Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
15 August 2026
Pierre Lemaitre at the Maison de Tante Léonie The Maison de Tante Léonie will have the pleasure of welcoming Pierre Lemaitre, prix Goncourt 2013 for Au revoir là-haut, on Saturday 12 September 2026 at 3pm. On the occasion of this exceptional meeting, the writer will discuss his career, his work an...
Read more →14 August 2026
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 →26 June 2026
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 →20 June 2026
We are pleased to publish online an article by Emily Eells devoted to the relationship between Marcel Proust and the painter James McNeill Whistler. On the occasion of the major retrospective that Tate Britain is currently devoting to the American artist, Mme Eells looks back at the admiration...
Read more →16 May 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 16 MAY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proust and Renoir Alongside the two Renoir exhibitions being held at the Musée d'Orsay, and as an introduction to the visit planned for Monday 18 May, Emily Eells, a member of our board of directors and a specialist in particular in the relationship between Proust and painters, has written a text on Proust and Renoir, freely availabl
Read more →30 April 2026
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 →30 April 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 30 APRIL 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Meeting with Laurent Mauvignier, Prix Goncourt, at the Maison de Tante Léonie, on Saturday 27 June 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
Read more →30 April 2026
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 →30 April 2026
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 →19 April 2026
Here are the results of the 8th edition of our Proustian pastiche competition, announced on 19 April 2026 THE AWARD-WINNING PASTICHES ARE AVAILABLE VIA THIS LINK: /assets/actualites/archive-ancien-site/docspdf-palmarespastiches20252026.pdf General category: First prize: La passion verte de Madame Verdon,...
Read more →16 April 2026
As part of the "rencontres des amis de Marcel Proust", Natalie David-Weill will come and present, at the hôtel 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 →12 April 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 12 APRIL 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Acquisition of a portrait of Mr Van Blarenberghe by Paul Baignères The collections of the Musée Marcel Proust - Maison de Tante Léonie have just been enriched by the purchase, at public auction, for a very modest sum, of this pastel by Paul Baignères depicting Henri François Alexandre van Blarenbergue (1819-1906
Read more →6 April 2026
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 →31 March 2026
The collections of the Musée Marcel Proust - Maison de Tante Léonie have just been enriched by the purchase at public auction (Wattebled Portay auction house) of this pastel by Paul Baignères depicting Henri François Alexandre van Blarenbergue (1819-1906). Two reasons for this acquisition: Paul Baigner...
Read more →27 March 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 27 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, Unless we are mistaken, you have not yet renewed your membership for 2026. If you would like to do so, you may visit: - our HelloAsso page; - our online shop; - our website (particularly for payments by bank transfer). The support of all our members is e
Read more →15 March 2026
On Wednesday 18 March, at 7pm, at the hôtel 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 →15 March 2026
On Tuesday 24 March, at 7pm, at the hôtel 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 →13 March 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 13 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, * Unless we are mistaken, you have not yet renewed your membership for 2026. If you would like to do so, you may visit: - our HelloAsso page; - our online shop; - our website (particularly for payments by bank transfer). The support of all our members is es
Read more →2 March 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 2 MARCH 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Publication of "Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust" Announced a few weeks ago, our latest publication, Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust , has just been published. From Giotto to Delacroix, from the chiaroscuro of Rembrandt to the golden light of Vermeer, the Louvre was for Marcel Proust a veritable laboratory of the gaze. This broc
Read more →28 February 2026
To celebrate Marcel Proust's taste for literary pastiche, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is organising a Proustian pastiche competition. The writer often engaged in this game*, notably in 1908-1909, in a series of articles concerning the same news story, L'Affaire Lemoine. These pa...
Read more →27 February 2026
Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust — our new brochure is available! The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray is delighted to announce the publication of its latest work: Au Louvre avec Marcel Proust — trois visites guidées. From Giotto to Delacroix, from the chiaroscuro o...
Read more →22 February 2026
The collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust (Illiers-Combray) have just been enriched with the acquisition, at Christie's (the sale of the Stern collection), of a painting by Jean Béraud, « La Baigneuse ». Jean Béraud was a friend of Proust; he acted as his second in 1897 during his d...
Read more →17 February 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 17 FEBRUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proustian news In editorial news, let us note the following publications: - L'Écrivain cartographe ; pour une nouvelle rhétorique de l'espace chez Proust , by Chiara Nifosi (éditions Peter Lang) - Maurice Barrès, le grand écrivain retrouvé , a biography written by Michel Guénaire (éditions Perrin), in
Read more →8 February 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 8 FEBRUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proustian news Proustian editorial news is quite rich at the moment, with the following publications: - Sur les traces de John Ruskin , a collective work edited by Yasue Kato and François Proulx (Honoré Champion) - Proust en soutane , by Thierry Laget (éditions Fario) - Sur la route de l'I
Read more →23 January 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 23 JANUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Group visit to the Whistler exhibition, Tate Britain, Friday 29 May As announced in the previous letter, a group visit to the Whistler exhibition, presented by the London museum as " the first major European exhibition of Whistler's work in 30 years ", is being offered to members on Friday 29 M
Read more →18 January 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 18 JANUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proustian news In the Proustian news at the start of this year, let us note: - the publication, by Classiques Garnier, of Travaux Proustiens Choisis (1936-1989), by Philip Kolb - the online publication, freely accessible, of the French version of two articles published in The Irish Proust , a book
Read more →1 January 2026
At a public sale held in Louviers on 15 November, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust was able to acquire a "Coucher de soleil sur la mer", painted by Thomas Alexander Harrison (1853-1930). Proust had met this American painter during his stay in Beg-Meil in 1895, and h...
