Other languages:

Académie Goncourt to Marcel Proust 10 December [1919]

(Click on the link above to see this letter and its notes in the Corr-Proust digital edition, including all relevant hyperlinks.)

Paris, 10 December^[1]

ACADÉMIE GONCOURT 1903^[2]

Dear Sir and colleague

We have the great honour and pleasure to inform you that you have been selected today to receive the Prix Goncourt for your novel: À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs^[3].

Please accept, dear Sir and colleague, this expression of our most fervent congratulations

Elémir Bourges Gustave Geffroy^[4]

J.H. Rosny aîné

Léon Daudet Léon Hennique

Jean Ajalbert Henry Céard

J.H. Rosny jeune

^[5] ^[6]

Notes

↑ The eight members of the Académie Goncourt who were present at Drouant wrote that same day, 10 December 1919, to the prize winner. [NM]
↑ The will of Edmond de Goncourt, to found the proposed academy, was challenged through the courts in 1897 and in 1900 by his cousins. The statutes of the Literary Society were established and its "public benefit" were recognized in a decree of 19 January 1903 by Prime Minister Émile Combes, which explains the date inscribed in the letterhead. [CSz]
↑ Note 3
↑ Note 4
↑ Translation notes:
↑ Contributors:

[n1-1] The eight members of the Académie Goncourt who were present at Drouant wrote that same day, 10 December 1919, to the prize winner. [NM]

[n2-2] The will of Edmond de Goncourt, to found the proposed academy, was challenged through the courts in 1897 and in 1900 by his cousins. The statutes of the Literary Society were established and its "public benefit" were recognized in a decree of 19 January 1903 by Prime Minister Émile Combes, which explains the date inscribed in the letterhead. [CSz]

[n3-3] Note 3

[n4-4] Note 4

[n5-5] Translation notes:

[n6-6] Contributors:

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

CP 03973/en

Académie Goncourt to Marcel Proust 10 December [1919]

Notes

Navigation menu