Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
In this episode of Les Carnets de Julie, broadcast on France 3 on 21 December 2019, Julie Andrieu decides to sit down at Marcel Proust's table, at the Maison de Tante Léonie, in the company of a few members of the association: Monique Bailleau, Maxime Beucher, Anne Borrel, Gisèle Maini. As s...
Read more →Proust pour Tous: THE SEVEN LESSONS OF MARCEL PROUST. Drawing on extracts from À la recherche du temps perdu, offering 7 precious life lessons, Laurence Grenier will take you, in 7 stages, through the 7 volumes of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, through a reading of...
Read more →Journée des Aubépines 2020. FULLY BOOKED. The Journée des Aubépines will take place on Saturday 26 September 2020 in Illiers-Combray, in a programme placed under the protection of the Guermantes, as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Le Côté de Guermantes. Here is the programm...
Read more →Every Sunday from 12 July to 23 August 2020, at 6pm, Isabelle Mentré, a professional actress, will offer, in a private garden, a performance that may serve as an ideal complement to a visit to the maison de Tante Léonie. It will be a reading of selected pages from&nbs...
Read more →A member of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has just sent us extracts from the unpublished memoirs of his great-great-uncle, Jean de Chimay (1890-1968), nephew of the comtesse Greffulhe née Chimay and of the princesse Alexandre de Caraman Chimay. We are publishing them with his consent (a g...
Read more →At the proposal of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust and following a favourable opinion from the mayor of Illiers-Combray, the préfète of Eure-et-Loir has authorised the reopening of the Maison de Tante Léonie, from Friday 15 May. Come and see us if you are within 100 km, it is an opportunity...
Read more →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...
Read more →In its 19 April edition, the Journal du Dimanche published this pastiche of Proust, written by Marc Lambron, of the Académie Française: It was thus that on summer evenings at Combray, as I lay stretched out on the bed of the room that the rays of the sun had adorned during the d...
Read more →Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Saturday 21 March at 3pmMusée Jean-Jacques Henner43, avenue de Villiers - 75017 Paris « Au bal avec Marcel Proust » Ball and ballroom dance lessons (quadrilles, waltzes and polkas). Hosted by Claire Duport, dancer and choreo...
Read more →Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Friday 13 March at 7.30pmMusée Jean-Jacques Henner43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17e Concert: « Au piano avec Reynaldo Hahn ». Chansons grises by Reynaldo Hahn after Paul Verlaine. Portraits de peintres, piano pieces by Re...
Read more →Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Thursday 12 March at 7.30pmMusée Jean-Jacques Henner43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17e Opening concert: « Une sonate de Vinteuil », Sonata by César Franck, Sonate Nocturne by Reynaldo Hahn. Duo Älva, Aiko Okamura (violin), Hélèn...
Read more →Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Saturday 14 March at 4pm, Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, 43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17th. Meeting / talk: PROUSTITUDINATIONS: L'invention de la Recherche, one hour and thirty riddles on Marcel Proust, with François Bon, author of Prou...
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