Read more →1 January 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 1 JANUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Evening presentation of the book "The Irish Proust" - 15 January, 6.30pm Niall Burgess, Ambassador of Ireland to France, has kindly informed us that members of our association are invited to a presentation of the recent book " The Irish Proust " (Bloomsbury), which deals with the influence of
Read more →10 July 2025
Announcement of the winners of the 2025 pastiche competition10 July 2025 The winners of the 7th edition of our pastiche competition are as follows: Category "over twenty-five"1st Prize: Mme Claire Leibovich for her pastiche La Bible de Sens ;Members' Prize: M. Philippe Morel...
Read more →22 June 2025
Entries to the 2025 edition of the Proustian pastiche competition are now closed, and the jury's dossier is available by clicking on this link. Members up to date with their 2025 subscription are invited to take part in the election of the "Members' Prize" in each of the tw...
Read more →8 May 2025
La Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust in the regional final of the "Monument préféré des Français" competition (FranceTv) ! In 1919, Marcel Proust was not, a priori, the favourite to win the Prix Goncourt against Roland Dorgelès and his harrowing account of the Great War...
Read more →23 March 2025
Announcement of the winners of the 2024-2025 reading competition23 March 2025 The winners of the 3rd edition of our reading competition are as follows: Category "over twenty-five"1st Prize & Members' Prize: Mme Anne-Catherine Favier for her reading no. 5 of Sodome et Gomorrhe ;2n...
Read more →16 March 2025
In order to celebrate Marcel Proust's fondness for literary pastiche, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is organising a Proustian pastiche competition. The writer often indulged in this game*, notably in 1908-1909, in a series of articles about the same news story, L'Affaire Lemoine. These pa...
Read more →16 March 2025
The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is launching a fundraising campaign for the restoration of the grave of Alfred Agostinelli, a key figure in the life and work of Marcel Proust. https://souscription.amisdeproust.fr/fr/ Alfred Agostinelli, born in Monaco on 11 October 1888, is well known...
Read more →16 February 2025
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 →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 →18 May 2024
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 →1 January 2024
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 →1 January 2024
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 →1 January 2024
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...
Read more →2 November 2023
The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has just published a new brochure presenting a work from its collections: the portrait of the Comtesse Potocka by Maria Prévot. This painting entered our collections at the end of 2022, when a young historian working for a Paris ant...
Read more →29 October 2023
Announcement of the Winners of the 2023 Reading Competition The winners of the 2nd edition of our reading competition are as follows: Category "over twenty-five"1st Prize: Mr Bastien Montes for his reading no. 34;2nd Prize: Mrs Khedija Maherzi for her reading no. 32;Members' p...
Read more →28 October 2023
Here are the winners of the 5th edition of our Proustian pastiche competition: General category1st Prize, « Mlle d'Azay », by Killian Huaulmé2nd Prize, « Le lac des cygnes », by Rachel GottliebMembers' prize, « La mort des poulets », by Philippe Morel Distinguished pastiches« Le nom des villes »,...
Read more →23 September 2023
The Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is organising in 2023 a second edition of the reading-aloud competition on the work of Marcel Proust. The competition is open in two categories: — category for participants under twenty-five;— category for participants over...
Read more →18 July 2023
HELP US RECREATE THE GARDEN OF THE "MAISON DE TANTE LEONIE", AS PROUST MAY HAVE KNOWN IT! The Société des Amis de Proust has just launched a major subscription campaign to fund the recreation of two sculptures that once stood in the garden of Jules Amiot,...
Read more →31 March 2023
The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is organising, for the 5th consecutive year, a Proustian pastiche competition, a modest reflection of the interest the writer took in this literary genre. Texts must be submitted before midnight on 31 March 2023. For more information: https://www.amisd...
Read more →2 January 2023
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Read more →1 January 2023
The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray is organising a design competition to replace its current logo and redesign the layout of the Bulletin. This competition is open to everyone: amateurs, professionals, legal entities. As a first step, candidates are invited to register...
Read more →23 November 2022
To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Marcel Proust, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray held two simple ceremonies yesterday: laying a bouquet of flowers at 44, rue Hamelin, where the writer died, then at the Père Lachaise cemetery, at his gra...
Read more →2 November 2022
Proustian Pastiche Competition 2021 Announcement of results Following the jury's deliberations, the Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is pleased to announce the results of the third edition of the Proustian pastiche competition. Congratulations to the winners, and a big tha...
Read more →27 October 2022
On Monday 21 November at 8.30pm, a concert-reading is being organised to commemorate the funeral of Marcel Proust, which was held one hundred years earlier to the day at the former church of Saint-Pierre de Chaillot. The evening, devised in partnership between the Paroisse Saint Pierre de Chaillot and the Soc...
