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This little boy in his holiday clothes is Jacques Bizet, Proust’s first “love”.
🤍 He is the son of the composer Georges Bizet, 🎩🎻 who enjoyed enormous posthumous success thanks to his opera “Carmen”, adapted from Mérimée’s short story… and...
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The small publishing house @editionsducanoe were kind enough to send me two titles from their wonderful catalogue…
The lovely folks at @editionsducanoe were kind enough to send me two books from their wonderful catalogue last week, and I absolutely devoured them! 😛 These are: 💜 1....
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Bargains from second-hand bookshops
🤓✨ Finds at the second-hand bookshops ✨📚 Featuring, in order of appearance: 📘1. Akio Ushiba, “The Image of Water in In Search of Lost Time: Function and Evolution”....
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Competition! ✨ on @proustagram: try your luck at winning the previously unpublished volume by Marcel Proust, “Le Temps perdu”…
✨ Competition! ✨ on @proustagram: be in with a chance to win the previously unpublished volume by Marcel Proust, “Le Temps perdu”, published by @jeanmarc.quaranta for...
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Have you always wanted to find a good summary of “In Search of Lost Time”?
🤓 Lucky them! Marcel Proust wrote just that in a few pages to Madame Scheikévitch, on the opening pages of his copy of “Swann's Way”. 📖🖋️ This text has remained...
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“In Honour of Mr Proust”: a one-hour discussion between Charles Dantzig and Dany Laferrière, hosted by…
Josyane Savigneau as part of the Atlantide 2023 festival! 📚🤓❤️🩹 @cdantzig @dany.laferriere @josavigneau @atlantide.festival
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Charles Swann.
🦢❤️🩹 The name alone sounds like the keystone of Proust’s novel, and “Swann in Love” is Proust’s most widely read work. 🙌🏻📖✨ All too often, unfortunately, that’s all...
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Marcel Proust’s 100th anniversary, in the monthly magazine “Europe”!
💜✨ In the combined issues of August–September 1970 (496–497) and February–March 1971 (502–503), “Europe” celebrated in advance the centenary of the birth of Marcel...
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But who exactly is this Albertine Simonet (with just one ‘n’), who shares with Swann the immense honour…
But who exactly is this Albertine Simonet (with just one “n”), who shares with Swann the immense honour of being an eponymous character in “In Search of Lost Time”?...
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Parisian geography: the exhausting Sunday saga!
Parisian geography: Sunday’s exhausting tale! 🥱😮💨 The @museecarnavalet, the City of Paris History Museum, was well placed a year ago to organise a wonderful...
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Keep an eye on the clock 🕰️, take a good look at yourself 🫣…
and get to work! 📝📓🖋️📖📚 Here are some great resolutions for 2023, which is just getting underway on @proustagram! 🙌🏻✨ That’s the theme of our New Year’s Day stories...
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“The End of Jealousy”, a short story from 1896
🤓📚✨ “The End of Jealousy” had already struck me as the finest short story in the collection “Pleasures and Days”, published in 1896 by @calmann.levy, if my notes in...
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Mademoiselle de Saint-Loup
✨ Mademoiselle de Saint-Loup ✨ Who is she? When and how is she introduced in the novel? What does she symbolise in the narrator’s eyes? 🤓📚 This Sunday’s story is in...
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Proust gift ideas!
✨ Proust gift ideas! ✨ What are you going to put under the Christmas tree at @ritzparis (or your own) this year? 🎄🎁📚 Which Proustian ‘must-have’ are you going to...
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“André Devambez: the dizzying heights of the imagination”
🖼️✨ A superb exhibition organised by @petitpalais_musee from 9 September 2022 to 5 February 2023 (extended). 🤓 Devambez was born four years before Proust. A...
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Four titles published by @editions1018 in the 1990s
4 titles published by @editions1018 in the 1990s ✨🙌🏻✨ — “Reading Days”, which contains a large number of articles, literary studies and reading notes; — “Écrits...
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3 Proust exhibitions: the 2022 exhibition catalogues
📚✨🤓 — “Marcel Proust, a Parisian novel” @museecarnavalet from 16 December 2021 to 10 April 2022. — “Marcel Proust: On his mother’s side” at @mahjparis from 14 April...
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Paris, Pompeii, Sodom.
☄️🔥 How did the war find its way into “In Search of Lost Time”? 🤔📚 That’s what we’re taking a closer look at in Sunday’s story, which you can find above! ☝🏻🤓...
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Intelligence
🤓✨ “Every day, I place less value on intelligence.” — Marcel Proust, “Against Sainte-Beuve” 🤷🏻♂️ For Proust, a work of the intellect is inevitably limited, because...
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Some of my recent acquisitions: books by and about Proust.
Some of my recent purchases: books by and about Proust. 🤓📚❤️🩹 That’s not all! 🫣 In order: 1. Marcel Proust and Gaston Gallimard, “Correspondence”, Blanche series,...
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To put an end to this rather morbid centenary of Marcel Proust’s death…
🪦💀😵💫 “At Marcel Proust’s Grave”, an article by François Mauriac, published in “La Revue hebdomadaire” on 2 December 1922 (selected extracts). 🛌🗞️👨🏻🙌🏻✨ It’s this...
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“Marcel Proust: The Making of the Work” at @labnf!
🤓📚✨ I was lucky enough to visit the third and final major exhibition of the centenary, following “Marcel Proust: A Parisian Novel” 🥐☕️ at the @museecarnavalet and...
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100 years.
🥺 To mark the centenary of Marcel Proust’s death, check out the “100 Years” story in the featured stories 🗞️📺✨ above! ☝🏻 @lefigarofr @amisdeproust @labnf...
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An autumn walk in Illiers-Combray.
🤓🍁📚✨ A very first visit to the places that inspired the opening pages of “In Search of Lost Time” 📚✨: Combray and Tansonville, the Pré-Catelan 🍂, the Vivonne, Combray...
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