16 May 2026

Newsletter of 16 May 2026

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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 available on our website: /assets/actualites/archive-ancien-site/docspdf-proustetrenoir.pdf

We hope you enjoy reading it.

II. Concert at the Maison de Tante Léonie on 27 June at 7pm

On Saturday 27 June, in addition to the meeting with Laurent Mauvignier at 3pm, the Maison de Tante Léonie will host, at 7pm, a musical performance devised by Jean-Yves Patte, with the support of Bruno Saillant, Ce monde évanoui de Charles Swann, with Antoine Mignon (piano) and Anne Trémolières (reader). The programme features in particular a rare work, the Rêverie "à la princesse de Brancovan", by Edmond de Polignac.

Free admission for members.

The programme is available here: /assets/actualites/archive-ancien-site/docspdf-concert27juin2026.pdf

III. Proustian visit to Père Lachaise on Saturday 6 June

Marie-France Vaillant, a member of our association passionate about Père Lachaise, offers us a visit recounting the life of Marcel Proust and the figures who inspired his work.

Meet at the Gambetta entrance, at 2.30pm, on Saturday 6 June. Our guide warns us: there is so much to say that we should allow three hours!

Free visit, registration recommended: contact@amisdeproust.fr

IV. Proustian news

In publishing news, let us note:

- the publication, on the website Proustonomics, of an interview with Clémentine Beauvais, an author of children's books, who talks about her passion for Proust

- two new podcasts available in the series "Proust Bagatelles", on Fréquence Protestante, featuring respectively Evelyne Bloch-Dano and Christine Lecerf, interviewed by Dara Fadabini.

- the publication, on the Radio France website, of a reading of Violante, ou la Mondanité, by the actress Micheline Boudet, from 1972

- the sale, by Christies, of a book by Jean Cocteau, La Noce massacrée (1921), with a fine dedication to Marcel Proust ;

- the publication, by éditions Gremese, of Tout sur Visconti, a collective work featuring a text by Jean Pavans on the director's Proustian passion

V. Calendar of Proustian events

Monday 18 May, at 10am, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, a lecture by Claire Bustarret, Aborder la matérialité des Cahiers : usages des supports et gestes d'écriture, as part of the seminar Proust. « Papiers. Livres. Archives. Bibliothèques »

Thursday 21 May, at the Hôtel Swann (Paris VIIIe), as part of the "rencontres des amis de Proust": a lecture by Dosithée Yeatman about her grandmother, Madeleine Adam Yeatman (see above)

22 May, 19 June, by video conference, from 3.30pm to 5.30pm, a seminar on editing Proust's correspondence, organised by Françoise Leriche and open to all (link for the video conference)

Saturday 23 May: journée des aubépines at Illiers-Combray: /assets/actualites/archive-ancien-site/docspdf-programmeaub2026.pdf

27 May, at the Hôtel Swann (Paris), a meeting with Jean-Yves and Marc Tadié who co-wrote "Le Sens de la mémoire", reissued by Folio essais.

27 May, at the Café de la Gare (Paris IVe), a performance by Jean-Jacques Vanier, À la recherche de la recherche (ou que le grand Proust me croque)

28 May, at the Hôtel Swann (Paris VIIIe), presentation of the book Cent lettres inédites de Marcel Proust. Correspondance retrouvée 1886-1922, forthcoming from éditions Honoré Champion, edited by Julie André, Sophie Duval and Guillaume Fau

28 May, at Montauban (Ancien Collège, 25 allée de l'Empereur), a lecture by Jean-Paul Briseul, Vermeer et Proust : Le petit pan de mur jaune

29 May: a study day on Pélerinages proustiens organised at the École Normale Supérieure by Christophe Pradeau

29 May, at 4pm, as part of the Festival du Livre de Nice, a meeting with Antoine Compagnon, honorary president of the event

Saturday 6 June, at 2.30pm: Proustian visit to Père Lachaise, with Marie-France Vaillant (see above)

Wednesday 10 June, at 10am, visit to the exhibition on Mme de Sévigné at the Musée Carnavalet, with the curator

from 11 to 13 June: conference Marcel Proust und die Ökonomie / et l'économie at the University of Zurich

17 June, at the Hôtel Swann, presentation of the prix Céleste Albaret

Saturday 20 June: a pianola demonstration at the musée de la musique mécanique at Dollon (Sarthe), organised by Jean-Paul Henriet (registrations open)

until 23 June, at the Hôtel Swann, exhibition "Proust et les femmes de sa vie"

Saturday 27 June, 3pm: meeting at the Maison de Tante Léonie with Laurent Mauvignier, prix Goncourt 2025, then, at 7pm, concert-reading "Ce monde évanoui de Charles Swann" (see above)

Saturday 11 July, at 3pm, at the Villa du Temps retrouvé (Cabourg), a lecture by the pianist Jérémie Favreau on the sources of Vinteuil's sonata.

Friday 4 and Saturday 5 September, at Illiers-Combray (domaine de la Citadelle), a literary conference organised under the aegis of the Institut universitaire de France by Luc Fraisse and Olivier Guerrier, Identifier les autres et/ou se faire 'lecteur de soi-même' : Proust et la reconnaissance.

Saturday 12 September, 3pm: meeting at the Maison de Tante Léonie with Pierre Lemaitre, prix Goncourt 2013


And also:

Until 27 September, at Tate Britain (London), an exhibition on James McNeill Whistler

Until 23 August, at the Musée Carnavalet, exhibition on Mme de Sévigné

28 and 29 September, in Barcelona, a conference on Marcel Proust et les langues minoritaires ou minorées, organised by the ARIPIC and the société catalane d'amis de Marcel Proust

from 9 to 11 October: Journées musicales Marcel Proust at Ermenonville

As usual, you will find in the previous newsletter (30 April) further information, some of which is still relevant.

Yours sincerely,

Jérôme Bastianelli

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