Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
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 →The Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is organising in 2023 a second edition of the reading-aloud competition on the work of Marcel Proust. The competition is open in two categories: — category for participants under twenty-five;— category for participants over...
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 →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 14 and 15 November 2022, the 5th edition of the conference "Proust et ses amis", co-organised by the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust and the Fondation Singer Polignac, will be held, based on an idea by Jean-Yves Tadié. Bookings are now closed, but the conference will be streamed live at https://singer-polignac.tv...
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, 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 →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 →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...
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