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Académie Goncourt to Marcel Proust 10 December [1919]
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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 fleur[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
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
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