The famous shell-shaped cookie was immortalised by the great French writer Marcel Proust in his ... their way to the coffee houses of Paris and became popular in no time, making their way onto the ...

In the summer of 1909, a frail, asthmatic failure retired to a cork-lined room in Paris and began writing a novel about time and memory. Over the next 15 years, Marcel Proust toiled to create the ...

Feeling excited at the prospect of Radio 4’s Proust Marathon – the new 10-hour dramatisation of Marcel Proust’s In ... after leading the life of a Paris socialite. Severely asthmatic and ...