Swann’s Way - In Search of Lost Time - Volume I

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was born on July 10th 1871 in the district of Auteuil in Paris, two months after the formal end of the Franco-Prussian War. Proust was brought up in his father's Catholic faith and baptised on 5th August 1871, at the church of Saint-Louis d'Antin. Attacks of asthma from childhood resulted in poor health and together with a lack of drive and self-disclipine meant his progress to the status of literary giant was halting and only really achieved in middle