Translations:CP 02906/21/en
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- ↑ It was Lucien Daudet who introduced Louis Gautier-Vignal to Proust in June 1914. In his letter of [7 September 1914], Proust asked Mme Catusse if she knew this young man who was also resident in Nice (see CP 02823; Kolb, XIII, no. 172). Mme Catusse must have made enquiries about him, and in her reply (not found) showed a low regard for the family whose notability was only very recent. Originally from Nice, Albert Gautier (aka Gautier-Vignal), the father of the young man, had been made a Comte by Pope Léon XIII in 1895, and was consul general for Romania at Nice. He was most notably president or vice-president of several Nice sporting societies. Louis Gautier-Vignal himself had been a pupil of Roland Garros. In response to the information provided by Mme Catusse (in a letter which has not come down to us), Proust had no doubt admitted that he neither knew nor kept company with this family, a source of misunderstanding that he is attempting to clear up here. [PK, FL]