Pierre Lemaitre at the Maison de Tante Léonie The Maison de Tante Léonie will have the pleasure of welcoming Pierre Lemaitre, prix Goncourt 2013 for Au revoir là-haut, on Saturday 12 September 2026 at 3pm. On the occasion of this exceptional meeting, the writer will discuss his career, his work an...
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...
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
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...
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 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 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 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...
Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust — our new brochure is available! The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray is delighted to announce the publication of its latest work: Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust — trois visites guidées. From Giotto to Delacroix, from the chiaroscuro o...
The collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust (Illiers-Combray) have just been enriched with the acquisition, at Christie's (the sale of the Stern collection), of a painting by Jean Béraud, « La Baigneuse ». Jean Béraud was a friend of Proust; he acted as his second in 1897 during his d...
NEWSLETTER OF 17 FEBRUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proustian news In editorial news, let us note the following publications: - L'Écrivain cartographe ; pour une nouvelle rhétorique de l'espace chez Proust , by Chiara Nifosi (éditions Peter Lang) - Maurice Barrès, le grand écrivain retrouvé , a biography written by Michel Guénaire (éditions Perrin), in
NEWSLETTER OF 8 FEBRUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proustian news Proustian editorial news is quite rich at the moment, with the following publications: - Sur les traces de John Ruskin , a collective work edited by Yasue Kato and François Proulx (Honoré Champion) - Proust en soutane , by Thierry Laget (éditions Fario) - Sur la route de l'I
