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Illiers-Combray (France), Jul 9 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: María Díaz Valderrama / Yoan Valat) Aunt Léonie's house is one of the pilgrimage sites for admirers of Marcel Proust, whose birth 150 years are celebrated this Saturday, and a treasure in the French town of Illiers-Combray, renamed 50 years ago in honor of the writer.FOOTAGE OF THE HOUSE IN ILLIERS-COMBRAY, FRANCESOUNDBITES BY ANNE IMBERT, CURATORTRANSLATION"After the death of Robert Proust the fate of the Proust archives was complicated. They went through Bernard de Fallois who preserved them and worked on them to publish Jean Santouil and others. The Fallois archives went to the National Library where the researchers they have access and that is how last year they published excerpts from The Pleasures and Days and this year Les 75 feuillets ”.“Proust came a few times but it deeply influenced his sensitivity to the point that Combray's name is very present in" In Search of Lost Time. " It is the only place where we can precisely evoke the life of Proust and frequent a place where he came in life and since the 70s it is open to the public, it is a museum in France and the Society of Friends of Proust and the department own the house and they acquire collections that are directly related to the life and work of Proust. We welcome a large audience, we hold conferences… there is a literary life around this house ”.
Brussels, May 6 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Olivier Hoslet) The House of European History opens from this weekend a sixth floor dedicated to current affairs in Europe.FOOTAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF EUROPEAN HISTORYSOUNDBITES FROM ANDREA MORK, DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM TRANSLATION: 1. "Following this tour through 200 years of European history, this last floor is dedicated to the challenges and conflicts that we face on a daily basis."
Bilbao, Mar 29 (EFE) .- The Basque Museum of Bilbao has presented this morning a new external warehouse of more than 1,000 square meters that will house more than 50,000 pieces, a "pioneering" space that has involved an investment of 1.7 million of euros.FOOTAGE OF THE NEW WAREHOUSE AT THE BASQUE MUSEUM OF BILBAO
Johannesburg (South Africa), 12 feb (EFE/EPA).- (CAMERA: Kim Ludbrook) Multiflora flower market is fully prepared to sell roses for Valentines day. With some 600 flower growers on its books and great florists, Multiflora is the largest flower auction house in Africa. At least 80% of the flowers on auction at Multiflora are grown within 300km of Johannesburg. The rest come from the Cape, Natal and the northern regions of the country, as far as Kenya, Zimbabwe and other African countries.
The owner of the Sheats Goldstein residence hopes it will inspire architects. Alicia Powell reports.
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