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↑ The text initially sent to Le Matin not having been found, it is not known whether or not the published extract was amputated. Given that it occupies thirty-one lines more than the two columns provided for this section, it is not impossible that Colette, learning on 10 December 1919 that the Prix Goncourt had just been awarded to Proust, decided to publish as is the excerpt which is a little too long (even if it means overflowing the section into a third column), this literary news justifying the publication, as is, of the winner's unpublished work. — We have almost no foreword to the episode offered by Proust to Le Matin. In fact, in Cahier XIV, a book of the stay in Venice (1915-1916), we find, inserted in the form of paper, only a primitive version of this scene of the dinner of Norpois and Mme de Villeparisis, where the diplomatic remarks of Norpois concern the political crisis of 1905 with Morocco, in accordance with the romantic chronology, and where the revelation by Mme Sazerat of the scandalous past of Mme de Villeparisis does not exist (see Cahier XIV, foliated paperole f° 96 r° pasted on f° 97 r°; for the transcription of this version, see AD, Esquisse XVI.1, pp. 699-702, or for a more complete transcription, Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, Proust inachevé. The book, "Albertine disparue", Paris, Champion, 2005, "Appendixes", p. 301-304). Proust therefore profoundly reworked this episode in the fall of 1919 with a view to pre-publications in Le Matin and Les Feuillets d'Art (see note 5 below). [FL]

[n4-1] The text initially sent to Le Matin not having been found, it is not known whether or not the published extract was amputated. Given that it occupies thirty-one lines more than the two columns provided for this section, it is not impossible that Colette, learning on 10 December 1919 that the Prix Goncourt had just been awarded to Proust, decided to publish as is the excerpt which is a little too long (even if it means overflowing the section into a third column), this literary news justifying the publication, as is, of the winner's unpublished work. — We have almost no foreword to the episode offered by Proust to Le Matin. In fact, in Cahier XIV, a book of the stay in Venice (1915-1916), we find, inserted in the form of paper, only a primitive version of this scene of the dinner of Norpois and Mme de Villeparisis, where the diplomatic remarks of Norpois concern the political crisis of 1905 with Morocco, in accordance with the romantic chronology, and where the revelation by Mme Sazerat of the scandalous past of Mme de Villeparisis does not exist (see Cahier XIV, foliated paperole f° 96 r° pasted on f° 97 r°; for the transcription of this version, see AD, Esquisse XVI.1, pp. 699-702, or for a more complete transcription, Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, Proust inachevé. The book, "Albertine disparue", Paris, Champion, 2005, "Appendixes", p. 301-304). Proust therefore profoundly reworked this episode in the fall of 1919 with a view to pre-publications in Le Matin and Les Feuillets d'Art (see note 5 below). [FL]

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