@proustagram turned two yesterday!
Translated from French.
As of yesterday, Proustagram is two years old! 🥳🍰
This is an opportunity for me to thank you for subscribing to this account, and for following it so faithfully! 🌟 Thank you for your insightful comments, for your enthusiasm, and for the passion you have for Proust and his work – without which you wouldn’t be here. 🤵🏻♂️📚🖋️
Thank you for all your messages of encouragement over the past two years. 🫣🥹
I’ve just been back to Illiers-Combray. 🏡 Almost two years after my first visit to the “temporary museum” on Rue de Chartres, which is currently being converted into a cultural venue by @mairiedillierscombray, I was lucky enough this time to visit “Aunt Léonie’s” house, which has been fully restored. ✨
There is so much to say about this place, which is now a ‘place of remembrance’ and a ‘house of illustrious figures’. ‘Aunt Léonie’s’ house is a bourgeois residence furnished and decorated in a distinctive style – that of Jules Amiot. Visitors will discover a somewhat old-fashioned Orientalist style 🌙, but also a deep connection to the countryside and the Catholic faith: dark wood panelling, a liqueur set, and rustic kitchenware. 🥓🥔
Right from the first room, the Marcel Proust Museum displays a timeline 🕰️ aimed at the general public and a display case of everyday objects, most of which come from the bequest of Céleste Albaret 👵🏻. After passing through the house, visitors will find a variety of works evoking the writer’s world: paintings by Paul-César Helleu (Amiens Cathedral), Jacques-Émile Blanche (portrait of Maurois), Robert de Montesquiou, and Thomas Alexander Harrison (seascape at Beg-Meil). ⛱️
I’ll talk about it again here, but in the meantime, @proustagram is two years old, so long live Marcel Proust! And thank you all once again! 🌺🌤️📖
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I’m also thinking of delving back into the works of Marcel Proust, whom I’ve somewhat forgotten since my youth! What a lovely opportunity. 😌🤗