Word: scheik
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Marie Scheikévitch is the daughter of a wealty Russian art collectorwho settled in Paris nea the end of the 19th Century. Time Past begins with a memory of the great catastrophe at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, when thousands of the common people were trampled to death, includes a brief account of Marie Scheikévitch's marriage and divorce, but is memorable for its portraits of celebrities, particularly that of Marcel Proust. Marie Scheikévitch knew Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant...
...Marie Scheikévitch does not touch on the mysteries of his personality, hbut the individual she portrays, unlink the one who figures in most reminiscences of Proust, might conceivably have been written Remembrance of Things Past...
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