Tag: brightness
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France marvels at class of woman who made Proust swoon
Now a new exhibition opens the wardrobe door on the 20th century's first great fashion trendsetter, Elisabeth, Countess Greffulhe, the woman Proust immortalised as the beautiful Duchess of Guermantes in his literary masterpiece “A la recherche du temps perdu” (“Remembrance of Things Past”). “All the mystery of her beauty was in her brightness, in her…