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1958237196Paris : Grasset 1958. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Lloyd Austin University of Manchester. Physical description; 158 p. ; 18 cm. Subjects; Proust Marcel 1871-1922. - Biography. Proust Marcel 1871-1922 - Correspondence. Genre; Biography. Paris : Grasset paperback
19992092902137702544Iwanamishoten 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Iwanamishoten paperback
1919997W1Paris; Monaco; Manchester: Editions Garnier Freres; Quadrige/Puf; Editions de Fallois; Editions Sauret; Quarto Gallimard; Whitworth Art Gallery; Bernard Grasset; Societe des Amis de Marcel Proust; 1971; 2006; 2019; 1992; 1993; 2001; 1956; 2004; 2007; 2004. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5"; 7.5" by 5"; 8" by 5.5"; 8.5" by 6"; 9" by 6"; 9.5" by 6.5". None; Not Stated; Various. A charming collection of predominantly French language works reflecting on the writings - both fictional and personal. An extensive collection of titles dedicated to the monumental contributions made to French literature by Marcel Proust.Volume 1 features the bookplate of respected art and book collector Adrian Eeles to the front paste down.Volume 3 features an uncommon original partial dust wrap stating 'unpublished' in addition to 4 unlisted double-side colour plates. Collated from a copy held by the British Library complete.Includes first editions of volumes 3 and 4 volumes 4 6 and 7 being very scarce.Volume 5 features a monochrome frontispiece facsimile letter.Volume 7 is the only English language title in this collection and is a very scarce memento of an exhibition on Proust held by the Whitworth Art Gallery. Volume 7 features 2 unlisted double-sided monochrome plates. Collated from a copy held by the University of East Anglia Library complete.Volume 8 features 4 unlisted double-sided monochrome plates. Collated from a copy held by the British Library complete.Volume 9 features 6 double sided colour and monochrome plates and additional vignette illustrations. No other collation record available.Volume 10 features 6 unlisted double-sided monochrome plates. No other collation record available. Bound in original paper covers. Externally very smart. Mild shelf wear. Slight age toning to vol1 cover extremities. Bookplate of Adrian Eeles to vol1 front paste down. Removal of barcode to vol2. Slight spotting to vol4 covers. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Spotting to vol1 7 8 and vol4 text block edges. Very Good Indeed Editions Garnier Freres; Quadrige/Puf; Editions de Fallois; Editions Sauret; Quarto Gallimard; Whitworth Art Gallery; Bernard Gr paperback
19972-2070731316GALLIMARD 1997. Paperback. New. 400 pages. French language. 9.06x5.51x1.02 inches. GALLIMARD paperback
1995BN70548Suhrkamp Verlag 1995. 1995. Werke. Frankfurter Ausgabe: Werke II. Band 2: Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit 2. Im Schatten junger Mädchenblüte 2. Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit ; Bd. 2. Im Schatten junger Mädchenblüte <br/><br/> Suhrkamp Verlag unknown
1997BN69833Suhrkamp Verlag 1997. 1997. Werke. Frankfurter Ausgabe: Werke III. Band 3: Gegen Sainte-Beuve Werke III. Band 3: Gegen Sainte-Beuve <br/><br/> Suhrkamp Verlag unknown
2000095012Harpercollins Pub Ltd 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Near Fine. VG/VG 2000 1st ed Oxford hardback unclipped DJ. Light usage a little toning to page edges in places VG and unmarked otherwise. Other volumes in this series also available. Size: 6.5 x 1.75 x 9.75 inches. 528 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2kg. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Biography; Diaries letters and journals; ISBN: 0002570327. ISBN/EAN: 9780002570329. Dewey Code: 843.912. 84cxrarebooks is the trading name of Cambridge-based bookseller Marino Guida with 25 years experience in the trade. We guarantee the condition of all our books. Further images or a short video presentation of any book can be arranged on request. We send tax-free and tariff-free to EU US/Canada and Australia/NZ with insurance included for peace of mind. Inventory No: 095012. 9780002570329 Harpercollins Pub Ltd hardcover
