My (half) great grand-aunt (i.e. wife of my gt-gran's half-brother) hosted a literary/artistic salon in turn of 19th/20th C. Paris. Proust was a habitué of her soirées. He modelled a character in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu on her. Pic of her on cover of edition of Vol 5: La Prisonnière.
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I remember him, back in the day... Swanning around... That was just his Way.