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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", [2 or 3 May 1894], to Robert de MONTESQUIOU| 2 1/2 pages in-8 (slightly split at the central fold).
He thanks him "very much for the invitation, prestigious and so simple" that he received for the 24th. "When the least bourgeois (taken here in opposition to artist) makes a harlequin, an embracing couple, a mask, or a doggy style wince at an invitation to a sordid ball, I like to look at, the promise of so many rare joys, this so simple assurance of such extraordinary events. It is the correct and glorious counterpart of the black tie on the day of the conference [on Marceline Desbordes-Valmore]. It is the disappointment of the fools, the confusion of the wicked and the profound joy of the delicate who love you...
Correspondence, t. I, p. 289.
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", [2 or 3 May 1894], to Robert de MONTESQUIOU| 2 1/2 pages in-8 (slightly split at the central fold).
He thanks him "very much for the invitation, prestigious and so simple" that he received for the 24th. "When the least bourgeois (taken here in opposition to artist) makes a harlequin, an embracing couple, a mask, or a doggy style wince at an invitation to a sordid ball, I like to look at, the promise of so many rare joys, this so simple assurance of such extraordinary events. It is the correct and glorious counterpart of the black tie on the day of the conference [on Marceline Desbordes-Valmore]. It is the disappointment of the fools, the confusion of the wicked and the profound joy of the delicate who love you...
Correspondence, t. I, p. 289.