2000096266Harpercollins Pub Ltd 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Near Fine. VG/VG 2000 1st ed Oxford hardback unclipped DJ with US distribution sticker to inner front flap of DJ. Light usage a little toning to page edges in places jacket in protective sleeve VG and unmarked otherwise. Other volumes in this series also available. Size: 6.5 x 1.75 x 9.75 inches. 528 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2kg. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Biography; Diaries letters and journals; ISBN: 0002570327. ISBN/EAN: 9780002570329. Dewey Code: 843.912. 84cxrarebooks is the trading name of Cambridge-based bookseller Marino Guida with 25 years experience in the trade. We guarantee the condition of all our books. Further images or a short video presentation of any book can be arranged on request. We send tax-free and tariff-free to EU US/Canada and Australia/NZ with insurance included for peace of mind. Inventory No: 096266. 9780002570329 Harpercollins Pub Ltd hardcover
19121408983Valencia: Pubul y Morales 1912. First Spanish Edition. Hardcover. Octavo four volumes. In Good plus condition. Quarter-bound in red leather with red paper boards. Paneled spines with gilt ornamentation and titling. Boards have chipping to extremities stains to some surfaces and bumping to corners. Volume 3 has denting to fore edges. Textblocks have foxing light age toning and soiling throughout. Shelved in Room A. 1408983. Special Collections. Pubul y Morales hardcover
1956219385New York: Simon and Schuster January 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. Used - Good/Poor. Dust jacket has serious shelf wear including a large tear but was enclosed in mylar to prevent further damage. Stated first printing of this edition. New York: Simon and Schuster hardcover
190484876s. l. 1904. Fine. Because I also want success I am extremely material in my wishes for those I love and I wish them every pleasure from the highest to the crudest. s. l. mardi 25 octobre 1904 12.60 x 20.40 cm 12 pages sur 3 bifeuillets Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust addressed to René Peter. Twelve pages written in black ink on three bifolia framed in black. Tears at the ends along the folds of the bifolia not affecting the text. Published in Kolb IV n°168. A very long letter from Proust full of innuendo to the playwright René Peter. Praising Peter's success Proust confesses to his own vanity as a writer and his literary ambitions. He subtly lets his jealousy for Peter's mistress shine through and declares his absolute devotion to Reynaldo Hahn. This is one of the first letters he sends to his childhood friend after recently reconnecting with him. Proust eternally plagued by ailments remains a recluse and apologizes for missing the rehearsal of Peter's new play Le Chiffon. Peter's three-act comedy with music by Reynaldo Hahn premiered at the Athénée the following month and was a huge success with around sixty performances before the end of the year. The young Proust relies on the glowing opinion of Hahn who had attended the rehearsals and the missive becomes a love letter for the composer and his impeccable judgement: ""Reynaldo told me that your play was delightful and ravishing which is not quite the same thing that he laughed and cried in it as he never laughs or cries in the theater and that the language was exquisite. Of that I was certain. But knowing nothing about you I couldn't know if you had dramatic genius. I am certain of it now because even if I do not know a judge as severe as ridiculously severe as Reynaldo I also do not know one who has more taste giving his enthusiasm very great value in my eyes. In a characteristic tangle of confession and denial Proust barely hides his ambitions and his quest for recognition. He hopes and prays for the same laurels he places on Peter's head: your poor and charming mother