Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
Jean-Marc Quaranta CIELAM – InCIAM (Université d’Aix-Marseille) – ITEM (CNRS-ENS Ulm) Will defend at the Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès On Monday 16 November at 2pm A Habilitation à diriger des recherches in Literature (practice and theory of literary creation) Supervisor: Isabelle...
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...
Read more →This year the ITEM-CNRS genetic editing seminar will be devoted to Cahier 2, one Wednesday a month, starting on 16 October, at the École Normale Supérieure. A collective project of international scope, the edition of the « Cahiers 1 à 75 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France »...
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...
Read more →Journée des Aubépines 2020. FULLY BOOKED. The Journée des Aubépines will take place on Saturday 26 September 2020 in Illiers-Combray, in a programme placed under the protection of the Guermantes, as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Le Côté de Guermantes. Here is the programm...
Read more →The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust offers its members a visit to the exhibition "Turner, Watercolours and Oils from the Tate Collection", commented on by Pierre Curie, curator of the exhibition and curator of the musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, 158 boulevard Haussmann, on Th...
Read more →EVENT FULLY BOOKED - BOOKINGS CLOSED. On Monday 7 September at 4.30pm, members of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust are invited to a private visit of the exhibition that the Musée d'Orsay is devoting to James Tissot, until 13 September. This visit will be guided by Mr Cyrille...
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 →Every Sunday from 12 July to 23 August 2020, at 6pm, Isabelle Mentré, a professional actress, will offer, in a private garden, a performance that may serve as an ideal complement to a visit to the maison de Tante Léonie. It will be a reading of selected pages from&nbs...
Read more →A member of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has just sent us extracts from the unpublished memoirs of his great-great-uncle, Jean de Chimay (1890-1968), nephew of the comtesse Greffulhe née Chimay and of the princesse Alexandre de Caraman Chimay. We are publishing them with his consent (a g...
Read more →From 5 to 28 July, at the Festival Off d'Avignon, the show "Proust en clair" by Jacques Mougenot. More information on the Festival Off website.
Read more →On the last Monday of every month, from 27 January to 29 June 2020, the théâtre de l'épée de bois offers, at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes, a series of readings of Proust aloud. SAMP members enjoy a reduced rate of 8 euros by booking by telephone on 01.48.08.39.74, Monday to Friday...
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