Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
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.
Read more →20 September 2026
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. A report on that conversation, hosted by Jacques Letertre, is now online in our “Meetings” section.
Read more →11 September 2026
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.
Read more →As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann welcomes Olivier Philipponnat, editor 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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →20 June 2026
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...
Read more →16 May 2026
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
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
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