Marcel Proust's last address, and the flat he hated. He moved here in 1919 when 102 boulevard Haussmann was sold out from under him, called it an ignoble hovel, finished correcting his novel here, and died in the building on 18 November 1922.
In early 1919 the building at 102 boulevard Haussmann was sold, and Marcel Proust — who had spent thirteen years in a cork-lined bedroom there writing In Search of Lost Time — had to move. He ended up at 44 rue de l'Amiral-Hamelin, in Chaillot, and made no secret of what he thought of it. He called it an ignoble hovel.
The last three years of his life were spent here, and they were the years the work came out. The novel's later volumes were being published and corrected while his health collapsed, and the famous account of his final months is of a man racing his own body to finish the book, writing and revising in bed with the manuscript around him.
He died in the flat on 18 November 1922, of pneumonia, having refused medical treatment. He was fifty-one. Substantial parts of In Search of Lost Time were still unpublished, and appeared over the following five years.
He is buried at Père-Lachaise, in division 85.
The building is now a three-star hotel, the Hôtel Elysées Union, which notes that Proust lived there. His former apartment is not a public museum. The Proust address people photograph is the boulevard Haussmann one, because that is where the cork-lined room was. This is the other one: the flat he did not want, in a quarter he had not chosen, where the work was finished and the writer died.
102 boulevard Haussmann is sold; Proust moves to 44 rue de l'Amiral-Hamelin.
The later volumes of In Search of Lost Time are corrected here as his health declines.
Proust dies in the flat, of pneumonia, aged 51.
The remaining volumes of the novel are published posthumously.
At 44 rue de l'Amiral-Hamelin in the 16th arrondissement, on 18 November 1922. He was fifty-one, the cause was pneumonia, and he had refused medical treatment. Several volumes of In Search of Lost Time were still unpublished.
He had no choice. The building at 102 boulevard Haussmann, where he had spent thirteen years and written most of his novel, was sold in early 1919. He moved to the rue de l'Amiral-Hamelin and disliked it, calling the flat an ignoble hovel.
The building is now a hotel, the Hôtel Elysées Union, so you can see its street front or stay in the hotel. Proust's former apartment is not a public museum. The Proust address most people visit is 102 boulevard Haussmann, because that is where the cork-lined room was; the room's contents are at the Musée Carnavalet. This one is where the work was finished and the writer died.
In Père-Lachaise cemetery, division 85, in the 20th arrondissement.
Lived here · 1919–1922
Proust's last address, taken in 1919 when the boulevard Haussmann building was sold. He called it an ignoble hovel, corrected the later volumes of his novel here as his health failed, and died in the flat on 18 November 1922.
The ground-floor apartment Colette rented on her own after leaving Willy, remembered as a place of new independence. The building no longer exists.
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Where Edith Wharton stayed with her brother when she arrived in Paris in 1906 — the beginning of the move that would take her out of America permanently.
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The home of Mathilde de Morny — Missy — where Colette lived through much of their relationship after leaving Willy.
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The apartment Paul Gauguin and Mette Gad took after the birth of their first child — an expensive address near the Arc de Triomphe, and the setting of his 1875 portrait of his sleeping wife.
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The city's Proust walk: the 1919 move, the address in the 16th, the death on 18 November 1922, and the burial at Père-Lachaise division 85.
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The hotel's official site: Hôtel Elysées Union, a three-star hotel at 44 rue de l'Amiral Hamelin, in the building where Marcel Proust lived. Checked 2 October 2026.
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