Marcel Proust

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July 10, 1871. Famed author, born at Auteuil, France. He gained an international reputation for his 13-volume masterpiece, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). “Happiness,” he wrote in The Past Recaptured, “is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” Proust died Nov 19, 1922, at Paris, France.

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