Read more →20 October 2022
On 14 and 15 November 2022, the 5th edition of the conference "Proust et ses amis", co-organised by the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust and the Fondation Singer Polignac, will be held, based on an idea by Jean-Yves Tadié. Bookings are now closed, but the conference will be streamed live at https://singer-polignac.tv...
Read more →20 October 2022
Reading Competition 2022 The Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is organising, to celebrate the results of the reading competition, a ceremony at the Centre national du livre in Paris, 53 rue de Verneuil in the 7th arrondissement, on 20 October 2022 at 7pm. This cer...
Read more →5 June 2022
Reading Competition 2022 The Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is delighted to announce the winners of the reading-aloud competition: Category "over 25" 1st prize: Mr Benjamin Bonnin, reading no. 10, À la recherche du temps perdu 2nd prize: Mr Bastien Mo...
Read more →14 May 2022
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 →14 May 2022
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 →31 March 2022
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 →22 January 2022
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 →19 June 2021
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 →16 March 2021
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 →14 March 2021
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 →29 January 2021
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.
Read more →22 December 2020
The Association des Amis de Marcel Proust is pleased to announce the publication of Bulletin Marcel Proust n°70, the contents of which are detailed below. Please note that the Bulletin is available for purchase from the association's shop. The President's word, by Jérôme Bastianell...
Read more →13 November 2020
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 →7 November 2020
In this episode of Les Carnets de Julie, broadcast on France 3 on 21 December 2019, Julie Andrieu decides to sit down at Marcel Proust's table, at the Maison de Tante Léonie, in the company of a few members of the association: Monique Bailleau, Maxime Beucher, Anne Borrel, Gisèle Maini. As s...
Read more →7 November 2020
The company Le son des images (Alain Bujak, Claude Pavelek) filmed a short film this summer poetically portraying the Maison de Tante Léonie. Posted online on the two artists' website, it is also available to view below. Enjoy!
Read more →11 October 2020
30th Salon de la revue - 9, 10 & 11 October. The event is cancelled. The Bulletin Marcel Proust, with its special issue no. 70, will be taking part this year in the 30th edition of the Salon de la revue, which will be held this year on 9, 10 and 11 October 2020 at the Halle des Blancs Manteaux, 48, rue V...
Read more →7 October 2020
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 →26 September 2020
Bulletin Marcel Proust - Special Issue: "Proust pour la première fois". The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Bulletin Marcel Proust, entitled "Proust pour la première fois". Members of the association re...
Read more →6 September 2020
The Comédie Française has rescheduled, from 30 September, the adaptation by Christophe Honoré of Le Côté de Guermantes, which was due to be performed in the spring. For his first collaboration with the Comédie-Française, Christophe Honoré brings to the stage Le Côté de Guermantes, the third volume of À la re...
Read more →6 September 2020
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 →6 September 2020
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 →4 September 2020
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 →28 July 2020
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 →27 July 2020
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 →30 June 2020
With the support of the Fonds du patrimoine, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has exercised its right of pre-emption, for the collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie, which holds the "Musée de France" label, on this photograph of Reynaldo Hahn dedicated to Marcel Proust, put up for sale on 30 June by Sothebys. The lot...
Read more →17 June 2020
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 →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 →25 May 2020
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 →25 May 2020
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 →22 May 2020
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 →3 May 2020
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...
Read more →2 April 2020
The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust has just enriched the collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust through the acquisition of a drawing by Madeleine Lemaire, reproduced in Les plaisirs et les jours. Here is the description of this drawing on the website of the Johann Nal...
Read more →2 April 2020
INFORMATION 13 MARCH: THE FESTIVAL HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE. With more than thirty events – concerts, readings, talks, workshops, exhibitions, creations and immersive visits – programmed over twelve days, the unprecedented festival Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust invites the pu...
Read more →31 March 2020
Concours de pastiches proustiens 2020. Introduction. In order to recall Marcel Proust's taste for literary pastiche, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is organising a Proustian pastiche competition. The writer often indulged in this game*, notably in 1908-1909, in a series of articles concerning...
Read more →31 March 2020
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, The exhibition "Marcel Proust, prix Goncourt 1919" presented in the maison de Tante Léonie closed its doors on 25 August, after welcoming 6,250 visitors over 109 days, which is quite a success. I would like to thank our...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Saturday 21 March at 3pmMusée Jean-Jacques Henner43, avenue de Villiers - 75017 Paris « Au bal avec Marcel Proust » Ball and ballroom dance lessons (quadrilles, waltzes and polkas). Hosted by Claire Duport, dancer and choreo...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Friday 13 March at 7.30pmMusée Jean-Jacques Henner43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17e Concert: « Au piano avec Reynaldo Hahn ». Chansons grises by Reynaldo Hahn after Paul Verlaine. Portraits de peintres, piano pieces by Re...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Thursday 12 March at 7.30pmMusée Jean-Jacques Henner43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17e Opening concert: « Une sonate de Vinteuil », Sonata by César Franck, Sonate Nocturne by Reynaldo Hahn. Duo Älva, Aiko Okamura (violin), Hélèn...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Saturday 21 March at 4pmHôtel Littéraire le Swann11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8e Lecture by Annick Polin – A crossed journey through Literature & painting, Proust and Venice, « Voyage en Italie avec le narrateur proustien » An...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Friday 20 March at 4pmCafé Le Camondo61 bis rue de Monceau, Paris 8e Lecture by Michel Damblant on « Proust et la botanique » Paid consumption on site. Click here to register.
