Théatres
Aux Maturins
[...] I enjoyed once again a very lively, very witty and very nicely
performed piece by M. Tarride and M. François Vernagre entitled Au
Coin du feu. M. Buriguet, in what is a novel situation for him, is
excellent in it. Mlle Milo d'Arcylle, very graceful and Mlle du Mornand,
too distinguished for a lady's maid, very beautiful to look at. [...]
R. de F [Robert de Flers]
La Liberté 25 May 1903.
Letter to Louis d'Albufera, 9 June 1903: "[...] "I saw my friend Robert de Flers there, (the author of Sire de Vergy) who I had sent the other evening to the Figaro to push for the inclusion of the note about the Mathurins. As I hadn't seen him since I stayed a moment to thank him and he told me that he had also asked the columnist at the Figaro to recommend Mlle de Mornand to his colleagues - and for his part, making use of his close ties with La Liberté (where he is the literary critic) he had put in a little word about Mademoiselle de Mornand. [...]"
The note in La Liberté then was included at Proust's
instigation if not perhaps in his actual words.
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