Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
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Read more →A member of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has just sent us extracts from the unpublished memoirs of his great-great-uncle, Jean de Chimay (1890-1968), nephew of the comtesse Greffulhe née Chimay and of the princesse Alexandre de Caraman Chimay.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 →At the proposal of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust and following a favourable opinion from the mayor of Illiers-Combray, the préfète of Eure-et-Loir has authorised the reopening of the Maison de Tante Léonie, from Friday 15 May. Come and see us if you are within 100 km, it is an opportunity...
Read more →25 May 2020
Tribute to Annette Heumann Weil. We learned with sadness of the death, at the age of 99, of Mrs Annette Heumann, née Weil, daughter of Adèle Weil, first cousin of Marcel Proust, to whom the writer was very attached. Mrs Heumann had been deported with her parents during the Second...
Read more →21 May - France 3 - spotlight on La Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust. Among the very first museums in the region to reopen following the closure of the region's cultural venues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maison de Tante Léonie was featured...
Read more →17 May 2020
Anne Imbert, art historian and member of our association, has just written a text presenting two of our recent acquisitions: an original drawing by Madeleine Lemaire, used as an illustration in Les Plaisirs et les Jours, and a letter from Félix Fénéon to Paul Signac. This...
Read more →17 May 2020
Concours de pastiches proustiens 2020. Announcement of the results. Following the jury's deliberations, the association des Amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is delighted to announce the results of the second edition of the Proustian pastiche competition. Congratula...
Read more →14 May 2020
We learned with sadness of the death of Robert Kahn, former senior lecturer at the Université de Rouen, known in particular for his translations of Franz Kafka. Robert Kahn was also an eminent Proustian, since the thesis he had defended at the Université Paris III was entitled...
Read more →14 May 2020
The 2020 edition of the Concours de pastiches proustiens organised by the Société has just come to a close: texts had to be submitted before midnight on 31 March. 54 pastiches were received: 47 in the amateur category, 5 in the professional category and two in the school category. 5 pastich...
Read more →14 May 2020
The Proustonomics website offers a great Proustian quiz, in 100 questions. Test your knowledge of the work and life of Marcel Proust! https://proustonomics.com/grand-quizz-marcel-proust-100-questions/
Read more →In its 19 April edition, the Journal du Dimanche published this pastiche of Proust, written by Marc Lambron, of the Académie Française: It was thus that on summer evenings at Combray, as I lay stretched out on the bed of the room that the rays of the sun had adorned during the d...
Read more →2 May 2020
Tribute to Annette Heumann Weil. We learned with sadness of the death, at the age of 99, of Mrs Annette Heumann, née Weil, daughter of Adèle Weil, first cousin of Marcel Proust, to whom the writer was very attached. Mrs Heumann had been deported with her parents during the Second...
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