Proust
Americannoun
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Joseph Louis 1754–1826, French chemist.
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Marcel 1871–1922, French novelist.
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Joseph Louis (ʒozɛf lwi). 1754–1826, French chemist, who formulated the law of constant proportions
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Marcel (marsɛl). 1871–1922, French novelist whose long novel À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27) deals with the relationship of the narrator to themes such as art, time, memory, and society
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What good is Tolstoy or Marcel Proust to her?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
As Van Gogh had his sunflowers and Proust his madeleine, so Neil Diamond had a bottle of cheap Canadian booze.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
GERWIG: So he would have loved Proust Barbie!
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Proust had his teaspoons and his madeleines; if I had to elect one sensory item by which to remember my youth, it would have to be a sculptural, ludicrously fragrant splatter of dog waste.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
That every year, on her birthday, her father would present her with another puzzle and another novel, and she would read all of Jules Verne and all of Dumas and maybe even Balzac and Proust?
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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