Read more →22 March 2020
UPDATE OF 12 MARCH: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A DATE NOT YET FIXED Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Saturday 14 March from 11am to noon.Citeco - Musée de la Banque de France1 place du Général Catroux, Paris 17e Jean-Yves Tadié, vice-pr...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Friday 20 March at 7pmHôtel Littéraire le Swann11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8e Lecture « Proust et la politique » by Gérard Desanges, in conversation with Jérôme Bastianelli, president of the Société des Amis de Marcel Pr...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Tuesday 17 March at 7pmHôtel Littéraire le Swann11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8e Lecture « Proust et les hôtels de la Recherche » by Jacques Letertre. After an earlier lecture devoted to the hotels frequented by...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Thursday 19 March at 8pmMusée Gustave Moreau14 rue de La Rochefoucauld, Paris 9e Reading: Écrits sur l'art, an anthology read by Benjamin Baroche Price: museum admission fee (a ticket bought during the day on 19 March...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Sunday 15 March at 4pmHôtel Littéraire Le Swann11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8e Isabelle Mentré, Balbec plage, a reading performance based on À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Free admission. Click here to regist...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020 Monday 16 March at 7pmHôtel Littéraire Le Swann11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8e Éditions Thélème – Readings from Céleste Albaret by the actress Marianne Denicourt. Free admission. Click here to register. Céleste Albaret...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Wednesday 18 March at 5pm. A Proustian walk through Paris with Michel Erman, author of Le Paris de Proust. Free entry. Click here to register.
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Thursday 19 March at 8.15pm, Hôtel Littéraire le Swann, 11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8th. Meeting / talk: How to draw Vinteuil's sonata? With the illustrator Stéphane Heuet, author of the graphic-novel adaptation...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Saturday 14 March at 4pm, Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, 43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17th. Meeting / talk: PROUSTITUDINATIONS: L'invention de la Recherche, one hour and thirty riddles on Marcel Proust, with François Bon, author of Prou...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Thursday 19 March at 6pm, Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, 43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17th. For one evening at the museum, come and enjoy a unique drawing class with the exceptional presence of dancers from the Opéra...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Wednesday 18 March at 7pm, Hôtel Littéraire le Swann, 11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8th. Round table "Has Proust's world really vanished?" with Camille Pascal & Michel Erman. Camille Pascal is the author of Derni...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Monday 16 March at 7pm, Aéro-club de France, 6 rue Galilée, Paris 16th. Talk by Jean-François Feuillette. Proust, the writers and aviation: "The air crackled with a watchful, resonant vibration". Free entry. Click here...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Saturday 14 March at 7pm, Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann, 11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8th. Round table "Proust, music and Reynaldo Hahn" with Cécile Leblanc, Luc Fraisse and Jérôme Bastianelli. Free entry. Click here to...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Thursday 12 March at 6pm, Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, 43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17th. Opening of the exhibition "Dans l'intimité de Marcel Proust", in collaboration with the Musée Tante Léonie-Marcel Proust in Illiers-Combray. Fre...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Tuesday 17 March at 5.30pm, Librairie Fontaine Haussmann, 50 rue de Laborde, Paris 8th. Opening of the exhibition "Souvenirs de Céleste Albaret". Photographs and manuscripts lent by the Hôtel Littéraire le Swann. Fre...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Wednesday 11 March at 7pm, Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann, 11-15 rue de Constantinople, Paris 8th. Opening of the festival: opening of the exhibition of original plates by Stéphane Heuet. He has been adapting A La recherche du Temps P...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Thursday 12 March at 11am, Musée Nissim de Camondo, 63 Rue de Monceau, Paris 8th. A private tour of the Musée Nissim de Camondo led by the national accredited guide Lucile Dupuis-Stellakis. A literary soul drawn by the History of Art, Luc...
Read more →22 March 2020
Festival "Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust" from 11 to 22 March 2020. Friday 20 March at 6.30pm, Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, 43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17th. "An evening at the Dubufes' with Marcel Proust": a mystical and silent journey into the heart of Marcel Proust's dreams, in a house hau...
Read more →14 March 2020
On Monday 16 March at 4pm, at the invitation of Antoine Compagnon, Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, translator of Proust into Japanese, will give a lecture entitled: "Proust Mondain et Moderniste" More information on this website.
Read more →14 March 2020
On Monday 23 March at 4pm, at the invitation of Antoine Compagnon, Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, translator of Proust into Japanese, will give a lecture entitled: "Proust juif et homosexuel" More information on this website.
Read more →14 March 2020
On Monday 30 March at 4pm, at the invitation of Antoine Compagnon, Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, translator of Proust into Japanese, will give a lecture at the Collège de France entitled: "Proust juif et homosexuel" More information on this website.
Read more →14 March 2020
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 →10 March 2020
As part of the cultural programme of the Mairie du 8e arrondissement of Paris, Cécile Leblanc will give a lecture on "Proust et la Musique" on Tuesday 10 March 2020 at 6pm at the Hôtel Cail, 56 boulevard Malesherbes, Paris 8e. A graduate (agrégée) in classical literature, Cécile Leblanc is a senior le...
