Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
2 October 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, The collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie were enriched today with the purchase at public auction, at Drouot, of a drypoint by Paul César Helleu. The sale catalogue did not specify who the lady depicted in this dra...
Read more →30 September 2019
Annual membership subscriptions are essential to the running of the association; they help fund the publication of the Bulletin Marcel Proust, enable the Musée Marcel Proust to open to the public, and contribute to financing the upkeep of the "Maison de tante Léonie" and...
Read more →30 September 2019
Since July 2019, thanks to a partnership with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, past Bulletins have been freely accessible on the Gallica website. Keyword search is not yet functional but should be available shortly (expected date: October 2019). Click&n...
Read more →22 September 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, A brief letter to let you know of an event that was not mentioned in the 7 September mailing: Thursday 26 September at 7pm, at the Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris (located on the quai d’Orléans), Mme Pyra Wise, of the "Proust" tea...
Read more →Stay of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust in Cabourg, Friday evening 13 September - Sunday afternoon 15 September 2019 "Having learned that there was, in Cabourg, a hotel, the most comfortable on the whole coast, I went there. Since I have been here, I have been able to get up and go out every...
Read more →7 September 2019
Booking required at evenements.shlp@bplp.fr. More information in the attached document.
Read more →2 August 2019
From 29 July to 2 August 2019, from 9am to 11am, France Culture, as part of the programme "Les Grandes Traversées", broadcasts previously unpublished recordings of Céleste Albaret. She was an uneducated countrywoman before working alongside Marcel Proust. Devoted and strong-willed servant of one of the greatest writers of the 20th cent...
Read more →Thursday 18 and Friday 19 July 2019 at the Université de Padoue, conference "Proust et les écrans", organised by Geneviève Henrot Sostero and Ilaria Vidotto. The programme is available here.
Read more →10 July 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, Today (Marcel Proust's birthday) an auction was held at Drouot of letters, mostly unpublished, from Proust to his friend Louis d’Albuféra. We took part in this sale to acquire three&nb...
Read more →Tuesday 9 July 2019, in Reims, as part of the Flâneries musicales, concert-reading "les fleurs fugitives de Marcel Proust" by pianist Jean-Philippe Collard and actor Lambert Wilson. More information on the festival website.
Read more →Saturday 6 July 2019, at 5pm, at the Grand Hôtel de Cabourg, Jean-Yves Tadié will give a lecture on the theme "Proust et l’hôtel" This lecture is organised by the Cercle Littéraire de Cabourg-Balbec.
Read more →VISIT TO AMIENS CATHEDRAL Saturday 15 June 2019 "I should like to give the reader the desire and the means to spend a day in Amiens as a kind of Ruskinian pilgrimage."Preface to John Ruskin's Bible d'Amiens, Marcel Proust REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED...
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