Marcel Proust, sad and ill, joined his parents in Evian. 1903.
"If you write to me, 'Splendid Hotel Evian les Bains,' that you love me a little, you will comfort your sad and sick friend Marcel Proust."
8.500€
"If you write to me, 'Splendid Hotel Evian les Bains,' that you love me a little, you will comfort your sad and sick friend Marcel Proust."
8.500€
Marcel Proust (1871.1922)
Autographed postcard signed to Georges de Lauris.
One page in-12°, written on a view of the Parc des Chaumes in Avallon.
Address, stamp and postmarks. No date [September 1903]
Unpublished document in the Kolb correspondence.
"You will comfort your sad and sick friend."
A touching card to her young friend, begging him for her love.
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"Dear friend, if you write to me at the Splendid Hotel Evian les Bains that you love me a little, you will comfort your sad and ill friend Marcel Proust."
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On a journey to join his parents in Evian, Proust made a stop to discover Avallon, at dawn in September 1903, then the medieval architecture of Vézelay which Emile Mâle had recommended to him.
In Evian, he met up with, in addition to his parents, Louis d'Albufera and Louisa Mornand with whom he ventured as far as Chamonix and the Mer de Glace.
The relative calm of Evian allowed him to write a study on Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
A few weeks later, on November 26, 1903, his father, Adrien Proust, died of a stroke.