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Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist most widely known for his monumental book à la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; previously translated as Remembrance of Things Past), publicized in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors of all time. Proust was created in Auteuil (the south-western sector of Paris' then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the house of his great-uncle on 10 July 1871, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian Conflict. His birth occurred during the violence that encircled the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his years as a child corresponded with the consolidation of the People from france Third Republic. A lot of In Search of Lost Time concerns the huge changes, most specially the decrease of the aristocracy and the go up of the middle classes that occurred in France through the Third Republic and the fin de siècle. Proust's father, Adrien Proust, was a visible pathologist and epidemiologist, studying cholera in Europe and Asia. He was the author of several articles and catalogs on treatments and cleanliness. Proust's mother, Jeanne Clémence Weil, was the little girl of a rich Jewish family from Alsace. Literate and well-read, she shows a well-developed love of life in her letters, and her command word of English was sufficient to benefit her son's translations of John Ruskin. Proust grew up in his father's Catholic faith. He was baptized (on 5 August 1871, at the chapel of Saint-Louis d'Antin) and later established as a Catholic but he never formally practiced that faith.
