On Saturday 3 October at 6pm, after the meeting with Laurent Mauvignier, the Maison de Tante Léonie will host the concert-reading “Ce monde évanoui de Charles Swann”, devised by Jean-Yves Patte, with Anne Trémolières as reader and Antoine Mignon at the piano.
On 17 September, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann, Olivier Philipponnat and Jérôme Bastianelli presented the new edition of Louis de Robert’s Le Roman du malade. The report of that conversation, hosted by Jacques Letertre, is now online in our “Meetings” section.
On 10 September, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann, Laurent Vinatier told the Amis de Marcel Proust how discovering Proust in detention helped him hold on. The report of that conversation is now online in our new “Meetings” section.
As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann welcomes Olivier Philipponnat, publisher of the new edition of Louis de Robert's Roman du malade (Prix Femina 1911), on Thursday 17 September at 7pm. A book Proust admired, by an author who was the first reader of Du côté de chez Swann.
The meeting originally scheduled for 12 September has been postponed to Saturday 14 November 2026. The meeting will begin at 3pm, followed by a signing session at 4pm.
As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Society is pleased to welcome Laurent Vinatier, a researcher specialising in the post-Soviet world, imprisoned in Russia between June 2024 and January 2026, who discovered Proust's work during that captivity...
In view of the temperatures still forecast for tomorrow at Illiers-Combray and the train cancellations planned by the SNCF between Chartres and Illiers-Combray, we regret that we must postpone to 3 October, 3pm, the meeting with Laurent Mauvignier, prix Goncourt 2025, initially scheduled for 27 Ju...
We are pleased to publish online an article by Emily Eells devoted to the relationship between Marcel Proust and the painter James McNeill Whistler. On the occasion of the major retrospective that Tate Britain is currently devoting to the American artist, Mme Eells looks back at the admiration...
NEWSLETTER OF 16 MAY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proust and Renoir Alongside the two Renoir exhibitions being held at the Musée d'Orsay, and as an introduction to the visit planned for Monday 18 May, Emily Eells, a member of our board of directors and a specialist in particular in the relationship between Proust and painters, has written a text on Proust and Renoir, freely availabl
On the occasion of the "Nuit européenne des musées", on Saturday 23 May 2026, Ivan Morane will read, at the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust, extracts from the correspondence of Marcel Proust with Anna de Noailles (whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated this year). And also...
On Saturday 23 May, at 3.30pm, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has invited the pianist Philippe Cassard to give a "Proustian" recital in the church at Illiers-Combray. Here is the programme. Free admission. The programme, detailed in this document https://amisdeproust.fr/images/DocsPdf/P...
On Saturday 27 June, at 3pm, Laurent Mauvignier, Prix Goncourt 2025 for "La Maison vide" (éditions de Minuit), will come to present his work at the Maison de Tante Léonie, at 3pm. A signing session will follow, at 4pm, in the Orangerie. This invitation is almost self-eviden...
NEWSLETTER OF 30 APRIL 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Meeting with Laurent Mauvignier, Prix Goncourt, at the Maison de Tante Léonie, on Saturday 27 June On Saturday 27 June, at 3pm, Laurent Mauvignier, Prix Goncourt 2025 for " La Maison vide " (éditions de Minuit), will come to present his work at the Maison de Tante Léonie, at 3pm. A signing session will follow, at 4pm, in
Here are the results of the 8th edition of our Proustian pastiche competition, announced on 19 April 2026 THE AWARD-WINNING PASTICHES ARE AVAILABLE VIA THIS LINK: /assets/actualites/archive-ancien-site/docspdf-palmarespastiches20252026.pdf General category: First prize: La passion verte de Madame Verdon,...
As part of the "rencontres des amis de Marcel Proust", Natalie David-Weill will come and present, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann, on Thursday 16 April at 7pm, her recently published book "La Petite Fille au ruban bleu". It is a portrait of Irène Cahen d’Anvers and her family, notab
NEWSLETTER OF 12 APRIL 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Acquisition of a portrait of Mr Van Blarenberghe by Paul Baignères The collections of the Musée Marcel Proust - Maison de Tante Léonie have just been enriched by the purchase, at public auction, for a very modest sum, of this pastel by Paul Baignères depicting Henri François Alexandre van Blarenbergue (1819-1906
As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is delighted to welcome Dosithée Yeatman for a lecture entitled: « Madeleine et Léon Yeatman : une amitié proustienne » Through the memories passed down by her family and the sensitive perspective she...
The collections of the Musée Marcel Proust - Maison de Tante Léonie have just been enriched by the purchase at public auction (Wattebled Portay auction house) of this pastel by Paul Baignères depicting Henri François Alexandre van Blarenbergue (1819-1906). Two reasons for this acquisition: Paul Baigner...
NEWSLETTER OF 27 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, Unless we are mistaken, you have not yet renewed your membership for 2026. If you would like to do so, you may visit: - our HelloAsso page; - our online shop; - our website (particularly for payments by bank transfer). The support of all our members is e
On Wednesday 18 March, at 7pm, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann (Paris VIIIe), as part of the "rencontres des amis de Proust": Barthélémy Etchegoyen Glama will come and present the Musée Bonnat-Helleu, which he directs and which has just reopened in Bayonne. As its name suggests, the museum...
On Tuesday 24 March, at 7pm, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann (Paris VIIIe), as part of the "rencontres des amis de Proust": presentation by Philippe Blay and members of the quatuor Tchalik of a new recording of works by Reynaldo Hahn (including the Trio, composed partly at Beg-Meil during the stay...
NEWSLETTER OF 13 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, * Unless we are mistaken, you have not yet renewed your membership for 2026. If you would like to do so, you may visit: - our HelloAsso page; - our online shop; - our website (particularly for payments by bank transfer). The support of all our members is es
NEWSLETTER OF 2 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Publication of "Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust" Announced a few weeks ago, our latest publication, Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust , has just been published. From Giotto to Delacroix, from the chiaroscuro of Rembrandt to the golden light of Vermeer, the Louvre was for Marcel Proust a veritable laboratory of the gaze. This broc
To celebrate Marcel Proust's taste for literary pastiche, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is organising a Proustian pastiche competition. The writer often engaged in this game*, notably in 1908-1909, in a series of articles concerning the same news story, L'Affaire Lemoine. These pa...
