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Marcel Proust - Early life and education

Who were Marcel Proust’s parents?

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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).

Marcel Proust was the son of Adrien Proust, an eminent physician of provincial French Catholic descent, and Jeanne (Weil) Proust, who came from a wealthy Jewish family.1