"She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does."
Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for In Search of Lost Time, one of the major works of modern literature. Born in Auteuil near Paris on 1871-07-10, he developed an introspective narrative style that reshaped twentieth-century fiction. He died in Paris on 1922-11-18.