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Exhibition opens on the Countess who made Proust swoon

She was France's great high society beauty, who so drove Marcel Proust to distraction that he went to his grave begging for a photograph of her. The crowned heads of Europe were equally in awe of her, with many dropping in on her Parisian salon before visiting the president at the Elysee Palace. Now a new exhibition opens the wardrobe door on...

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