who like all those who love and who have lived life bruising all our tenderness has suffered so much is witnessing this great happiness these first rays of glory on your charming forehead which Vauvenargues says softer as the rising sun. I only speak of them in quotations having never known them myself! He will even end up instilling his own literary vocation into the fictional life of the narrator of In Search of Lost Time although the narrator's journey as a man of letters is more marked by disappointments than rays of glory so long awaited by Proust himself. However it culminates in Time Regained with an epiphany: the narrator now knows what to write and above all how to write it. The letter marks the beginnings of the Proust-Peter-Hahn trio whose complicity was such that they formed a special vocabulary of which only they had the secret. The river of words in this letter perfectly illustrates the undeniable link between desire and intellectual admiration: Because I also want success I am extremely material in my wishes for those I love and I wish them every pleasure from the highest to the crudest. Despite these displays of generosity the writer cannot however mask a certain jealousy towards Robert Danceny the fictional co-author of Le Chiffon who was none other than Peter's mistress Mme Dansaërt. Proust elegantly but explicitly refers to her: It makes me happy to think that the charming woman who I am assured is hiding under the male name of your collaborator shares half of your work. I am not talking about your success because whether she worked with you or not she would always have shared your success with her heart having I believe a deep friendship for you. Typical of a Proust transposing his desires through fiction the writer will form various dramatic and morbid scenarios between Peter and this young woman in the following years: I unknown
1927997B8Paris: Éditions Lemarget; Éditions du Sagittaire; Gallimard; Librarie Plon; Amiot Dumont; J. B. Janin; Corrêa Éditions; Mercvre de France; Librarie de Paris; Hachette; Ernest Flammarion 1927-2013. Paperback. Good. 8.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. Extensive thirty-volume set of the correspondence and works of influential French writer Marcel Proust. Extensive collection of thirty French-language works from or about Marcel Proust including numerous editions of his letters and correspondence seventeen of which are first editions.Collection comprised of:1927 Chroniques;1928 De Loti à Proust by Louis de Robert - first edition; 1929 Du Côté de Marcel Proust by Benjamin Crémieux - first edition;1930 Marcel Proust: Sa Révélation Psychologique by Arnaud Dandieu - first edition;1930 Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 1 - first edition;1931 Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 2 - first edition;1932 Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 3 - first edition;1933 Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 4 - first edition;1933 Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 4 - first edition;1945 Écrivains Intelligents du XXe Siècle by Edmond Buchet - first edition;1946 Marcel Proust: son Vie son Oeuvre by Léon Pierre-Quint;1946 Lettres a Madame C. - first edition;1948 A un Ami;1949 À la Recherche de Marcel Proust by André Maurois - first edition;1949 À la Recherche du Temps Perdu: Volume XI: La Prisonnière;1953 Correspondance avec sa Mère by Philip Kobb - first edition;1954 Contre Sainte-Beuve;1956 Lettres à Reynaldo Hahn - first edition;1958 Pastiches et Mélanges;1962 Les Plaisirs et les Jours;1965 À la Recherche de Marcel Proust by André Maurois;1966 Lettres Retrouvées by Philip Kobb - first edition;1966 L'usage de la Lecture: Lecture de proust by Gaëtan Picon;1969 Citations Reférences et Allusions de Marcel Proust by Jacques Nathan;1969 Comment débuta Marcel Proust;1982 Matinée chez la Princesse de Guermantes - first edition;1989 Correspondance - first edition;1991 Mon Cher Petit;1994 Correspondance;2013 Lettres à sa Voisine - first edition.All editions are publisher's original paperbacks.In the original French.Correspondance avec sa Mère contains a frontispiece and two further plates. Lettres a Madame C. contains three plates one of which is a facsimile lettter. Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 2 contains a frontispiece and two further plates. Mon Cher Petit and Matinée chez la Princesse de Guermantes both contain one plate. Both editions of Correspondance contain several facsimile letters.Many volumes contain the bookplate of eminent collector and art dealer Adrian Eeles. Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 3 also features the bookplate of Harold James Lean Wright similar collector and art historian.The significant French novelist critic and essayist is best remembered for À la recherche du temps perdu which greatly influenced the literary Modernist movement for its stream-of-consciousness style and La Recherche in which Proust explores his significant concept of involuntary memory. All editions are publisher's original paperbacks. Many volumes contain the bookplate of Adrian Eeles to the front paste down or endpapers. Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 3 also features the bookplate of Harold J. L. Wright to the front paste down. A few volumes include contemporary inscriptions to the front free endpapers. Ex-library insert to front free endpaper of Comment débuta Marcel Proust. Externally generally smart. Moderate bumping and rubbing across almost all texts the newer 1990s and 2013 versions being much fresher and brighter. Front covers of Du Côté de Marcel Proust and A un Ami are completely loose. Lettres a Madame C. lacking rear cover. One copy of Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 4 suffers from a significant chip to the bottom half of the front cover which extends to the endpapers. Significant loss of cloth to spine of De Loti à Proust and Du Côté de Marcel Proust with remnants peeling. Spotting and discolouration throughout. Internally front hinge to most volumes reasonably weak leading to the odd delicate page more common to the front of the works. Otherwise generally firmly bound. Some small tears to page edges. A number of pages unopened to Du Côté de Marcel Proust Citations Reférences et Allusions de Marcel Proust and Correspondance Générale de Marcel Proust: Volume 2. Light spotting and discolouration throughout newer editions again being noticably cleaner. Good Éditions Lemarget; Éditions du Sagittaire; Gallimard; Librarie Plon; Amiot Dumont; J. B. Janin; Corrêa Éditions; Mercvre de paperback
1918718<p>Brochure well preserved with minor wear and tear. Paris Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française 30 novembre 1918 June 1919. 17 x 21 cm. 443 p. Includes the first and second parts in one volume. Gaston Gallimard since 1916 officially becomes Proust's new editor. The first edition is from the same year 1918.</p> NRF Gallimard paperback
191889560Paris: Nrf 1918. Fine. Nrf Paris 1918 12.8 x 19.5 cm Relié First edition on ordinary paper without edition statement bearing the correct colophon dated 30 November 1918. The 128 deluxe paper copies would only be issued six months later during the summer of 1919. Light spotting to the margins of the endleaves small l and a faint dampstain to the title page and following leaves a bluish stain to the margins of pp. 339-340 inherent to the quality of the paper. Bound in contemporary half forest-green morocco over corners spine with five raised bands ruled in black gilt date at foot cats-eye patterned paper boards comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers and spine preserved top edge gilt binding signed by Huser. A handsome copy in a well-executed binding. Nrf hardcover
1988Q-2070380513French and European Publications Inc 1988-12-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! French and European Publications Inc paperback
1954575<p>All 15 volumes included in this set. Books are all in good condition with some fading. No rips or tears.</p> Gallimard paperback
