And , in the first episode of the `` Overture '' to Swann 's Way - the first novel in Marcel Proust 's In Search of Lost Time sequence - a young , distraught Marcel is calmed by his mother as she reads from FranÃ ois le Champi , a novel which it is explained was part of a birthday package from his grandmother which also included La Mare au Diable , La Petite Fadette , and Les MaÃ tres Sonneurs . And in the first episode of the `` Overture '' to Swann 's Wayâ '' the first novel in Marcel Proust 's In Search of Lost Time sequenceâ '' a young , distraught Marcel is calmed by his mother as she reads from FranÃ ois le Champi , a novel which ( it is explained ) was part of a birthday package from his grandmother , which also included La Mare au Diable , La Petite Fadette , and Les MaÃ tres Sonneurs .