Read more →8 March 2020
On Sundays and Mondays, from 20 January to 30 March, the théâtre de la Contrescarpe (Paris V) is presenting a stage adaptation of À la recherche du temps perdu, directed by Virgil Tanase, with David Legras. Members of our association enjoy a special rate, half price, at...
Read more →7 March 2020
The Château de Versailles is presenting, until 15 March, an exhibition entitled "Versailles Revival". It examines the fascination of artists and writers for the château, between 1867 and 1937. A section is devoted to Marcel Proust, notably featuring the painting of the château park q...
Read more →6 March 2020
As part of the seminar "Multilingualism, translation, creation / 2019-2020" at the École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris 5e, on 6 March 2020, between 3pm and 5pm, salle Weil, Emily Eells will give a lecture entitled "Open Sesame": foreignness in Proust's...
Read more →2 March 2020
Mr KENTARO OSHIMA will defend his thesis with a view to obtaining the degree of Doctorate in French Literature and Civilisation. The title of the work is: Reading in Marcel Proust. The work is supervised by Ms MIREILLE NATUREL. The jury will be composed of Antoine Compagnon (Collège de F...
Read more →26 February 2020
A study day is being organised by Sophie Duval and Francine Goujon on Thursday 12 March at the École normale supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm, salle Jean Jaurès, from 9.30am to 6pm, on the theme: A « MYSTERIOUS CHEMISTRY »: PROUST AND ALLUSION Enfin, chaque fois que Ruskin, par voie de citation mais bien...
Read more →26 February 2020
Thursday 19 March at 8pm, at the Médiathèque d'Argentan (Orne), a reading performance based on Marcel Proust, with the Cercle Vincent Muselli, Isabelle Guiard and Gérard Torikian. More information on this website.
Read more →26 February 2020
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...
Read more →26 February 2020
A round table "Literary heritage and territory - writers' houses in networks" will be held as part of the Semaine des Arts & Médias of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, on Thursday 12 March 2020 from 2pm to 4pm in amphitheatre D03, building D, Censi...
Read more →24 February 2020
The reading by Xavier Gallais of extracts from the Recherche concerning gastronomy will take place at the théâtre de l'oeuvre (Paris IXe), on Monday 24 February 2020 at 8pm. The show, originally scheduled for December 2019, had to be postponed owing to the social unrest. All the inform...
Read more →11 February 2020
Several winners of the 2019 Proustian pastiche competition agreed to answer a few questions about the experience. As a reminder, the 2020 edition is open until 31 March. And the texts of all the finalists are available here or there. Why did you take part...
Read more →8 February 2020
The Association des Amis de Marcel Proust is pleased to announce the publication of Bulletin Marcel Proust n°69, whose contents are detailed below. Please note that the Bulletin is available for purchase in the association's shop. CONTENTS OF BULLETIN 69 (December 2019) Word from the presi...
Read more →3 February 2020
On the recommendation of Jean-Yves Tadié, vice-president of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust, the association has just acquired, from a bookseller on the rue de l'Odéon in Paris, an unpublished letter in which Marcel Proust, in 1919, asks Albert Nahmias to intervene with Robert Morane, a pio...
Read more →25 January 2020
Public premiere of Reynaldo Hahn's Trio en fa majeur for violin, cello and piano. The concert by the Frivolités parisiennes, "Une soirée au salon de Madeleine Lemaire", will take place on Thursday 23 January at 7pm at the Mairie du XIe arrondissement in Paris. It is organised with the...
Read more →18 January 2020
For the "Nuit de la lecture" organised by the Ministère de la Culture, several Proustian events are planned throughout France: https://nuitdelalecture.culture.gouv.fr/Programme#/search?query=proust@47.187188508519796,3.0854194060820817,6.029676085572353
Read more →17 January 2020
On Monday 9 March at 4pm, at the invitation of Antoine Compagnon, Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, translator of Proust into Japanese, will give a lecture entitled: "How to translate À la recherche du temps perdu?" More information on this website.
Read more →17 January 2020
On Monday 2 March at 3pm, at the University of Strasbourg, Luc Fraisse will give a lecture entitled "Can unpublished works by Proust still be found?". More information on this website.
Read more →6 January 2020
On 6 February 2020, at 7.30pm, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann (Paris VIIIe), to mark the centenary of the Prix Goncourt awarded to Marcel Proust for his book « À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs », the second volume of the novel cycle « À la recherche du temps perdu », La Soci...
Read more →4 January 2020
Interviewed by Nicolas Ragonneau for the Proustonomics website, Jérôme Bastianelli, President of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray, presents the association's achievements and prospects in this interview published on 4 January 2020. Available by clicking on this link.
Read more →1 January 2020
Monday 20 January at 8pm, at Divonne-les-Bains (esplanade du lac), Claude Wittezaele will give a lecture entitled "Avec Marcel Proust, un itinéraire artistique". More information on this site.
Read more →1 January 2020
Sunday 19 January at 3.30pm, Jean-Yves Tadié will present his book "Marcel Proust, croquis d’une épopée" (éditions Gallimard), at the Maison de Balzac (Paris XVIe). Free admission. More information on this site.
