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Swann’s Way
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My father and mother were left alone and sat down for a moment; then my father said: “Well, shall we go up to bed?” “As you wish, dear, though I don’t feel in the least like sleeping. I don’t know why…

Contributor:

Marcel Proust

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Memory, Adolescence, Family, Children, Class

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
Circumcision Ceremony
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (Religious…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1722

Subjects:

Life cycle, Circumcision, Family, Children, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top of baby on man's lap surrounded by people with bed in background, the bottom showing many people in ornate room with baby crib.