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Robert de

Flers


Marcel

Proust


Photographie originale dédicacée à Marcel Proust

Photography,135 x 210 mm

6 000 €

1 in stock

20th Century Literature Literature Photography Remarkable origins Photography Autograph

Description

Large original photograph showing Robert de Flers dressed as a Masquerade.

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED :

"To Marcel Proust, very affectionately. R. de Flers".

Robert de Flers was Proust's classmate at the French School. The two friends had a youthful affair, a year before Proust met Reynaldo Hahn, and Robert de Flers went on to marry Victorien Sardou's daughter, Geneviève, and became one of the most prominent playwrights.

This photograph, from Marcel Proust's family album, was exhibited twice at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (L’Écriture et les Arts, n° 183).

UNIQUE DOCUMENT FROM THE PROUST ARCHIVES.

135 x 210 mm,

135 x 210 mm albumen print against 150 x 245 mm cardboard.

Bio

Flers, Robert de

Robert de Flers

(born in Pont-l'Évêque on 25 November 1872 and died in Vittel on 30 July 1927)

Marquis de La Motte-Ango, Count of Flers, playwright member of the French Academy.

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Proust, Marcel

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust, born in Paris on July 10, 1871 and died in Paris on November 18, 1922.

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