Perhaps the world's most famous resting place, Pere Lachaise is the home of Marcel Proust and Oscar Wilde, among scores of other famous people buried here. Singer and 'poet' Jim Morrison is, of course, famously six feet under in this verdant (郁郁葱葱的), ambient cemetery as well. ...
Swann was one of the most faithful attendants at the Sunday luncheons given by the Duc de X——, whose father and uncle had been among our most prominent statesmen in the reign of Louis Philippe. Now my grandfather was curious to learn all the little details which might help him to ...
CNRS et École normale supérieure, Paris), est spécialiste de l’œuvre de Marcel Proust. Elle a été la rédactrice duBulletin d’informations proustiennes(Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2010-2022), et pilote l’éd...
He used to take her back as far as the door of her little house in the Rue La Pérouse, behind the Arc de Triomphe. And it was perhaps on this account, and so as not to demand the monopoly of her favours, that he sacrificed the pleasure (not so essential to his well-b...
The ‘coherence’ of these ideas would have nonplussed even Hobbes, though perhaps not Marcel Proust who would have seen in it a case of his “madeleine”à rebours.【Proust,La Fugitiveon the chain of association began with the title “Le secret” of a melody by Fauré & “le nom de ...
My grooming guruis Elodie atMichel K Paris, which is on Rue des Mathurins in the 8th arrondissement. I have been going there for 10 years, and I discovered it by chance – it was the hairdresser beside the tailor where I used to spend all my money when I was a lawyer. Apparently, ...
'I don't say that Odette isn't fond of us, but anything that we may say to her counts for very little beside what Swann might say.' Oh, mercy, there's the conductor stopping for me; here have I been chatting away to you, and would have gone right past the Rue Bonapar...
"Oh, so she lives in the Rue La Pérouse. It's attractive; I like that street; it's so sombre." "Indeed it isn't. You can't have been in it for a long time; it's not at all sombre now; they're beginning to build all round there." When Swann did finally introdu...
imagining that the pleasure which the casual sight of them had given him would instinctively be felt, also, by her, and would increase her affection for himself; and he would order them to be taken at once to the Rue La pérouse, so as to accelerate the moment in which, as ...