Word: verdurin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better fitted to recount the fantastic, brilliant history of the post-war decade in Paris than Maurice Sachs. As the grandson of Bizet, composer of "Carmen," the grandson of Georges Sachs, the great friend of Anatole France and Briand, and of the Madame Straus Proust immortalized as Madame Verdurin, he was brought up among literary people whose reputations were already established. And later, as the protege of Cocteau, Maritain, and Max Jacob, he knew all that world of genius and bohemianism, so strange in its contradictions and all comprehending unity...
...unevenness of two stones in the Prince de Guermantes courtyard, for instance, brings back to him the whole atmosphere of Venice, where he had stopped on stones of the same unevenness, and of his early years. In contrast to these reminiscences are the facts of the present. Mme. Verdurin has become the Princess de Guermantes, Gilberte is fat and has a daughter grown up, Bloch is in society, and the Duchess de Guermantes is completely...