Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugne Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel la recherche du temps perdu , published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors.

Proust was born in Auteuil at the home of his greatuncle onJuly 1871, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the FrancoPrussian War. His birth took place during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponded with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Much of In Search of Lost Time concerns the vast changes, most particularly the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the fin de sicle.

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