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    moralist". Doudan was read by Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Marie Guyau, and Marcel Proust, among others. Pasteur gave a certain notoriety, quoting it in his Speech...
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  • who said that "it is language that speaks." He also recognized Marcel Proust as being "concerned with the task of inexorably blurring ... the relation...
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    birthplace of Fauvism, Cubism and abstract art, and authors such as Marcel Proust were exploring new approaches to literature. During the First World War...
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    was 1,191. Writer Marcel Proust adopted its name for the origin of the Guermantes family in À la recherche du temps perdu. Proust Scholar Joshua Landy points...
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  • with a casino and numerous festivals, as well as a city of culture (Marcel Proust, Marguerite Duras, Raymond Savignac, etc.). Numerous celebrities own vacation...
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    parallel he established, in Céline seul, between Celine and Proust, in Le sexe de Proust (Gallimard / L'infini 1994), a book length essay in which he...
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  • broadcast. Series have been made about Michel de Montaigne (2012), Marcel Proust (2013), Charles Baudelaire (2014), Victor Hugo (2015), Niccolò Machiavelli...
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    and eventually Toulon harbour. He died in 1736, after having written to Fleury to ask Louis XV to support his family. From 1720 to 1721, Duguay-Trouin...
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    troops of Henry I of France back into the sea in 1058. According to Marcel Proust's biographer George D. Painter: But the modern Cabourg began in 1853 with...
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    Demont, Virginie Demont-Breton, Octave Jahyer [fr], Henri Pille, Tony Robert-Fleury, and François Thévenot; the painter Edmond Yon [fr], in whose garden at...
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