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Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust

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Auction Date:2014 Sep 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:236 Commercial St., Suite 100, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
French writer (1871–1922) known for the sixteen-volume Remembrance of Things Past, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world literature. ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 7.25, no date but circa 1917. Letter to a princess, apparently Helene Soutzo. In part (translated): “I am very much afraid that I will not be able to come on Saturday. However, I will try. I am only writing you a word, as Antoinette is waiting for me. Tell Morand that I’ve asked you to send him my tender wishes.” Overall toning and paperclip marks and mounting remnants to top edge, otherwise fine condition. Proust regularly dined with Princess Soutzo and the author Paul Morand at the Ritz Hotel in Paris during the spring of 1917. He became rather infatuated with the princess, saying he was struck by her keen sense of politics, which he found simultaneously fascinating and horrifying. It was Morand, however, who conducted an extended affair with the princess; the two would marry in 1927 following her divorce from her husband.