Marcel Proust is delighted about the upcoming marriage of his friend G. de Lauris.

Marcel Proust (1871.1922)

Autographed letter signed to Georges de Lauris.

Seven pages in-12°. No place of publication [Cabourg, around August 1910]

Kolb, Volume X, pages 164-165

"It would take a Mantegna to paint this wedding of the Knight of the Ideal and the Pink Princess.". »

Proust is delighted about his friend's upcoming marriage.

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"My dear Georges, It is with great emotion that I learn that your existence will be linked to that of this young woman whom I admired with rapture the first hour I saw her , for whom I have never ceased for a moment to have a deep and such sympathy that the name of Madame de Lauris remains so high and intact, if not in the memory of my eyes since I have never seen your dear mother, but so to speak in that of my thought, and which I would always have suffered a little to see borne by another, it is only with a feeling of extreme sweetness that I feel that it will be the name of this delightful being whom your mother would have loved.

And Georges, if for once I may share my true thoughts about you, I am delighted that this delightful, slightly bruised creature has met the man I consider the most intelligent, the most handsome, even the best, in the sense that by grafting his sensitivity onto his intellect, he has cultivated a gentle kindness that was perhaps not innate. All this is truly beautiful, and it would take a Mantegna to paint this union of the Knight of the Ideal and the Pink Princess .

My dear Georges, as is so typical of our miserable lives, I must immediately descend to the practical. I would like you to write to me about anything you would be pleased to receive, and I would like you to tell me something that might be somewhat connected to our lives, and if you will allow me to say so, something that, by its importance, places me somewhat among your close friends. Georges, don't be discreet; it's your fault, but in this circumstance, it would be a great failing of friendship.

I am also happy for Madame de Pierrebourg, who is a wonderful mother and for whom the man who marries her daughter will always be, to some extent, a beloved and feared rival. I am sure you will know how to give her the impression that her daughter will never cease to love her as much as she loves you, and that of her love, "each in their own way, both have it entirely." Farewell, my dear Georges, thank you for the dear confidence that keeps me so enthralled. My heartfelt and respectful regards to your father. Marcel.

I had pompously announced a half-line aside on Ginette [Lauris's novel] in a review of The Prince of Ties L'Intransigeant But it hasn't appeared yet, I don't know why .