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Aunt Léonie's house, a must-see for Marcel Proust's admirers

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 ”.