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Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris love in the time of cholera kindle the intensity of political engagementAuthor Contributor(s): Weber, Caroline Publisher: Vintage Date: 11 26 2019 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A brilliant look at turn of the century Paris through the first in depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to lifea world of culture, glamour and privilege. The Wall Street Journal Genevive Halvy Bizet