke forced him to close his house. "