Translations:CP 02924/12/en
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- ↑ Eugénie Lémel was Mme Proust's chambermaid from 1890 or earlier: see the letter of [28 April 1890]: (CP 00023; Kolb, I, no. 23) and possibly up until 1901 (see the letter of [30 August 1901]: CP 00585; Kolb, II, no. 279). We have very little information about her, only that she died shortly before 4 August 1915 (letter from Proust to an unknown person, dated 4 August 1915: CP 02986; Kolb, XIV, no. 98). In Jean Santeuil Proust gave the first name Eugénie to a chambermaid (JS, p. 357 - see the manuscript, NAF 16615, f. 349 v: "Oh! the towels put in her bedroom by Eugénie [...]"). [PK, FL]