Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
12 April 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 12 APRIL 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Acquisition of a portrait of Mr Van Blarenberghe by Paul Baignères The collections of the Musée Marcel Proust - Maison de Tante Léonie have just been enriched by the purchase, at public auction, for a very modest sum, of this pastel by Paul Baignères depicting Henri François Alexandre van Blarenbergue (1819-1906
Read more →As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is delighted to welcome Dosithée Yeatman for a lecture entitled: « Madeleine et Léon Yeatman : une amitié proustienne » Through the memories passed down by her family and the sensitive perspective she...
Read more →31 March 2026
The collections of the Musée Marcel Proust - Maison de Tante Léonie have just been enriched by the purchase at public auction (Wattebled Portay auction house) of this pastel by Paul Baignères depicting Henri François Alexandre van Blarenbergue (1819-1906). Two reasons for this acquisition: Paul Baigner...
Read more →27 March 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 27 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, Unless we are mistaken, you have not yet renewed your membership for 2026. If you would like to do so, you may visit: - our HelloAsso page; - our online shop; - our website (particularly for payments by bank transfer). The support of all our members is e
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...
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NEWSLETTER OF 13 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, * Unless we are mistaken, you have not yet renewed your membership for 2026. If you would like to do so, you may visit: - our HelloAsso page; - our online shop; - our website (particularly for payments by bank transfer). The support of all our members is es
Read more →2 March 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 2 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Publication of "Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust" Announced a few weeks ago, our latest publication, Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust , has just been published. From Giotto to Delacroix, from the chiaroscuro of Rembrandt to the golden light of Vermeer, the Louvre was for Marcel Proust a veritable laboratory of the gaze. This broc
Read more →28 February 2026
To celebrate Marcel Proust's taste for literary pastiche, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is organising a Proustian pastiche competition. The writer often engaged in this game*, notably in 1908-1909, in a series of articles concerning the same news story, L'Affaire Lemoine. These pa...
Read more →27 February 2026
Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust — our new brochure is available! The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray is delighted to announce the publication of its latest work: Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust — trois visites guidées. From Giotto to Delacroix, from the chiaroscuro o...
Read more →22 February 2026
The collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust (Illiers-Combray) have just been enriched with the acquisition, at Christie's (the sale of the Stern collection), of a painting by Jean Béraud, « La Baigneuse ». Jean Béraud was a friend of Proust; he acted as his second in 1897 during his d...
Read more →17 February 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 17 FEBRUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proustian news In editorial news, let us note the following publications: - L'Écrivain cartographe ; pour une nouvelle rhétorique de l'espace chez Proust , by Chiara Nifosi (éditions Peter Lang) - Maurice Barrès, le grand écrivain retrouvé , a biography written by Michel Guénaire (éditions Perrin), in
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