A friend of Charles Swann’s has seen Odette de Crécy walking, dressed in “a ‘visiting cloak’ trimmed with skunk, under a ‘Rembrandt-style’ hat, and with a bouquet of violets in her bodice.”
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, trans. Lydia Davis (New York: Viking, 2002).
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Sunday, December 20, 2020
“Under a Rembrandt-style hat”
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