In a splendid exhibition, the Carnavalet Museum addresses the capital's importance, real or recreated, in the writer's work.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Le Pont de l’Europe. Gare Saint-Lazare (detail), 1877, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.
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The mere mention of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) evokes a procession of the real and fictional figures who appeared during his life (the painter Jean Béraud, the actress Réjane, the poet Anna de Noailles) or were invented for his work (Charles Swann, Oriane de Guermantes, Baron de Charlus, Madame Verdurin). The former abundantly contributed to the creation of the latter in his novels. All of them shared the fact that they lived in the same setting: Paris , where the writer spent his entire life. To celebrate the…
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