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PROUST Marcel (1871 - 1922) L.A.S. « Marcel Proust », à une dame| 2 pages

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PROUST Marcel (1871 - 1922) L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", to a lady| 2 pages in-8 (traces of collage on back of 2nd leaf).
Lesson in style.
He hastily replies: "The sentence is what is even rather nice about him, his rather nice side etc., a way of conceiving things in which one counts oneself for nothing etc.". So the 2 errors were the omission of the y (ce qu'il y a même) and the omission of on in front of quoi où would not be very euphonious. Dans laquelle is better. The preceding and is unnecessary (a manner etc. in which one counts oneself)".