Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was born in Paris, in the Auteuil district, on 10 July 1871, the son of the epidemiologist physician Adrien Proust and of Jeanne Weil, who came from a Jewish family. Subject from childhood to severe asthma attacks, he was a pupil at the Lycée Condorcet, frequented the salons and took sides in the Dreyfus affair. He translated John Ruskin with the help of his mother. Settled at the end of 1906 on boulevard Haussmann, in an apartment with cork-lined walls, he lived there more and more by night and died in Paris on 18 November 1922.

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• NovelIn Search of Lost TimeÀ la recherche du temps perduMarcel Proust · 1913LiteraturePublic domain