SELECTED
CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE AND PROFESSIONS
REPRESENTED IN THE KOLB-PROUST ARCHIVE COLLECTION
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| Members of Academies | Medicine |
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WRITERS: poets, novelists, playwriters, literary critics (almost all the most important ones and many minor writers) |
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JOURNALISTS |
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DIRECTORS AND EDITORS OF NEWSPAPERS AND REVIEWS |
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PUBLISHERS: most of the big publishing houses of the time (Gallimard, Grasset, Fasquelle, Fayard, etc.) |
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DIRECTORS OF THEATERS |
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ACTORS AND ACTRESSES (such as Sarah Bernhardt, Réjane, etc.) |
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DANCERS (such as Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Anna Pavlova, etc.) |
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MUSICIANS: composers, instrumentalists, conductors, singers (opera singers such as Melba, Caruso, or popular singers such as Yvette Guilbert, Mistinguett) |
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PAINTERS: Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, Renoir, etc. |
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SCULPTORS: Rodin |
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ARCHITECTS: Eiffel, Vaudoyer |
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ART CRITICS AND HISTORIANS: Ruskin, Walter Pater, Berenson |
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ART COLLECTORS |
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ART DEALERS |
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AUTOGRAPH AND RARE BOOK DEALERS: Charavay |
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FURNITURE MAKERS (such as Emile Gallé) |
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JEWELERS (such as Lalique, Cartier) |
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FASHION DESIGNERS (such as Paul Poiret, Worth, Reboux, Fortuny...) |
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PROFESSORS |
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SCHOLARS: influential researchers in the humanities (such as Bergson, Emile Mâle, Gaston Paris) and in the sciences (such as Claude Bernard, Pierre and Marie Curie, Branly, Edison, Einstein, Poincaré) |
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LIBRARIANS |
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Most of the members of the French Academy alive during Proust's time, and many future members are represented in the files |
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STATESMEN: Presidents of the Republic, secretaries of state, "présidents du conseil" (= heads of the government) |
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REPRESENTATIVES |
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SENATORS |
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DIPLOMATS: French and foreign (such as Ambassadors of the U.S.A. in Paris at the time) |
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LEADERS OF POLITICAL PARTIES |
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ADMINISTRATORS OF BIG COMPANIES (such as the de Wendel family, owners of the steel industry of Lorraine; the Renault family, owners of Renault car factories; Louis Blériot, aviation pioneer and owner of an airplane factory) |
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ENGINEERS |
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BANKERS (such as the Rothschilds, the Finaly, the Mirabaud, the Germain) |
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BROKERS |
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Proust's father and brother were famous doctors, in touch with many famous doctors of the time |
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HIGH COMMAND: most of the army leaders during World War I (Joffre, Foch, Haig, Hindenburg) |
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OFFICERS: Most of Proust's friends were officers during the war. |
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SOLDIERS |
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CATHOLIC: popes, cardinals, bishops |
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PROTESTANT: pastors, clergymen |
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JEWISH: rabbis |
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CLUBMEN |
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LADIES WITH A "SALON": Most of the influential "salons" of the time, and their hostesses, are represented in the files. |
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ARISTOCRACY |
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CHAUFFEURS (such as Odilon Albaret or Agostinelli) |
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HOTEL STAFF (such as those at Cabourg) |
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HOUSEKEEPERS (such as Céleste Albaret) |
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WAITERS (such as those at the Ritz) |
