The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Gu�rin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Gu�rin immediately glimpsed the possibility of acquiring the novelist's personal effects, but it would be decades before he finally came to possess the relic he had most coveted: Proust's moth-eaten otter-lined overcoat...