For about a year or so after I finished Le Temps retrouvé I couldn't read another novel without thinking Proust had written it already.
When Saint-Age is finished, Le Chevalier steps in embuggering the victim while simultaneously punching both her ears with his fists.
Ottavio Bottecchia was the first rider from across the Alps to win the race, doing so in 1924 and 1925, and Marco Pantani was the last Italian to finish Le Tour in yellow.
He has just finished "Les Parents Terrible" and has formed his own company for his next film, which will deal with Orpheus and Eurydice.
(Interestingly, I have just finished reading Le Carre's "A Town in Germany" and that has scenes of unauthorised secretive work being carried out in a British Embassy basement).
Here's a top fact to wave around the pub next time you want to make friends*: in 1995, five McLaren F1 GTR models finished the Le Mans 24 hour race, finishing 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 13th.
When it was finished, Vaux-le-Vicomte was indeed a sight to behold, a lovely, Baroque chateau that became the birth place of the style known as the "jardin a la francaise".
Some other writer will finish his Les Miserables in that flat – with his wife looking over his shoulder.
"To be honest, I think I was really lucky on the finish," Le Clos said.
But at the finish Le Grande Danseur was ahead by nearly six lengths, trailed by Backstreet Blues and Native Rhythm.
Northumbriana: I have just finished my first Le Carre, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
