Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Marcel Proust
Born: July 10, 1871
Died: November 18, 1922 (aged 51)
Bio: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu, published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
Known for:
- In Search of Lost Time (1913)
- Swann's Way (1913)
- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919)
- Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)
- Les plaisirs et les jours (1896)
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