Marcel Proust
1871–1922 · novelist · France
Arts and ideas14 years old in 1885
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1871
- 18743 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 18754 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188615 years oldZola publishes L'Œuvre
- 189827 years oldZola publishes “J'accuse…!”
- 192251 years oldDies
