Article about the Folies-Bergères (fragment)1


   The winter season has begun, there is nothing more to say. It was proved yesterday evening upon seeing the countless number of pretty women who were adorning the boxes in the Folies-Bergère. ...Apparently all the elegant people from the beaches and other watering places had returned to Paris to celebrate the Isola brothers.

1. On 2 April 1903 Proust was present with Lauris at the re-opening of the Folies-Bergères; he wrote an article in which he gave an account of the evening in a rather whimsical fashion.

See Kolb-Proust ID:C31220 and Corr III, p. 286, n. 3. The source of Kolb's note is unclear, it is also unclear whether this was by Proust. And why would the "winter season" begin in April?

 


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