Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
In view of the temperatures still forecast for tomorrow at Illiers-Combray and the train cancellations planned by the SNCF between Chartres and Illiers-Combray, we regret that we must postpone to 3 October, 3pm, the meeting with Laurent Mauvignier, prix Goncourt 2025, initially scheduled for 27 Ju...
Read more →As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann welcomes Olivier Philipponnat, editor of the new edition of Louis de Robert's Roman du malade (Prix Femina 1911), on Thursday 17 September at 7pm. A book Proust admired, by an author who was the first reader of Du côté de chez Swann.
Read more →As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Society is pleased to welcome Laurent Vinatier, a researcher specialising in the post-Soviet world, imprisoned in Russia between June 2024 and January 2026, who discovered Proust's work during that captivity...
Read more →On Saturday 27 June, at 3pm, Laurent Mauvignier, Prix Goncourt 2025 for "La Maison vide" (éditions de Minuit), will come to present his work at the Maison de Tante Léonie, at 3pm. A signing session will follow, at 4pm, in the Orangerie. This invitation is almost self-eviden...
Read more →On the occasion of the "Nuit européenne des musées", on Saturday 23 May 2026, Ivan Morane will read, at the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust, extracts from the correspondence of Marcel Proust with Anna de Noailles (whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated this year). And also...
Read more →On Saturday 23 May, at 3.30pm, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has invited the pianist Philippe Cassard to give a "Proustian" recital in the church at Illiers-Combray. Here is the programme. Free admission. The programme, detailed in this document https://amisdeproust.fr/images/DocsPdf/P...
Read more →As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is delighted to welcome Dosithée Yeatman for a lecture entitled: « Madeleine et Léon Yeatman : une amitié proustienne » Through the memories passed down by her family and the sensitive perspective she...
Read more →As part of the "rencontres des amis de Marcel Proust", Natalie David-Weill will come and present, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann, on Thursday 16 April at 7pm, her recently published book "La Petite Fille au ruban bleu". It is a portrait of Irène Cahen d’Anvers and her family, notab
Read more →On Tuesday 24 March, at 7pm, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann (Paris VIIIe), as part of the "rencontres des amis de Proust": presentation by Philippe Blay and members of the quatuor Tchalik of a new recording of works by Reynaldo Hahn (including the Trio, composed partly at Beg-Meil during the stay...
Read more →On Wednesday 18 March, at 7pm, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann (Paris VIIIe), as part of the "rencontres des amis de Proust": Barthélémy Etchegoyen Glama will come and present the Musée Bonnat-Helleu, which he directs and which has just reopened in Bayonne. As its name suggests, the museum...
Read more →The Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is organising a third edition of the reading-aloud competition devoted to the work of Marcel Proust in 2024. The competition is open in two categories: — a category for participants under twenty-five; — a category for participants ov...
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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