1937500179889Gallimard 1937. 1937. Etat correct Gallimard unknown
2000321112Belgium: Delcourt 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in boards. Published in French.; 72 pages. Delcourt hardcover
2000321111Belgium: Delcourt 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in boards. Publshed in French.; 47 pages. Delcourt hardcover
1987DADAX2221047427BOUQUINS 1987-12-31. mass_market. New. 5.24x1.42x7.91. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. BOUQUINS unknown
191389908Paris: Grasset first volumeGallimard other volumes 1913. Fine. Grasset first volume Gallimard other volumes Paris 1913-1927 12 x 19 cm 13 volumes brochés First edition for each volume. Fine copy of Du côté de chez Swann in first edition second printing with all identifying points front cover dated 1913 table of contents present no publisher's catalogue at end; copy in first edition bearing the mention ""quatrième édition"" for À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs with the correct colophon dated November 30 1918; although bearing the same colophon dated November 30 1918 the 128 reimposed copies were not actually printed until a year later together with the large paper copies of the Swann reissue; for the following 11 volumes numbered copies on pur fil wove paper the only large paper copies apart from the reimposed ones. The complete first edition of À la recherche du temps perdu comprises the first two volumes on ordinary paper with the particularities mentioned above followed by deluxe copies for the subsequent volumes. These deluxe copies on pur fil are in the same format as the first two volumes. Restorations with losses filled on the spine and boards of the first and second volumes spine of third volume browned small tears or slight losses of no consequence at foot of certain spines rear board of fifth volume partially sunned some foxing on fore-edge of sixth volume manuscript ex-libris inscriptions in upper right corners of front cover and title page of first volume. This complete set of La Recherche comprises the following titles: Du côté de chez Swann À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs Le Côté de Guermantes 2 volumes Sodome et Gomorrhe 3 volumes La Prisonnière 2 volumes Albertine disparue 2 volumes and Le Temps retrouvé 2 volumes. Fine complete set all volumes in first edition as published. Grasset (first volume)Gallimard (other volumes) hardcover
19892-2070111644Schoenhofs Foreign Books 1989. Leather Bound. New. box edition. 504 pages. French language. 7.00x4.50x1.75 inches. Schoenhofs Foreign Books hardcover
1907Proust15<p><strong>PROUST Marcel 1971-1922</strong></p><p>Autograph letter signed " Marcel " to Reynaldo Hahn<br />N.p.n.d " Monday " 7th January 1907 8 p. in-8° in black in on mourning paper two bi-folios watermark " L. T. & C° "<br />Small annotation in pencil in the upper margin of the first page period fold marks<br />Slight discharges of ink on the first bi-folio testifying to a folding by Proust when the ink was not yet dry.</p><p><strong>A precious letter to Reynaldo Hahn his "Bunchnibuls" about his relationship with Robert de Montesquiou and the latter's late lover Gabriel de Yturri the one who inspired Proust for the character of Jupien in <em>The Search</em></strong></p><p><em>" Mon petit Reynaldo</em><br /><em>Je suis triste de n'être pas en état de vous dire plutôt ce que je vous écris. <strong>Si vous écrivez à Montesquiou dites-lui que la vérité est hors de son dilemme en pleine invraisemblance pour qui ne sait pas ma vie</strong>. La vérité c'est qu'arrivé à Versailles le 6 Août je n'ai pas pendant ces cinq mois été une seule fois capable de sortir. <strong>Je n'ai pas été une seule fois au Château pas une seule fois à Trianon</strong> mais du reste vous savez bien tout cela pas une seule fois au cimetière des Gonards. Si je n'avais eu qu'un seul jour de bon je serais allé plutôt qu'au Château et à Trianon aux Gonards <strong>surtout M. de Montesquiou n'étant pas à Versailles ne pouvant pas y aller j'aurais eu un sentiment très doux en me disant