 Proust was born on July 10, 1871, shortly after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war and at the very beginning of the Third Republic.His birth took place in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle on 10 July 1871, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War.He was born during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponded with the consolidation of the French Third Republic.