ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe author and publishers wish to express their grateful appreciation to
the owners of copyright in the illustrations. These include Princesse
Marthe Bibesco, Mr Miron Grindea, Monsieur Pierre Cailler of Geneva,
publisher of Marcel Proust: Documents Iconographiques by George
Cattaui(I956), Monsieur P. GageyofIlliers, the BibliothequeNationale,
the Mante-Proust Collection and the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
They also wish to thank the authors, copyright-owners and pub-
lishers of the works used or quoted. As stated in the original Preface,
only published sources have been used, and these are fully listed and
cited in the Bibliography and References to Sources.