que je le remplaçais</strong></em> <strong><em>que je venais de sa part auprès du pauvre Yturri comme lui si souvent vint de la part de M. de Montesquiou auprès de moi</em></strong><em>. Et puis je savais par vous par d'autres que c'était une tombe unique d'émotion et de beauté2. Et comme je ne pense plus guères qu'aux tombeaux j'aurais bien voulu voir ce que Montesquiou avait fait là et comment son goût avait réussi à donner plus de noblesse encore à sa douleur. <strong>Quand il sera revenu à Paris ou à Versailles je me soignerai pour tâcher de le voir un soir mais outre que c'est impossible pour tout le monde avec lui la difficulté avec lui</strong>3 <strong>grandit encore car c'est la personne du monde avec qui je me gêne le plus dans le mauvais sens du mot</strong>. Et même s'il se prête pour une fois à mes heures la possibilité d'une crise intempestive m'empêchera d'oser lui donner un rendez-vous que j'aimerais mieux mourir que rompre tandis que d'autres comprendraient. <strong>Vous pouvez lui dire que j'ai eu une grande joie à recevoir les Hortensias bleus que je n'avais jamais tant aimés</strong>4. Les pièces du début m'ont paru plus exquises qu'autrefois. Quant à l'Ancilla dont je vous ai appliqué ce fragment dernièrement5 c'est une chose admirable un magnifique pendant de La servante au grand cœur6. Il me semble mais je n'en suis pas sûr que la pièce à Yturri a été retouchée et peut'être pas améliorée. Elle reste peut'être ce qu'il a jamais écrit de mieux mais je ne me rappelle pas que la couronne fût verte la première fois et je ne sais pas si c'est mieux ainsi7. <strong>Inutile de lui dire cela d'abord parce qu'il s'en ficherait complètement</strong> ensuite parce que c'est un doute très vague et que je ne suis pas du tout sûr d'avoir raison.</em><br /><em>Avez-vous été interrogé par les Lettres au sujet de Shakespeare Tolstoï8. Je suis trop souffrant pour répondre je ne peux pas vous dire ce que rien qu'une lettre comme celle-ci m'épuise. Plusieurs personnes notamment Me G. de Caillavet m'ont écrit que votre Noël était adorable9. <strong>J'aurais bien voulu l'entendre Bunchnibuls et suis triste de n'avoir pas pu</strong>. Dites à M. de Montesquiou que je n'ai même pas pu aller à l'enterrement de mon pauvre oncle10.</em><br /><em>Tendrement à vous</em><br /><em>Marcel.</em><br /><em>Vous pouvez dire à M. de Montesquiou que je n'ai pas été une seule fois assez bien pour voir Miss Deacon qui habitait le même hôtel11.</em><br /><em>Dites à Montesquiou que d'ailleurs cela n'intéressera pas que je commence à aimer beaucoup les objets12. "</em></p><p>1- Letter dated "Monday"; must date either from Monday 31 December 1906 or from Monday 7 January 1907: allusion to the news that Proust had of a performance of the recipient's Christmas see infra note n°9</p><p>2- In a letter to Montesquiou dated November 18 1905 Proust apologized for not having been able to attend the inauguration of the monument in honor of Gabriel de Yturri: " I would have liked my strength to allow me to unite with the little group… ". Robert de Montesquiou died on 11 December 1921 and was buried in the same vault as his companion.</p><p>3- By slip Proust repeats "with him"</p><p>4- <em>Les Hortensias bleus</em>. Definitive edition with portrait of the author after a painting by Laszlo. Paris 1906. It is the first volume of the poet's definitive work published in December 1906 by Georges Richard 7 rue Cadet. The first edition of the work had appeared in 1896.</p><p>5- In a letter to the same recipient dated December 13 1906 Proust quoted some verses from Montesquiou that he had slightly modified.</p><p>6- Baudelaire<em> Les Fleurs du Mal</em> <em>Tableaux parisiens</em> vol. 1 ed. Claude Pichois Pléiade p. 100:<br /><em>La servante au grand cœur dont vous étiez jalouse </em><br /><em>Et qui dort son sommeil sous une humble pelouse</em><br /><em>Nous devrions pourtant lui porter quelques fleurs.