On this day in 1909, Marcel Proust dips a crust of toast in his tea and the experience prompts him to think of madeleines. From this memory, he constructs the beginnings of A Remembrance of Things Past.
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On this day in 1909, Marcel Proust dips a crust of toast in his tea and the experience prompts him to think of madeleines. From this memory, he constructs the beginnings of A Remembrance of Things Past.