![]() Proust meets Count Robert de Montesquiou at a dinner given by Madeleine Lemaire. His favorites novelists are Anatole France and Pierre Loti his preferred poets are Charles Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny. Proust answers questions in a keepsake album about his tastes and preferences. Proust publishes in Le Banquet new Études (portraits of Mme Straus and Mme de Chevigné, models for the duchesse de Guermantes), and a polemic signed "Laurence," attacking L'Irréligion d'État and socialism. He begins to frequent her literary salon. Proust is introduced to Mme Arman de Caillavet and her lover Anatole France. In a letter written two years later to his mother, he refers to 1886 as "the year of Augustin Thierry." 1889 ![]() ![]() Proust reads l' Histoire de la conquête de l'Angleterre by Augustin Thierry, which inspires him to become a writer. Proust inscribes his tastes, etc., in a keepsake album ( Album de Confessions) belonging to Mlle Antoinette Faure, whose father will later be elected president of France. Marcel Proust, the elder son of Adrien Proust and Jeanne Weil Proust, is born in the fashionable Paris suburb of Auteuil. ![]()
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