Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
1 January 2025
The results of the 6th edition of our Proustian pastiche competition are as follows: General category: - First Prize: Arnaud Marchand for "Le Quai des Grands-Augustins" ; - Second Prize: Jonathan Teyssandier for "La Vieillesse de Saint-Loup" ; - - Highly commended by the jury...
Read more →11 November 2024
The collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust have recently been enriched thanks to the donation of the portrait, by Fernand Cormon (a painter exhibited notably at the Musée d'Orsay), of Gustave Neuburger (1836-1914), second husband of Laure Lazarus, first cousin of Jeanne Prous...
Read more →19 May 2024
Entries for the 2024 edition of the Proustian pastiche competition are now closed, and the jury's file is available by clicking on this link. Members whose 2024 membership is up to date are invited to take part in voting for the "Members' prize" in each of the...
Read more →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 →24 April 2024
The sixth edition of our Proustian pastiche competition is now open, in two categories according to the age of the competitors, over or under 25. Texts must be sent to us before midnight on 1 May. The rules are available on our website: https://amisdeproust....
Read more →17 March 2024
The collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust have been enriched by the purchase, on Friday 16 February, at Drouot, of this painting by Louise Abbéma depicting the Comédie-Française actress Jeanne Samary. Louise Abbéma is mentioned only once by Marcel Proust, in Une F...
Read more →4 February 2024
The collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust have been enriched by the purchase, on Friday 2 February, at Drouot, of this photograph of Jacques-Emile Blanche dedicated in 1892 to Marcel Proust. This acquisition was made using the pre-emption right that we ha...
Read more →1 January 2024
The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has just acquired at public auction, at Pandolfini, in Florence, this engraving by Giovanni Boldini depicting Paul-César Helleu. While works by Helleu were already part of the collections of the Musée Marcel Proust - Maison de Tante Léonie (see for example...
Read more →To mark the reopening of the Maison de Tante Léonie on Wednesday 19 May, the whole "museum" room has been redone, with the support of the DRAC Centre Val de Loire, to present both an introduction to the visit and a first overview of our collections. &nb...
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 →1 January 2024
To mark the 150th anniversary of the writer's birth, 150 members of the Société des amis de Marcel Proust each selected an excerpt from his work, explaining in a few lines the reasons for their choice. The resulting anthology offers a broad panorama of what his readers app...
Read more →On Wednesday 15 September, a symbolic cheque for 400,000 euros was presented to the Association, corresponding to the support given by the Loto du Patrimoine to the renovation of the Maison de Tante Léonie, works overseen by the Conseil départemental d'Eure-et-Loir. The cheque...
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