Translations:CP 05642/12/en
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- ↑ In Marcel Proust's military service record (Archives de Paris, la Seine matriculation registers and military recruitment register) his forenames are written in the same sequence as his baptism: "Valentin, Louis, Georges, Eugène, Marcel", the tradition being that the familiar first name was the one placed last. But some years after Proust's birth the custom changed and the familiar first name was on the contrary put first (which indeed was the case with his brother Robert, born two years after him: "Robert, Sigismond, Léon"). The men called up in 1914 and 1915 being mostly young men, the officials from the recruitment offices probably did not think that Marcel Proust came from the generation where the familiar first name was placed last. [FP, FL]