If the action of the novels of Marcel Proust took place today, his heroes, the big bourgeois and the aristocrats, would live in such interiors. Days of the secular man took place in constant visits, which were applied to him or made by him. And the way his home was furnished played a significant role in the impression he had about him. And it, in turn, but, of course, along with capital and at least an admixture of blue blood, became a pass to a better society.

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