perdu

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Perdu calls his bookshop, on a barge in the Seine, the Literary Apothecary, because he doesn’t just sell books to his customers, he prescribes them to suit the psychic ills he diagnoses in his clientele.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2015

This type of associative memory was famously described by Marcel Proust in À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014

Marcel Proust used the changing seasons to vividly evoke time and mood in A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2012

Godolphin's No1 jockey will instead ride the Nicolas Clement-trained Pain Perdu – a neck second to Simon De Montfort last time out – in a bid to win the race for a fourth time.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2010

He resolved that he would buy property near the Perdu and settle there.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir