French novelist, whose novel sequence
A la recherche du temps perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, blends memory, invention, and psychological study of the human response to time passing. It has been almost immeasurably influential.
Milestones
10 July 1871 MP, French novelist, was born in
Auteuil, a suburb of
Paris.

18 November 1922 MP, French novelist, died in
Paris.
