Translations:CP 02892/11/en
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- ↑ Allusion to the mourning following the accidental death of Alfred Agostinelli that took place on 30 May 1914. In his letter to Louis de Robert written a few days before (see CP 02890, note 3; Kolb, XIV, no. 1), Proust asserts likewise that “the whole of the last summer was the cruellest in my life” and refers to this period of intense sorrow also as “[h]is pre-war period”. [FL]