Read more →1 January 2020
Saturday 25 January at 8pm, at the théâtre Le Relais (76590 Le Catelier), the actress Séverine Batier will give a theatrical performance inspired by the work of Marcel Proust and entitled "Phénix". More information on this site.
Read more →1 January 2020
Wednesday 26 February, in the function hall of the town hall of the 11th arrondissement of Paris, a symposium is being organised entitled: De la belle époque aux années folles, Arts, littérature et genres sexuels au temps de Marcel Proust et André Gide. Here is the programme: 9:15 Welcome of participant...
Read more →17 December 2019
On Friday 20 December, at 7pm, at the espace Cardin (Paris VIIIe), Jean-Pierre Ollivier, cardiologist, author of "Proust et les sciences" (éditions Honoré Champion) will present a paper on the theme "Marcel Proust et la relativité : Proust-Einstein, 1905-1922", on the occas...
Read more →16 December 2019
On Saturday 14 December, under the direction of Mireille Naturel, a study day is being held on the theme "Marcel Proust, prix Goncourt 1919". The study day, initially scheduled at the université de la Sorbonne (Paris III) which is at risk of being closed due to...
Read more →12 December 2019
On 17 December at 7pm, at the Bibliothèque Parmentier (Paris XIe), Evelyne Bloch-Dano will give a lecture on "Madame Proust". More information on this site. UPDATE OF 12 DECEMBER: THE LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Read more →12 December 2019
The librairie Liber & Co, in Le Palais (Belle-Île-en-Mer), is holding, on Sunday 29 December at 6pm, a meeting with Nicolas Ragonneau, author of "Proust, Commercy 1915", translator of "Dans les pas de Marcel Proust" (by William Friedkin), a member of the Société des Amis de Marcel Prou...
Read more →9 December 2019
Publication of the 49th Bulletin d'informations proustiennes, published by the éditions de la rue d'Ulm, featuring, in particular, the presentation of a remarkable drawing by Marcel Proust. Contents Foreword by Nathalie Mauriac DYER Unpublished textsA letter from Marcel Proust to René Boylesve (December 1913), by Caroline SZYLOWI...
Read more →4 December 2019
A general meeting of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust was held on Wednesday 4 December 2019 at the Collège de France. The general meeting voted unanimously, among those present and represented, in favour of the revision of the association's statutes, which was on the agenda.Th...
Read more →30 November 2019
On 30 November 2019, the members of the association des Amis de Marcel Proust will gather at Illiers-Combray for their traditional autumn day. This day will notably be an opportunity to take one last look at the Maison de Tante Léonie before the renovation works th...
Read more →26 November 2019
On Sunday 1 December at 3pm, in the galerie T-Room at La Roche-Guyon (Eure), Mme Prévost-Avenati, a SAMP member, will lead, alongside Judith Lurcel, a lecture-reading on the centenary of the Prix Goncourt. Reservations are recommended by writing to gise.prevost@gmail.com.
Read more →26 November 2019
On Saturday 7 December at 4pm, at Le Chenal (a restaurant, tea room and bookshop in Porspoder), Michel Damblant, author of "Voyage botanique et sentimental du côté de chez Proust", will give a talk on the love life of plants, drawing on extracts from the Recherche.
Read more →22 November 2019
On Thursday 28 November, in the function hall of the town hall of the 11th arrondissement of Paris, a study day entitled "Marcel Proust et André Gide" will be held from 9.30am to 6pm, with numerous lectures on various subjects (the programme is available via this link). Free admis...
Read more →17 November 2019
On Sunday 8 December at 4pm at the Château de Bézyl (35), Sylvie Stéphanides and Ghassan Dhaouk will give a show entitled "Du piano du côté de chez Proust". Conceived as a dialogue between music and words, this show invites the audience to enter the world of Marcel Proust in a different way. Th...
Read more →10 November 2019
A friendly gathering of Proust enthusiasts organised by Laurence Grenier at the Librairie Delamain, Tuesday 19 November at 7pm. More information on this site.
Read more →10 November 2019
On the occasion of the publication of his new book "Marcel Proust, croquis d’une épopée", Jean-Yves Tadié is the guest of the librairie Gallimard on Wednesday 27 November 2019, from 7pm to 9pm. More information on this site.
Read more →5 November 2019
On Thursday 21 November at 5.30pm, at the Cité des Sciences (Paris XIXe), as part of the "TimeWorld" symposium, Antoine Compagnon will give a lecture entitled "Qu’entend Proust par le Temps retrouvé". More information on this site.
Read more →5 November 2019
To celebrate the centenary of the Prix Goncourt awarded to Marcel Proust, the éditions Thélème, which published the complete audiobook of À la recherche du temps perdu, invite listeners to hear the most emblematic passages of this work read by Valérie Bonneton, Denis Lavant and Laurent Nat...
Read more →3 November 2019
Sunday 10 November from 1.30pm to 8.30pm, at the hôtel Le Swann (Paris VIIIe), Véronique Aubouy will attempt to sum up A la Recherche du temps perdu in seven hours. Admission charged (5 to 10 euros), by reservation. More information on this page.
Read more →3 November 2019
Wednesday 6 November at 7.30pm, at the Hôtel Le Swann, Laure Hillerin will present her new book, devoted to Anna Gould and Boni de Castellane. This biography naturally evokes the friendship between Proust and Boni de Castellane. More information on this site.
