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What happens to Albertine after she leaves the narrator in In Search of Lost Time?

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Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera. — Marcel Proust French author Marcel Proust wrote what is considered one of the supreme achievements of modern fiction, the seven-part autobiographical novel *À la recherche du temps perdu* (1913–27; *In Search of Lost Time*).

After Albertine leaves the narrator in In Search of Lost Time, she travels to Touraine to escape his obsessive possessiveness and jealousy. Following her departure, the narrator, unable to cope with her absence, writes to her to beg for her return.1

Ultimately, the narrator receives a letter from Albertine’s aunt, which informs him that Albertine has died after suffering an accidental fall from a horse.1