</em> …</p><p>7- An allusion to the sonnet In Memoriam which Montesquiou placed after the preface to the collection in question a piece entitled In Memory of Gabriel de Yturri. It begins:<br /><em>Mes sentiments pour Vous sont fiers d'être éternels; </em><br /><em>Ils ont assez duré pour avoir fait leur preuve </em><br /><em>Sérieux dans la joie et sereins sous l'épreuve</em><br /><em>Et sans jamais mentir aux pactes fraternels.</em><br /><em>Chacun de nous eut droit à sa verte couronne: </em><br /><em>La mienne je l'espère et l'attends sans émoi; </em><br /><em>La vôtre si d'avance ici je vous la donne </em><br /><em>Recevez-la sans trouble en la tenant de moi.</em></p><p>8- The magazine <em>Les Lettres</em> had asked some French writers and artists for their opinion on this judgment of Tolstoy reported by Georges Bourdon in his book <em>Listening to Tolstoy</em> 1904</p><p>9- Allusion to the performance given at the home of Mrs. Madeleine Lemaire on New Year's Eve. It is apparently the <em>Pastorale de Noël</em> a mystery in one act by Arnous Grevan adapted by Leonel de La Tourasse and Taurines with piano accompaniment by Reynaldo Hahn.</p><p>10- This is Georges Denis Weil brother of Jeanne Weil-Proust. The funeral took place on August 27 1906. It was Robert Proust Marcel's brother who went there to lead the mourning.</p><p>11- Gladys-Mary Deacon daughter of Edward Parker Deacon and Florence Baldwin</p><p>12- A play on words it seems alluding to both trinkets and Montesquiou's poem entitled <em>Objets</em>. Cf. <em>Les Hortensias bleus</em> LXXVI of the 1896 edition; LXXII of the definitive edition of 1906.</p><p>We know Hahn's letter to Montesquiou now in the Montesquiou collection at the BnF sent the next day or the day after in which he forwards Proust's request:<br />"Dear Sir I have communicated your letter to Marcel. I am sending you his reply this letter. I haven't seen him for several days. It is alas all too true that not once did he go out at Versailles … "</p><p>It was at Madeleine Lemaire's house on April 13 1893 that Marcel Proust met Robert de Montesquiou. The latter portrayed as the Baron de Charlus in <em>The Search</em> a character of irascible character and sharp verve made a completely different impression on Proust during this first meeting. A dandy with a pure profile a fascinating look… Proust fell under the admiration of Montesquiou and a current of sympathy was established between them. . This admiration was followed by a friendship that lasted until the last days of the dandy-poet in 1921.<br />Montesquiou is known to have had only one affair: that with his much-loved and mourned secretary Gabriel de Yturri. He died of diabetes on July 6 1905.</p><p>This is a remarkable testimony of intersecting relationships each of the people mentioned here inspiring Proust for major figures in <em>The Search</em>.</p><p><u>Provenance:</u><br /><em>Autographes littéraires et historiques Lettres de Marcel Proust</em> Marie Nordlinger Drouot 15th – 17th December 1958 lot 188.<br />After Reynaldo Hahn his cousin Marie Nordlinger who had helped Marcel Proust in his translation of Ruskin inherited it.</p><p><u>Bibliographie :</u><br /><em>Correspondance</em> t. VII Kolb Plon n°5<br /><em>Lettres à Reynaldo Hahn</em> éd. Philip Kolb Gallimard LXXVIII</p><p><u>Source :</u><br /><em>Marcel Proust I</em> – Biographie Jean-Yves Tadié Folio pp. 283-295</p>
1908Proust26<p><strong>PROUST Marcel 1871-1922</strong></p><p>Autograph pastiche-poem signed " Marcel Proust " to the marquis Philibert de Clermont-Tonnerre<br />N.p.n.d c. summer 1908 2 p. in-8° watermarked mourning paper<br />Watermark : " Original / Turkey Mill / Kent "<br />Central fold mark</p><p><strong>A rare and admirable poem-pastiche by Proust in the manner of Robert de Montesquiou whose style he somewhat mocks</strong></p><p><em>" "Prière du Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre"</em>¹<br /><em>Imité de Robert de Montesquiou </em></p><p><em>Je greffe les rosiers dont sont fleuris les marbres</em><br /><em>Ceux du Paros "mousseux" et du Carrare "thé" </em><br /><em>Et de ces rosoyants et ces blondissants arbres</em><br /><em>Je sais tirer des chants inconnus d'Hardy-Thé !