From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Genevi ve Hal vy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adh aume de Chevign ; and lisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars...