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Evelyne Bloch-Dano

Madame Proust

A Biography

272 pages, 26 halftones, 5 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2007

Cloth $27.50

ISBN: 9780226056425   Published August 2007

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Translator’s note
      
       Part One

1 A Daughter to Marry
2 Monsieur Proust and Mademoiselle Weil
3 Very French Israelites
4 At number 40 bis
5 Mother and Daughter

       Part Two

6 A Change of Regime
7 Mother and Son
8 Summers at Auteuil
9 The Goodnight Kiss
10 A Small World
11 Mistress of the House
12 The Sickly Child
13 Taking the Waters
14 A Model Couple
15 From Treble to Bass
16 A Woman of Forty
17 Vergiss mein nicht

        Part Three

18 A Woman in Black at the Beach
19 The Broken Glass
20 On Guard!
21 The Soul of Venice
22 Jeanne’s Address Book
23 A Wedding and a Funeral
24 La Vie à Deux

Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Appendixes
        1. Questionnaire Sent to the Jewish Elite in 1806
        2. Napoleon and the Central Consistory
 
Genealogical Charts
        The Weil Family
        The Berncastel Family
        Karl Marx and Marcel Proust

Notes

Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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