ABSTRACT
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) grew up during the reign of Anglophilia in Paris, and his avowed love of British art and letters reflects the taste and fashion of the time. He did not study English at school but was an assidous reader of English literature and aesthetic theory in translation. British artists were also well represented in France, and Proust saw a sampling of their works on display in the Louvre, and in various Parisian exhibitions. He gleaned some of his knowledge of English culture from La Revue des deux mondes, a periodical described as ‘Anglophile’ in the first recorded usage of the term.1
