Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
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 Wednesday 15 September, a symbolic cheque for 400,000 euros was presented to the Association, corresponding to the support given by the Loto du Patrimoine to the renovation of the Maison de Tante Léonie, works overseen by the Conseil départemental d'Eure-et-Loir. The cheque...
Read more →To mark the reopening of the Maison de Tante Léonie on Wednesday 19 May, the whole "museum" room has been redone, with the support of the DRAC Centre Val de Loire, to present both an introduction to the visit and a first overview of our collections. &nb...
Read more →After more than two years of renovation works carried out by the Conseil départemental d'Eure-et-Loir, with the support of the Drac Centre, the Fondation du Patrimoine and the Région Centre, and with the expertise of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust reo...
Read more →The Musée éphémère Marcel Proust opened its doors on Saturday 22 January. Located at 19, rue de Chartres, in Illiers-Combray, it houses the collections of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray for the whole duration of the renovation works at the Maison de Tante Léonie, that is until mid-...
Read more →To mark the 2022 Journée des Aubépines, the Société des amis de Marcel Proust is organising, for the first time in its history, a classical music concert in the church of the town of Illiers-Combray, which inspired Marcel Proust in writing Combray, the opening part of À la re...
Read more →The Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust closed for renovation works on 12 December 2021. It is due to reopen in 2023. From 22 January 2022, a "temporary museum" will open in Illiers-Combray, at 19 rue de Chartres, to present our permanent collection and a reconstruction of two...
Read more →The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is running a subscription campaign to acquire a painting by Thomas Alexander Harrison entitled Beach Tides and painted around 1895, that is, at the time when Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn were visiting the painter's studio at Beg-Meil. This work is intended to enrich the collec...
Read more →To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Proust, on Saturday 10 July 2021, numerous events are being jointly organised by the Mairie d'Illiers-Combray and the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust. The provisional programme can be consulted by clicking on...
Read more →Throughout the two lockdowns linked to the Covid-19 epidemic, the Société des amis de Marcel Proust posted a quotation from Proust every day on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Find below the full set of these quotations, in descending chronological order: #UneCitat...
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...
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