Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
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 →As part of the "rencontres des amis de Marcel Proust", Natalie David-Weill will come and present, at the hôtel Swann, on Thursday 16 April at 7pm, her recently published book "La Petite Fille au ruban bleu". It is a portrait of Irène Cahen d’Anvers and her family, notab
Read more →On Wednesday 18 March, at 7pm, at the hôtel Swann (Paris VIIIe), as part of the "rencontres des amis de Proust": Barthélémy Etchegoyen Glama will come and present the Musée Bonnat-Helleu, which he directs and which has just reopened in Bayonne. As its name suggests, the museum...
Read more →On Tuesday 24 March, at 7pm, at the hôtel Swann (Paris VIIIe), as part of the "rencontres des amis de Proust": presentation by Philippe Blay and members of the quatuor Tchalik of a new recording of works by Reynaldo Hahn (including the Trio, composed partly at Beg-Meil during the stay...
Read more →To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Marcel Proust, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray held two simple ceremonies yesterday: laying a bouquet of flowers at 44, rue Hamelin, where the writer died, then at the Père Lachaise cemetery, at his gra...
Read more →On Monday 21 November at 8.30pm, a concert-reading is being organised to commemorate the funeral of Marcel Proust, which was held one hundred years earlier to the day at the former church of Saint-Pierre de Chaillot. The evening, devised in partnership between the Paroisse Saint Pierre de Chaillot and the Soc...
Read more →Reading Competition 2022 The Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is organising, to celebrate the results of the reading competition, a ceremony at the Centre national du livre in Paris, 53 rue de Verneuil in the 7th arrondissement, on 20 October 2022 at 7pm. This cer...
Read more →To mark the 2022 Journée des Aubépines, Antoine Compagnon, professor at the Collège de France and member of the Académie française, invites us, in this centenary year of the writer's death, to "reread" Proust. "Every great work lacks poise: assured works go out of fashion, those that be...
Read more →The Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is this year organising a reading-aloud competition on the work of Marcel Proust. Participation The competition is open in two categories: — category for participants under twenty-five;— category for participants...
Read more →Exhibition "Les assises du temps perdu" by Anthony Guerrée with Atelier Jespers at Cornette de Saint Cyr from 1 to 12 February 2021 Monday to Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 11am - 6pm CORNETTE DE SAINT CYR 6, avenue Hoche 75008 PARIS Member Anthon...
Read more →Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper during the last eight years of his life, during which he completed the writing of his masterpiece − she is moreover one of the inspirations for the character of Françoise in La Recherche. Day and night, Céleste Albaret cared for Ma...
Read more →For more than twenty years, the artist Véronique Aubouy has been building a body of work from and around À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust. One of the "offshoots" of her work is this performance, staged for the third year running, during which she attempts to summarise La recherche i...
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