Proust
Americannoun
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Joseph Louis 1754–1826, French chemist.
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Marcel 1871–1922, French novelist.
noun
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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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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
For him, pinball games unlock memories, much as the madeleine did for Proust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
GERWIG: So he would have loved Proust Barbie!
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Mr. Tuong’s interests were eclectic and he said he liked challenges, taking on difficult writers like Proust, Nabokov, Camus, Sartre, Emily Brontë, Céline, Chekhov, Murakami, Günter Grass and Tolstoy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
I was looking for the tomb of a famous writer—Marcel Proust, I think, or maybe George Sand.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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