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[[Overly Long Name|'''Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust''']] was a French novelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' (''In Search of Lost Time''; earlier translated as ''Remembrance of Things Past''). It was published in [[Long Runner|seven parts between 1913 and 1927]].
[[Marcel Proust|Proust]] was born in Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris' then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. His birth took place during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponds with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Much of ''In Search of Lost Time'' [[End of an Age|concerns the vast changes]], most particularly the decline of [[Blue Blood|the aristocracy]] and the rise of the middle classes that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the fin de siècle.
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