Gabrielle would assert that her father came to see her after one year, lied to her, and told her he'd come back and take her away from the "aunts," that they would be a family again and have a house together. In reality she never saw him again, She would claim she bore no grudge against him, saying she knew she could expect nothing from him. To hols her head high, however, she told classmates her father was seeking his fortune in America and would come and fetch her when he was rich.
At Aubazine, Gabrielle insisted she had a father, that he was sending money.
Later in life, when Coco Chanel told people she was six , not eleven, when her mother died, when she dropped Julie and the brothers from her story and turned her father into a not-yet-thirty-year-old widower, her attitude toward him and what had happened to her was equivocal."He had a chance to remake his life, ...Why should he worry about his two daughters?... I woud have done the same thing. I don't think that before thirty anyone can stay faithful to things like that." 引自第12页