La Maison de Tante Léonie Featured on France 3 Centre

21 May - France 3 - spotlight on La Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust.

Among the very first museums in the region to reopen following the closure of the region's cultural venues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maison de Tante Léonie was featured on France 3 in the 19/20 evening news bulletin of 21 May, with the much-noted visit of Stéphane Bern.

Stéphane Bern was accompanied by the Préfète of Eure-et-Loir, Fadela Benrabia, the president and vice-president of the Région Centre Val de Loire, François Bonneau and Harold Huwart, the member of parliament for the canton, Laure de la Raudière, the mayor of Illiers-Combray, Bernard Puyenchet, the president of the communauté de communes Entre Beauce et Perché, Philippe Schmit, a representative of the DRAC, Anne Embs, and the mayor of the pretty commune of Le Frazé, Brigitte Pistre. The president of the Département d'Eure-et-Loir, Claude Térouinard, joined them for a few moments, by video conference.

Stéphane Bern had come to bear witness to his steadfast interest in Proust, to his constant support for local heritage and to his attachment to the renovation project for the house, currently under study.

In this report, Jérôme Bastianelli, president of the association des Amis de Marcel Proust, invites people living within 100 km of Illiers-Combray – foremost among them the residents of Eure-et-Loir, but also residents of the Yvelines and of the 14th, 15th and 16th arrondissements of Paris – to come and discover the museum.

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