{"id":7622,"date":"2020-07-01T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7622"},"modified":"2020-08-23T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:01:09","slug":"lettre-autographe-signee-adressee-au-jeune-marcel-proust","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/shop\/desjardins_paul,proust-marcel\/lettres\/lettre-autographe-signee-adressee-au-jeune-marcel-proust\/","title":{"rendered":"Autograph letter signed and addressed to the young Marcel Proust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MARCEL PROUST<\/strong> written between 1893 and 1899.<br \/>\n4 pages in-12 (175 x 110 mm), black ink.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENTITLED BY DESJARDINS: \"<em>CATALOGUE OF AN IDEAL SMALL LIBRARY<\/em>\"<\/strong><br \/>\nA philosopher and moralist, Paul Desjardins (1859-1940) was the brother of Abel Desjardins, one of Marcel Proust's classmates at the Lyc\u00e9e Condorcet, where he taught from 1906. Founder of the<em>Union for Moral Action<\/em>to which Proust subscribed, and from 1893 he read extracts from <em>Ruskin<\/em>. Dujardin addressed the young Proust a \"<em>catalogue of an ideal small library<\/em>\"He recommended reading, in chronological order, Plato, Xenophon, Le Banquet (the title of the magazine Proust founded at the Lyc\u00e9e Condorcet and which appeared from March 1892 to March 1893), Montaigne, Shakespeare, Milton, Comus and Lycidas, Pascal, Racine, Joubert, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Emerson, Goethe, Renan, Fromentin, etc., as well as a number of other works.<br \/>\nThe catalogue ends as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"etc., etc. (not too much). And now let sincerity never desert you!<br \/>\nPaul Desjardins\"<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul Desjardins appears in the <em>Search<\/em>when Legrandin recommended it to Combray: <em>Do you know, Mr. Reader,\" he asked me, \"this verse by Paul Desjardins: Les bois sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 noirs, le ciel est encor bleu. Isn't that the finest notation of this hour? Perhaps you have never read Paul Desjardins. Read him, my child; today, I'm told, he's turned into a preaching brother, but for a long time he was a limpid watercolourist...\"<\/em> (Pl\u00e9iade, I, p. 118-119).<\/p>\n<p><strong>RARE DOCUMENT.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This letter was presented in London at the exhibition : <em>Marcel Proust and His Time<\/em> at the Wildenstein Gallery in 1955 (n<em>\u00b0<\/em>251).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Provenance<\/span>Marie-Claude Mante Proust, great-niece of Marcel Proust.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">References<\/span> : <em>Proust dictionary<\/em>, p. 297. -- G.D. 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