Translations:CP 02890/57/en

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  1. Allusion to the title of a work by Léon Daudet (L'Avant-Guerre. Études et documents sur l'espionnage juif-allemand en France depuis l'affaire Dreyfus, Paris, Nouvelle édition nationale, 1913). It was Daudet who created the concept of the "Pre-War", and his book that popularised it. In a letter to Lucien Daudet written around [Monday evening 16 November 1914, or shortly afterwards] (CP 02844), Proust expresses his admiration for this prophetic work and for the power of Léon Daudet's imagination that allows him to discover "social laws". [PK, FL]