Read more →3 November 2019
On the occasion of the 22nd Fête du livre du Var, Baptiste Liger will chair a round table in Toulon, on Saturday 16 November at 4.15pm, with Luc Fraisse, Stéphane Heuet and Thierry Laget, on the theme "Marcel Proust et le prix Goncourt". More information on this Facebook page.
Read more →31 October 2019
A leading specialist on Frédéric Chopin and curator of the Reynaldo Hahn exhibitions, the musicologist Jean-Yves Patte is organising the exhibition « Venezia — Reynaldo Hahn, Marcel Proust et Mariano Fortuny » at the Palazetto Bru Zane in Venice, from 21 May to 31 October 2019. More information avail...
Read more →30 October 2019
On 10 July (Marcel Proust's birthday), the auction house Beaussant-Lefevre held an auction at Drouot of letters, mostly unpublished, from Proust to his friend Louis d’Albuféra. The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust took part in this sale t...
Read more →30 October 2019
From 24 to 26 June, in Paris and in Dives-sur-Mer: conference "À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, prix Goncourt 1919", co-organised by Mireille Naturel and Eugène Nicole. The full programme is available on this website. Participation requires prior registration by writing t...
Read more →30 October 2019
Saturday 7 September, at 7:30pm, at the Opéra du Rhin (Strasbourg), lecture by Luc Fraisse, Thierry Laget and Xavier Gallais on the 100th anniversary of the prix Goncourt. Free admission. More information available at this link.
Read more →30 October 2019
THE CENTENARY EXHIBITION Drouant, 10 December 1919: Marcel Proust receives the 17th prix Goncourt for À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, the second volume of À la recherche du temps perdu. This decision marked a turning point: a new literary era began with the recognition of a novel without eq...
Read more →30 October 2019
On the occasion of the centenary of the prix Goncourt awarded to Proust, éditions Gallimard, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust and the Conseil départemental d’Eure-et-Loir present an exceptional exhibition bringing together original manuscripts, the correspondence between Proust and Galli...
Read more →30 October 2019
Sunday 15 September at the château de Maintenon (Eure-et-Loir), "journée proustienne" with the writer Jean Ferrière and the painter Bruno Sari. More information available on this website.
Read more →30 October 2019
As part of the literary lectures organised by the town hall of the 11th arrondissement of Paris, Jean-Yves Tadié will give a lecture at the Bibliothèque Parmentier, on Tuesday 22 October, on the relationship between Marcel Proust and André Gide. More information on this website.
Read more →30 October 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, The Proustian visit to Cabourg and its surroundings, which was announced a few weeks ago, will take place on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September. It is now possible to register on our website. The programme for this weekend has be...
Read more →30 October 2019
On 8 October at 7pm, in partnership with éditions Bernard de Fallois, the Hôtels Littéraires are organising at the Swann a presentation of around ten previously unpublished short stories by Marcel Proust, introduced and explained by Luc Fraisse.Le Mystérieux correspondant et autres nouvelles inéditesMarcel ProustSui...
Read more →30 October 2019
Wednesday 19 June at 7pm, award ceremony for the 2019 prix Céleste Albaret at the hôtel littéraire Le Swann (Paris VIIIe). Information on this page.
Read more →30 October 2019
On Wednesday 20 November 2019, in the auditorium of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, a round table entitled "Que reste-t-il des Jeunes filles en fleurs" will take place, with Jérôme Bastianelli, Luc Fraisse and Éric Laurrent. The round table will be chaired by Stéphane Chaudier. More information...
Read more →30 October 2019
Wednesday 22 May at 7pm at the Librairie Gallimard (Paris VIIe), meeting between Thierry Laget and Jean-Yves Tadié on the book "Proust, Prix Goncourt. Une émeute littéraire". More information on the bookshop's website.
Read more →30 October 2019
Presentation on this page. SAMP members receive the reduced rate by calling 04 67 63 66 67.
Read more →30 October 2019
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 →30 October 2019
From 3 to 25 June, the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) presents a play inspired by Proust entitled "Je poussais donc le temps avec l’épaule". More information on the theatre's website.
Read more →27 October 2019
This event, which will take place on 26 and 27 October 2019, serves two objectives: to celebrate, in an original way, the centenary of the prix Goncourt awarded to Proust in 1919 for A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs: the specific event chosen is the final selection of the nomine...
Read more →17 October 2019
Saturday 9 November at 3pm, at the Maison de la Vie Associative et Citoyenne (Paris XVIe), Michel Damblant, author of "Voyage botanique et sentimental du côté de chez Proust", will give a lecture, in aid of the association "La deuxième marche", on the love life of plants, with sever...
Read more →17 October 2019
From 28 to 30 November, in Berlin, an international conference on the theme « Marcel Proust und das Judentum », organised by the Marcel Proust Gesellschaft, with, among the French-speaking speakers, Antoine Compagnon, Evelyne Bloch-Dano and Philippe Berthier. More information...
Read more →17 October 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, Here are a few Proustian events taking place in the coming days: On Tuesday 22 October, at 7pm, at the Bibliothèque Parmentier (Paris XIe), Jean-Yves Tadié will give a lecture on the relationship between Marcel Proust and André Gide. This lect...
