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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", Thursday evening [27 July 1922], to Jacques
POREL| 5 pages in-8, envelope (annotated by the addressee: "last letter - June 1922").
Beautiful letter to Réjane's son about the château de Guermantes.
[This is Proust's last letter to his friend Jacques Porel (1893-1932)| he will die on November 18].
He regrets not being able to accept his invitation for tomorrow [a dinner organized by Porel to bring together Proust and the new owners of Guermantes, Maurice Hottinger and his wife, née Blanche de Maupeou]: 'This regret is very keen, due to a rather sudden recrudescence of aff ection for you, brought back by interference of the heart, to earlier times. [...]. And then in my regret there is also the present owner of Guermantes. That is not a kind word, I would really have liked to know her. I find it so good, so intelligent of her, to have thought of the name of the castle she lived in. I think that in the history of Chatelaines this is a unique fact.
And of the name having gone to the author in spirit. The name of Guermantes (whose etymology I would so much like to know, tell him) has always brought me luck.
When Swann appeared, an "admirer" unknown to me, asked to know me in order to offer me a book bound with the Guermantes coat of arms. It was
Walter BERRY, who has become one of the two or three men I love the most.
Dear Jacques, I have had between an excruciating month following an accident and a rheumatic fever that was barely fi nished one evening of health!"... He salutes Porel's "charming wife", saying he is "very united with you in the painful and daily memory of your admirable mother". He adds, as a conclusion to a remark on his last article [Les Goncourt devant leurs cadets, in
Le Gaulois of 27 May 1922]: "Two or three months ago I put a clumsy sentence on Germinie [Germinie Lacerteux, a play created by Réjane, which made Proust weep as a child] in Le Gaulois, but you could not misunderstand the sentiment, nor could anyone else.
A typed note by Suzanne Vernes concerning the history of this letter is attached.
PROVENANCE Jacques Porel| former collection of Baron Hottinger.
Correspondence, t. XXI, p. 387.
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", Thursday evening [27 July 1922], to Jacques
POREL| 5 pages in-8, envelope (annotated by the addressee: "last letter - June 1922").
Beautiful letter to Réjane's son about the château de Guermantes.
[This is Proust's last letter to his friend Jacques Porel (1893-1932)| he will die on November 18].
He regrets not being able to accept his invitation for tomorrow [a dinner organized by Porel to bring together Proust and the new owners of Guermantes, Maurice Hottinger and his wife, née Blanche de Maupeou]: 'This regret is very keen, due to a rather sudden recrudescence of aff ection for you, brought back by interference of the heart, to earlier times. [...]. And then in my regret there is also the present owner of Guermantes. That is not a kind word, I would really have liked to know her. I find it so good, so intelligent of her, to have thought of the name of the castle she lived in. I think that in the history of Chatelaines this is a unique fact.
And of the name having gone to the author in spirit. The name of Guermantes (whose etymology I would so much like to know, tell him) has always brought me luck.
When Swann appeared, an "admirer" unknown to me, asked to know me in order to offer me a book bound with the Guermantes coat of arms. It was
Walter BERRY, who has become one of the two or three men I love the most.
Dear Jacques, I have had between an excruciating month following an accident and a rheumatic fever that was barely fi nished one evening of health!"... He salutes Porel's "charming wife", saying he is "very united with you in the painful and daily memory of your admirable mother". He adds, as a conclusion to a remark on his last article [Les Goncourt devant leurs cadets, in
Le Gaulois of 27 May 1922]: "Two or three months ago I put a clumsy sentence on Germinie [Germinie Lacerteux, a play created by Réjane, which made Proust weep as a child] in Le Gaulois, but you could not misunderstand the sentiment, nor could anyone else.
A typed note by Suzanne Vernes concerning the history of this letter is attached.
PROVENANCE Jacques Porel| former collection of Baron Hottinger.
Correspondence, t. XXI, p. 387.