Marcel PROUST is delighted with the future marriage of his friend G. de Lauris.

Marcel Proust (1871.1922)

Autograph letter signed to Georges de Lauris.

Seven pages in-12°. Slnd [Cabourg, around August 1910]

Kolb, volume X, pages 164-165

“It would take a Mantegna to paint these weddings of the Knight of the Ideal and the Pink Princess. »

Proust rejoices at his friend's future marriage.

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“My little Georges, It is a great emotion for me to 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 I have never ceased for a moment to have a deep sympathy and such finally as the name of Madame de Lauris which remains so high and intact except in the memory of my eyes since I have never seen your dear mother but if we can say in that of my thoughts and that I would always have suffered a little to see carried by another, it is only with a feeling of extreme sweetness that I feel that it will be the name of this delicious being that your mother would have liked it.

And then Georges if for once I can tell you my intimate thoughts about you, I am happy that this delicious and wrinkled creature met the man whom I consider to be the most intelligent, the most beautiful, the best even in the sense that by grafting his sensitivity back onto his mind he obtained the maturation of a gentle goodness which was perhaps not native. All this is very beautiful and it would take a Mantegna to paint these nuptials of the Knight of the Ideal and the Pink Princess .

My dear Georges, as it is our miserable life to immediately descend to the practical, I would like you to write to me what you would be happy for me to give you and I would like you to tell me something which could be a little associated with our life and if you allow me to say something which by its importance places me a little among your loved ones. Georges, don’t be discreet; it is your fault but in this circumstance it would be a great fault of friendship.

I am also happy for Madame de Pierrebourg who is a sublime mother and for whom the man who marries her daughter will always be a bit of a loved and feared rival. I am sure that you will be able to give him the impression that his daughter will not stop loving him so much in order to love you and that of her love “each in his own part, both have it entirely. » Farewell my little Georges, thank you for the dear confidence which keeps me passionate company. My emotional and respectful tributes to your father. Marcel.

I pompously announced to you a ½ line parenthesis on Ginette [the novel by Lauris] in a notice in L'Intransigeant on the Prince of Ties. But it hasn't been published yet, I don't know why. »