He was born in Paris, he always lived there (moving seven times!), he died there.
In this life so ardent and so quickly broken, in the resulting work, the capital is a character in its own right, cited more than 570 times.
Mixing eras, entangling places, the writer evokes Paris from the beginning of the Second Empire until the 1920s.
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The house where Marcel Proust was born, at 96 rue La Fontaine, was destroyed during the reorganization of the district in 1896 with the opening of avenue Mozart.
After the unrest of the Commune, the family moved to Boulevard Malesherbes and enrolled Marcel in Lycée Condorcet (Jean Béraud,
La Sortie du Lycée Condorcet
) where he studied until the class of rhetoric, in 1889. His comrade Paul Baignères , passionate about art, introduced him to Vermeer while Jacques Bizet introduced him to the living room of his mother, Mrs. Straus, who had first married Georges Bizet then, after his death, the wealthy lawyer Émile Straus.
He will meet at…
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