Marcel Proust: A Biography

2.34 MARCEL PROUST which was composed mainly of Sorbonne professors with a large proportion of Protestants, Maurras founded the ...

THE DREYFUS CASE 235 graceful as a branch of hawthorn'. The incident is one of several which show that Proust was now beginning, ...

MARCEL PROUST play's evident failure. "The actors don't seem real enough, don't you agree, Madame?" he murmured, and escaped to ...

THE DREYFUS CASE 2.37 the speakers was aware that Marcel had already written, by any standards but his own, a 'marvellous novel' ...

MARCEL PROUST France, a selection from Montesquiou's Les Perles Rouges (a volume of sonnets on Versailles published on the follo ...

THE DREYFUS CASE 239 passion for her poetry played its part in the gradual liberation of his genius, that her friendship became ...

MARCEL PROUST to acquit Dreyfus would be to condemn their own superiors, were divided. On 9 September, by five votes to two, the ...

THE DREYFUS CASE beforehand in the chalet of her brother, Prince Constantin de Brancovan; but more often he would come much late ...

MARCEL PROUST de Chevilly and Vicomte Clement de Maugny. Maugny was staying in his father's ancient and gloomy Chateau de Lausen ...

THE DREYFUS CASE 243 that young Chefdebien was 'on the lake'; and after her departure Proust's letters to her are full of malici ...

MARCEL PROUST and me at Besan<;on'. The 9th was the day of the Rennes verdict and at the Brancovans' that evening, as Proust ...

THE DREYFUS CASE to kiss Albertine-who does indeed ring the bell-in her bed in the Grand Hotel at Balbec. Perhaps the incident a ...

MARCEL PROUST chauffeurs. The motor-car, a few years later-such was the in- direct consequence of the visit to Coppet-was to bec ...

THE DREYFUS CASE 147 Proust wrote in alarm to his mother, adding 'Be very cautious if you talk about any matrimonial desires for ...

MARCEL PROUST cancelled the order for his degradation^1 ; on the 21st General de Galliffet announced: 'The incident is closed'; ...

THE DREYFUS CASE 249 became the lover of the royalist Mme Porges (although she was born a W odianer and came from Vienna) that h ...

2.50 MARCEL PROUST Way. Proust saw his hosts stripped of the poetry with which he himself had clothed them: a duchess was only a ...

THE DREYFUS CASE of endless discoveries always round the next corner, of sun, air and springtime. The bud contains the fruit, an ...

2.52 MARCEL PROUST M. Boissard of M. de Norpois, the Vicomte de Lomperolles of both Charlus (modelled solely on Baron Doasan wit ...

THE DREYFUS CASE Finaly), she is jealously guarded by an aunt, as was Albertine by Mme Bontemps, and she thwarts his attempt to ...