I managed to find a cheap copy while on holidays

Here's the poem in the original French with alt text transcription

Here's the poem in English with alt text transcription

The one thing to be said for [Mme Blatin] is that she's exactly like Savonarola. She's the very image of that portrait of Savonarola by Fra Bartolommeo. II125

Note: In his Proust's Playlist, James Connelly recommends the Guarneri Quartet on RCA. Robert Layton, in his Gramophone review, recommends the Quartetto Italiano on Decca. I like the Alban Berg Quartett on EMI. Additional recommendations welcome

Here's a fascinating concept album. Sonya Yoncheva examines the life of George Sand through the works of artists who were her friends

...and by an internal decree, in spite of what I had just heard, I banished for ever from my mind, as a good Catholic banishes Renan's Vie de Jésus, the corrupting thought that their house was just an ordinary flat in which we ourselves might have been living. II90

If you're lucky enough to visit Paris this spring, don't miss the Proust inspired exhibition at the Yves Saint Laurent museum

Once only one of Gabriel's palaces made me stop for more than a moment; this was because, night having fallen, its columns, dematerialised by the moonlight, had the appearance of having been cut out in pasteboard...

Merry Proustmas! 🎄

And each of them attempted to reproduce the manner which M. de Norpois had uttered these words, as they might have attempted to capture some intonation of Bressant's voice or of Thiron's in L'Aventurière or in La Gendre de M. Poirer. II64