Read more →3 October 2019
On 3 October 2019, on the occasion of the publication of « Proust, Commercy 1915 » by Maurice Vendôme – letters selected and annotated by Nicolas Ragonneau – and of the translation of « Dans les pas de Marcel Proust » by William Friedkin, by Nicolas Ragonneau with a preface by Jérôme Prieur,...
Read more →2 October 2019
On Wednesday 2 October 2019, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust acquired at public auction, at Drouot, a drypoint by Paul César Helleu. This work enriches the collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie, in Illiers-Combray. The sale catalogue did not specify who the lady depict...
Read more →2 October 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, The collections of the Maison de Tante Léonie were enriched today with the purchase at public auction, at Drouot, of a drypoint by Paul César Helleu. The sale catalogue did not specify who the lady depicted in this dra...
Read more →30 September 2019
Annual membership subscriptions are essential to the running of the association; they help fund the publication of the Bulletin Marcel Proust, enable the Musée Marcel Proust to open to the public, and contribute to financing the upkeep of the "Maison de tante Léonie" and...
Read more →30 September 2019
Since July 2019, thanks to a partnership with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, past Bulletins have been freely accessible on the Gallica website. Keyword search is not yet functional but should be available shortly (expected date: October 2019). Click&n...
Read more →22 September 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, A brief letter to let you know of an event that was not mentioned in the 7 September mailing: Thursday 26 September at 7pm, at the Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris (located on the quai d’Orléans), Mme Pyra Wise, of the "Proust" tea...
Read more →15 September 2019
Stay of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust in Cabourg, Friday evening 13 September - Sunday afternoon 15 September 2019 "Having learned that there was, in Cabourg, a hotel, the most comfortable on the whole coast, I went there. Since I have been here, I have been able to get up and go out every...
Read more →7 September 2019
Booking required at evenements.shlp@bplp.fr. More information in the attached document.
Read more →2 August 2019
From 29 July to 2 August 2019, from 9am to 11am, France Culture, as part of the programme "Les Grandes Traversées", broadcasts previously unpublished recordings of Céleste Albaret. She was an uneducated countrywoman before working alongside Marcel Proust. Devoted and strong-willed servant of one of the greatest writers of the 20th cent...
Read more →19 July 2019
Thursday 18 and Friday 19 July 2019 at the Université de Padoue, conference "Proust et les écrans", organised by Geneviève Henrot Sostero and Ilaria Vidotto. The programme is available here.
Read more →10 July 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, Today (Marcel Proust's birthday) an auction was held at Drouot of letters, mostly unpublished, from Proust to his friend Louis d’Albuféra. We took part in this sale to acquire three&nb...
Read more →9 July 2019
Tuesday 9 July 2019, in Reims, as part of the Flâneries musicales, concert-reading "les fleurs fugitives de Marcel Proust" by pianist Jean-Philippe Collard and actor Lambert Wilson. More information on the festival website.
Read more →6 July 2019
Saturday 6 July 2019, at 5pm, at the Grand Hôtel de Cabourg, Jean-Yves Tadié will give a lecture on the theme "Proust et l’hôtel" This lecture is organised by the Cercle Littéraire de Cabourg-Balbec.
Read more →15 June 2019
VISIT TO AMIENS CATHEDRAL Saturday 15 June 2019 "I should like to give the reader the desire and the means to spend a day in Amiens as a kind of Ruskinian pilgrimage."Preface to John Ruskin's Bible d'Amiens, Marcel Proust REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED...
Read more →1 January 2019
On the occasion of the release of their new album, Li-Kung Kuo and Cédric Lorel present, at the salle Cortot, a violin/piano recital inspired by Marcel Proust and the Belle Époque. SAMP members benefit from a promotional rate (15 euros instead of 20), obtained as follo...
Read more →1 January 2019
On Friday 29 November at the École Normale Supérieure (29 rue d’Ulm, though entry is now generally via 24 rue Lhomond), a STUDY DAY "EN RELISANT JEAN SANTEUIL" will be held, organised by Stéphane Chaudier and Jean-Marc Quaranta. It is open to all. Here is the pro...
Read more →1 January 2019
On the occasion of the publication of the French translation, by éditions Buchet-Chastel, of his book "Proust latino", concerning the writer's South American connections, Rubén Gallo will be in conversation with Laure Murat, French writer and historian, professor at the University of Cal...
Read more →1 January 2019
On Tuesday 3 December at 7pm, the bookshop L’Infinie Comédie (6 rue René Roeckel, 92340 Bourg-la-Reine) is holding a meeting, hosted by Nicolas Ragonneau, with Thierry Laget and Jean-Yves Tadié, on the occasion of their latest Proust-related publications. More information on this website.
Read more →1 January 2019
Monday 9 December at 9pm, at the Maison de la Poésie (Paris IIIe), meeting between the writer Thierry Laget and the actor Thibault de Montalembert, on the subject of Proust, previously unpublished short stories and the centenary of the prix Goncourt. More information on this website.
Read more →29 May 2001
A conference organised by Michel Damblant following the publication of his book "Voyage botanique & sentimental du côté de chez Proust" (29 May 2019). His research into the writer led him to discover that Proust used to st...
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