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"Long Time I Went to Bed Early": Marcel Proust's Famous First Sentence Almost Didn't Exist

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"On Swann's side", the first volume of the novel "In search of lost time" began with an endless sentence. At the last moment, Marcel Proust raye it and replaced it with the first most famous sentence in French literature: "Longtime, I went to bed early".

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"Long Time I Went to Bed Early": Marcel Proust's Famous First Sentence Almost Didn't Exist

"On Swann's side", the first volume of the novel "In search of lost time" began with an endless sentence. At the last moment, Marcel Proust raye it and replaced it with the first most famous sentence in French literature: "Longtime, I went to bed early".

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franceinfo.fr broke the news in on Sunday, February 15, 2026.
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