Marcel Proust: A Biography

MARCEL PROUST LA JEUNESSE. Yes, but you get a lot more in the Almanac Hachette, and it only costs 2 francs 50. PROUST (laughing ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 2.1) Castellane (Boni's father) and Comte Louis de Turenne, original ofBabal de Breaute. The wi ...

216 MARCEL PROUST Proust was among the wee thousand guests at Boni de Castel- lane's famous ban in the Bois de Boulogne on 2 Jul ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL 217 his wife's grandfather, 'who had made that enormous fortune out of cereals and meat-pastes' ...

~18 MARCEL PROUST male travesty; although Mety does not seem to have been among these, his association with her is doubtless ano ...

THE EARLY YEARS OF JEAN SANTEUIL ZI9 showing off your knowledge in front of Proust." One evening Reynaldo took Proust, whose int ...

no MARCEL PROUST which his family called 'the autographs'. "Marcel Proust's the Devil Himself," he would remark with amused awe, ...

Chapter 1.3 THE DREYFUS CASE O N 26 September 1894 Mme Bastian, an elderly charwoman at the German Embassy in Paris, had deliver ...

MARCEL PROUST not imposing the death-sentence. Even Major Picquart, the future champion of Dreyfus, disliked Jews; he was presen ...

THE DREYFUS CASE :U3 Suddenly, in November 1897, the Affair exploded. On the 9th Dreyfus's brother Mathieu published facsimiles ...

MARCEL PROUST Monet (Elstir himself!) joined in.l By the end of the month the petition numbered three thousand names, and was at ...

THE DREYFUS CASE 225 difficulty he managed to smuggle a copy of Les Plaisirs et les Jours to Picquart's cell at Mont-Valerien; t ...

MARCEL PROUST reply but the very truth, he reminded Proust of Darlu; in his habits of reading and meditation he recalled Proust' ...

THE DREYFUS CASE for he could not foresee that his Dreyfusism would not mean social death, any more than he could have foreseen ...

n8 MARCEL PROUST Lemaitre, who henceforth confined himself to the nationalist salon of his mistress the Comtesse de Loynes, and ...

THE DREYFUS CASE Jews?" by a hostess who was gradually eliminating hers, she grandly replied: "I'm keeping them on!" The Affair, ...

230 MARCEL PROUST but it will sound like thunder!"-until hostile journalists began to call him not Monsieur France but Monsieur ...

THE DREYFUS CASE :/.31 on the third day, when she was pronounced out of danger, her first words were a string of stammered witti ...

2)2 MARCEL PROUST been belief in what they wished to believe, furiously resigned on the spot. Esterhazy, seeing the game was up, ...

THE DREYFUS CASE 2.33 Benna, Rejane and Sarah Bernhardt. Every night from his cell in Cherche-Midi prison Picquart could hear ba ...