Among his major works as a literary critic are essays on Goethe's novel Elective Affinities ; the work of Franz Kafka and Karl Kraus ; translation theory ; the stories of Nikolai Leskov ; the work of Marcel Proust and perhaps most significantly, the poetry of Charles Baudelaire.

Among the painter's most famous works are portraits of his father, Marcel Proust ( private collection, Paris ), the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family ( Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ), Aubrey Beardsley ( National Portrait Gallery, London ), and Yvette Guilbert.

After returning to America White maintained his interest in France and French literature, publishing " Genet: a biography " ( 1993 ), " Our Paris: sketches from memory " ( 1995 ), " Marcel Proust " ( 1998 ), " The Flaneur: a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris " ( 2000 ) and " Rimbaud " ( 2008 ).

Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Tournier, Marguerite Duras and Romain Gary ( who exceptionally won it twice ) are among the best-known authors who have won the century-old prize.

Devoto and Noko met through Pete Shelley, supposedly bonding over a competition to read Marcel Proust ( Noko won ).

* Jean-Paul Proust: April 9, 2001 – December 6, 2004

The book is an ironic counterblast to Marcel Proust, whose reputation had unexpectedly eclipsed that of André Gide ( who had provided the model of littérature engagée for Sartre's generation ).

Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication.

Proust paid for the publication of the first volume ( by the Grasset publishing house ) after it had been turned down by leading editors who had been offered the manuscript in longhand.

Some decisions for awarding the prize have been controversial, the most famous case being the decision to award the prize in 1919 to Marcel Proust ; this was met with indignation, since many in the public felt that the prize should have gone to Roland Dorgelès for Les Croix de bois, a novel about the First World War.

The prize was supposed to be awarded to promising young authors, whereas Proust was 48 ( Proust was a beginning author, though, which is the only eligibility requirement for the prize, age being unimportant ); and, this was immediately after the end of the war, where Dorgelès had fought, whereas Proust had been deemed unfit for service for medical reasons ( he had asthma ).

Marcel Proust used her as a model for the Princesse de Luxembourg in In Search of Lost Time.

Admitted influences for Kerouac include Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe.

Also Faust, Bomber, Doctor Who: The Vengeance of Morbius, Empire of the Sun, Brighton Rock, Fair Stood the Wind for France, Fluke, Great Speeches in History, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Lady Windermere's Fan, Peter Pan, The Alchemist, The Day of the Triffids, The Hairy Hands, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, The Queen's Man, The Solitaire Mystery, The Swimming Pool Library, The Two Destinies, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Way I Found Her, The Way to Dusty Death, The Woodlanders, Under the Net, Wuthering Heights and Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales for Young and Old.

Referring to her uncle, Emperor Napoleon I, she once told Marcel Proust: " If it weren't for him, I'd be selling oranges in the streets of Ajaccio.

Jules Cotard served as the real life model for the character of Dr. Cottard in the Marcel Proust novel In Search of Lost Time.

Elizabeth wrote a moving obituary for Proust in the November 1922 New Statesman.

The 20th arrondissement is also internationally known for the Père Lachaise Cemetery where one can find the burials of many famous composers ( such as Frédéric Chopin and Gioacchino Rossini ), writers ( including Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust ), painters ( Camille Pissarro, Jacques-Louis David, and others ), and the rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors.

Proust published this paper in 1794, but the law was not accepted until 1812, when the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius gave him credit for it.

He was due to formally step down on 1 May 2005 and to be replaced by Jean-Paul Proust, but Proust's inauguration was deferred for a few weeks owing to the death of ruling Prince Rainier.

* Joseph Proust ( 1754 – 1826 ), French chemist, responsible for the Law of definite proportions

but I am so aware of an uninterrupted continuity of the persona or ego that I see only as absurd the tendency of some psychologists from Heraclitus to Pirandello and Proust to regard consciousness as no more than a flux amid which nothing remains unchanged.

Bloch's revolutionary charting of mentalities, or mentalités, resonated with scholars who were reading Freud and Proust.

She states in Volume One of her diaries that she drew inspiration from Marcel Proust, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Paul Valéry, and Arthur Rimbaud.

Based on this idea and the atomic theory of John Dalton, Joseph Proust had developed the law of definite proportions, which later resulted in the concepts of stoichiometry and chemical equations.

Berthollet was engaged in a long-term battle with another French chemist Joseph Proust on the validity of the law of definite proportions.

While Proust believed that chemical compounds are composed of a fixed ratio of their constituent elements irrespective of the methods of production, Berthollet believed that this ratio can change according to the ratio of the reactants initially taken.

Although Proust proved his theory by accurate measurements, his theory was not immediately accepted partially due to Berthollet's authority.

Both Shakespeare and Proust are mentioned as well.

In 1881, with pressure from his friend Antonin Proust, the French government awarded Manet the Légion d ' honneur.

Food writing can also refer to poetry and fiction, such as Marcel Proust ’ s À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time ), with its famous passage in which the narrator recollects his childhood memories as a result of sipping tea and eating a madeleine.

* 1871 – Marcel Proust, French writer ( d. 1922 )

In his early twenties, Cocteau became associated with the writers Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Maurice Barrès.

This observation was first made by the French chemist Joseph Proust, based on several experiments conducted between 1798 and 1804.

A few years previously, the French chemist Joseph Proust had proposed the law of definite proportions, which expressed that the elements combined to form compounds in certain well-defined proportions, rather than mixing in just any proportion ; and Antoine Lavoisier proved the law of conservation of mass, which helped out Dalton.

Significant modernist literary works continued to be created in the 1920s and 1930s, including further novels by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Robert Musil, and Dorothy Richardson.

" Bloch's revolutionary charting of mentalities resonated with scholars who were reading Freud and Proust.

The word " Merovingian " has been used as an adjective, at least five times in Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.

He combined intellectual and cultural influences from East and West-his own exposure to the literarature of non-Egyptian culture began in his youth with the enthusiastic consumption of Western detective stories, Russian classics, and such modernist writers as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and James Joyce.

Back in Frankfurt, he renewed his academic duties and, from 1952 to 1954, completed the essays “ Notes on Kafka ”, “ Valéry Proust Museum ” and an essay on Schoenberg following the composer's death, all of which were included in the 1955 essay collection Prisms.

After meeting Samuel Beckett while delivering a series of lectures in Paris the same year, Adorno set to work on " Trying to Understand Endgame ," which, along with studies of Proust, Valéry and Balzac, formed the central texts of the 1961 publication of the second volume of his Notes to Literature.

In 1799, Joseph Louis Proust advanced chemistry towards the atom by showing that elements combined in definite proportions.

* July 10 – Marcel Proust, French writer ( d. 1922 )

* May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.

* November 18 – Marcel Proust, French author ( b. 1871 )

* September 26 – Joseph Proust, French chemist ( d. 1826 )