Some have suggested Marie was in love with Proust, but she was not. In fact, Nordlinger and Proust had been introduced at the Paris home of the writer's close friend, the musician and composer Reynaldo Hahn, who was also thought to be his lover.
He, of course, was not at all interested in her, and neither was Proust. Nordlinger, born in 1876, was the third of seven children of an Italian father, who had made his fortune in textiles and shipping, and a German mother.
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