Laure Hillerin au café de la Mairie, place St Sulpice, Paris 6ème
Suite à tout le tintouin mondial (world buzz) qui a secoué le monde littéraire, le monde des médias, le monde des historiens, le monde des amoureux des costumes 1900, enfin le monde tout court, l'une des figures importantes de l'énigme qui a fasciné la planète, LAURE HILLERIN, découvreuse précoce du petit film de tous les espoirs, sera au prochain "Dînez avec Proust", le jeudi 9 mars, à 20 h, au premier étage du Café de la mairie, place St Sulpice, où pour une fois les Guermantes, prévus, laisseront leur place à leurs modèles,les Greffulhe et leur témoin:
Following the world buzz that has shaken the literary world, but also the world of media, the world of historians, the world of Belle Epoque lovers, at last the whole world, one of the most important players of the enigma that has fascinated the planet LAURE HILLERIN, who had discovered early the short movie-of-all-hopes, will attend on Thursday March 9, at 8 pm, "Dînez avec Proust",at Café de la mairie, place St Sulpice, where, for once, the scheduled Guermantes, will leave their place to their models, the Greffulhes and their witness (Laure)
I can see all that departing crowd now, I can see, if I be not mistaken in placing him upon that staircase, a portrait detached from its frame, the Prince de Sagan, whose last appearance in society this must have been, baring his head to offer his homage to the Duchess, with so sweeping a revolution of his tall hat in his white-gloved hand (harmonising with the gardenia in his buttonhole), that one felt surprised that it was not a plumed felt hat of the old regime, several ancestral faces from which were exactly reproduced in the face of this great gentleman. He stopped for but a short time in front of her, but even his momentary attitudes were sufficient to compose a complete tableau vivant, and, as it were, an historical scene. Moreover, as he has since then died, and as I never had more than a glimpse of him in his lifetime, he has so far become for me a character in history, social history at least, that I am quite astonished when I think that a woman and a man whom I know are his sister and nephew. Cities of the Plain