Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
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 →31 March 2022
21 May 2022 - Publication of results General category: First prize – Brichot remplacé (by Ulysse Marquet) Second prize – L'ami perdu (by Viviane Le Mer) Members' prize – Cottard Président ! (by Thierry Joffredo) Distinguished pastiche – La Société des Amis de Bergotte (by Patricia B...
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 →16 January 2022
Bulletin Marcel Proust n° 71 (2021) has just been published, edited by Elyane Dezon-Jones, and with a new layout designed by Aude Andrault. It is sent to all members whose membership is up to date as of 31 December 2021, and can also be purchased on our website: https://...
Read more →To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Proust, on Saturday 10 July 2021, numerous events are being jointly organised by the Mairie d'Illiers-Combray and the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust. The provisional programme can be consulted by clicking on...
Read more →15 May 2021
Fifty-five texts were received for the third Proustian pastiche competition organised by the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray. Thank you to all the participants! The results will be announced on 15 May 2021.
Read more →Throughout the two lockdowns linked to the Covid-19 epidemic, the Société des amis de Marcel Proust posted a quotation from Proust every day on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Find below the full set of these quotations, in descending chronological order: #UneCitat...
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...
Read more →Exhibition "Les assises du temps perdu" by Anthony Guerrée with Atelier Jespers at Cornette de Saint Cyr from 1 to 12 February 2021 Monday to Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 11am - 6pm CORNETTE DE SAINT CYR 6, avenue Hoche 75008 PARIS Member Anthon...
Read more →31 December 2020
The Bibliothèque nationale de France has launched a subscription campaign, open until 31 December 2020, for the acquisition of a copy of the original edition of Du côté de chez Swann, dedicated in 1915 to Marie Scheikévitch... More information on this site.
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