Marcel Proust, George D. Painter: "In June Proust wrote for Dreyfus's benefit an unpublished parody of the popular novelist Paul Adam."
Letter to Robert Dreyfus, 28 or 29 June 1909: "I've done you ("just for fun") a pastiche of Adam (Paul, the distaste I feel for Juliette, prevents me from any such pastiche) I don't know if I've sent it to you. What a funny way of writing that celebrated prosifier has."