</em>²</p><p><em>Mon pinceau fait courir au rinceau des abaques</em><br /><em>Cet or qui fait marcher à ce qu'on dit Cloton !</em>³<br /><em>Trianon</em>â´<em> Vézelay ne sont que des baraques </em><br /><em>Quand l'esprit les compare au Palais Lauriston !</em>âµ</p><p><em>Seigneur si vous daignez m'admettre dans les Salles</em><br /><em>Où le Juste rompra le Pain Essentiel </em><br /><em>Que de marbre aussi pur étincellent vos stalles ! </em><br /><em>De Glisolles et d'Ancy</em>â¶<em> que soit digne le Ciel ! </em></p><p><em>pour copie conforme</em>â·<br /><em>Marcel Proust "</em></p><p>Through this pastiche Proust takes up the floral motif abundantly used by Robert de Montesquiou 1855-1921 in his works and poems. When the latter published his first collection <em>Les Chauves-souris</em> in 1893 Proust 22 years old at the time wrote to him on 29 April 1893 that "Never have the vain flowers of gardens smelled so good" <em>Corr</em>. t. I p. 206. The two men met for the first time a few days earlier at Madeleine Lemaire's house on April 13 1893. Dandy with a pure profile a fascinating look… Proust fell under the admiration of Montesquiou the future model of Charlus. This was followed by an abundant often flattering correspondence. If the young Proust never ceased to praise Montesquiou's taste for the erudite display of names cultural references and the rare word we observe through the present poem-pastiche a touch of mockery with regard to the style of the dandy-poet. The two would however maintain a friendship that would last until Montesquiou's last days in 1921.<br />At the time when Proust was thinking of resuming his pastiche of Saint-Simon "Fête chez Montesquiou" <em>Textes retrouvés</em> ed. P. Kolb Gallimard p. 191-195 he wrote to Montesquiou on February 16 1909 without forgetting the usual precautions: "Basically the pastiche that would amuse me the most to make when I can write a little without prejudice to more serious studies is a pastiche of you! But in the first place it would perhaps annoy you and I don't want anything of me to ever make you angry …!" <em>Corr.</em> t. IX p. 34.<br />The epistle addressed to the Marquis Philibert de Clermont-Tonnerre 1871-1940 was published by his wife Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre née de Gramont in 1955 in the <em>Bulletin Marcel Proust</em>. The latter who first met the writer in 1903 had previously published a study of Robert de Montesquiou and Marcel Proust Flammarion 1925.</p><p>1 The title recalls Robert de Montesquiou's <em>Prières de tous</em> 1902 illustrated by Madeleine Lemaire.<br />2 Lucien Hardy-Thé composer and singer socialite<br />3 Clotilde Legrand 1857-1944 born de Fournès nicknamed "Cloton".<br />4 In 1908 Montesquiou acquired the Palais Rose du Vésinet a reduced copy of the Grand Trianon in Versailles.<br />5 The Clermont-Tonnerres lived in their hotel at 74 rue de Lauriston in Paris.<br />6 Duke Aimé Gaspard Marie de Clermont-Tonnerre 1779-1865 owned a castle built in the eighteenth century at Glisolles in the Eure and another built in the sixteenth century at Ancy-le-Franc in the Yonne.<br />7 Proust indicates "pour copie conforme" a practice he used for his pastiches and common at the time.</p><p><u>Provenance:</u><br />Philibert de Clermont-Tonnerre destinataire<br />Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre née de Gramont par descendance</p><p><u>Bibliography:</u><br /><em>BSAMPAC</em> n°5 1955 p. 5 publié par Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre<br /><em>Correspondance</em> t. VIII Kolb Plon p. 207 n°111<br /><em>Essais</em> éd. Antoine Compagnon 2022 Pléiade p. 630</p><p><u>Source:</u><br /><em>Marcel Proust I</em> – Biographie Jean-Yves Tadié Folio pp. 283-295<br /><em>Essais</em> éd. Antoine Compagnon 2022 Pléiade p. 1605-1606</p>
19762090202120700063Tokyo Photographic Academy Publishing Office 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 211 pages Size: 310x260 Tokyo Photographic Academy Publishing Office paperback
