A moving letter from Marcel Proust as a token of affection to A. Sorel.
« My thoughts never leave you for a moment and I remain with you always, with deep affection
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« My thoughts never leave you for a moment and I remain with you always, with deep affection
Sold
Marcel Proust (1871.1922)
Autographed letter signed to Albert-Émile Sorel.
One page in-12° on mourning paper.
No place of issue. [June 1906]
Unpublished letter to Kolb's correspondence.
« My thoughts are never far from you… »
A moving letter from Marcel Proust testifying, in a few lines, to his affectionate support for the son of his illustrious mentor in diplomatic history, Albert Sorel.
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"Dear friend, I do not wish to disturb your anxieties. I only want to tell you that I share them with all my heart. My thoughts never leave you for a moment and remain always with you most affectionately. Marcel Proust."
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Marcel Proust attended Albert Sorel's (1842-1906) course in Diplomatic History in 1890 at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po). He retained a profound admiration for the historian, a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences). Sorel, for his part, had been singularly struck by his student, in whom he sensed exceptional literary gifts. In 1904, he published a highly laudatory article in Le Temps devoted to Marcel Proust's study of the Amiens Bible , for which Proust remained eternally grateful.
Bibliography: Marcel Proust. Unpublished letters to Albert Sorel . Jean-Albert Sorel. La nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes . August 1974.