[PROUST] Faire-part de funérailles commémoratives

[PROUST] Faire-part de funérailles commémoratives

Funeral announcement for a memorial service
[Paris, 19 Nov. 1928], 1 p. oblong 12mo, full mourning
[Maison H. de Borniol]
Fine condition apart from a few tiny spots and very slightly rubbed corners

Very scarce funeral announcement for a memorial service on the sixth anniversary of Marcel Proust’s death

« Vous êtes prié d’assister à la Messe Anniversaire
qui sera célébrée le Lundi 19 Novembre 1928, à
10 heures, en l’Église Saint-Pierre de Chaillot, pour
le repos de l’âme de
Monsieur Marcel Proust
Homme de Lettres,
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur,
Priez pour Lui !
De la part du Docteur et Madame Robert
Proust, ses frère et belle-sœur ;
De Monsieur et Madame Gérard Mante,
ses neveu et nièce.
Et de toute la Famille
Paris, 2, Avenue Hoche (VIIIe) »

While he is still struggling with the leaves of Albertine disparue, Marcel Proust dies of a badly treated bronchitis in his apartment at 44, rue de l’Amiral Hamelin in Paris, on the evening of Saturday 18 November 1922, at half past five. His funeral takes place three days later, on 21 November, at the church of Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot, with the military honors due to a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. It is in this same church that the anniversary of his death (here the sixth) will be commemorated each year, with a Mass celebrated in his memory.

A fine Proustian relic, of the utmost rarity.