Moving letter from Marcel PROUST as a testimony of affection to A. Sorel.

Marcel Proust (1871.1922)

Autograph letter signed to Albert-Émile Sorel.

One page in 12° on mourning paper.

Slnd. [June 1906]

Unpublished letter to the Kolb correspondence.

« My thoughts will not leave you for a moment…”

Moving letter from Marcel Proust testifying, in a few lines, to his affectionate support for the son of his illustrious master in diplomatic history, Albert Sorel.

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“Dear friend, I do not want to disturb your anxieties. I just want to tell you that I associate myself with it with all my heart. My thoughts never leave you for a moment and always remain with you very affectionately. Marcel Proust. »

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Marcel Proust had followed the Diplomatic History course of Albert Sorel (1842-1906), in 1890, at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. He retained a deep admiration for the historian, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. The latter, for his part, had been particularly struck by his student in whom he had sensed exceptional gifts as a writer. He published, in 1904, in Le Temps, a very laudatory article 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 Unpublished letters to Albert Sorel .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. The new Revue des Deux Mondes . August 1974.