Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. Wikipedia
Born: July 10, 1871, Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy, France
Died: November 18, 1922 (age 51 years), Paris, France
Influenced by: Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, and more
Parents: Jeanne Weill Proust and Achille Adrien Proust
Siblings: Robert Proust
Education: Lycée Condorcet
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