The beginning of the 20th century. Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrendered complacently to the torments of jealousy. After hours of suffering, he manages to spend a night with Odette. In the morning, he believes that ultimately, this one is 'not his type'. However, we find him, many years later, alongside Odette who, now his wife, gave him a daughter. In the company of Baron de Charlus, brother of the Duchess of Guermantes, he wonders about the failure of his sentimental life, so far removed from this absolute he dreamed of...
18 April 1946, Valangin, Switzerland
8 November 1935, Sceaux, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
22 March 1949, Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
17 May 1927, Paris, France
August 22, 1922 in Haifa, Palestine [now Israel]
August 21, 1954 in Arcachon, Gironde, France
19 September 1948, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
December 1, 1944 in Paris, France
March 24, 1938 in Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
21 March 1944, Paris, France
23 April 1936, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany

