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PROUST, Marcel. Autograph letter signed to Lucien Daudet, n.p. [Paris], n.d. [after 16 May 1915], opening, 'Ce n'était certainement pas Robert et je n'ai aucun parent qui s'appelle Proust'; mentioning that an officer once claimed to be a distant cousin but it was 'pure Roumestanerie', and reflecting on his use of this and other expressions associated with the works of Lucien's father; musing on the abbreviation of names, which he dislikes, 'Mais connaissez-vous q.q.chose d'aussi bête, d'aussi louchon de [sic] necessitait une intervention plus immédiate d'Huguenschmidt dans les dents du fond, que ce prénom abrégé "Napo"'; quoting the abbreviations of names in Swann which are as nothing compared to 'Napo', 4 pages, 8vo.
Daudet in a footnote (Cahiers, V, 139) explains that a doctor-major named Proust had recently arrived in Tours where, he writes, the name was quite common. Proust concludes by saying he would like news of [Ramon] Fernandez, and by thanking Lucien for his kind words about the Israelites. In explanation of this Daudet noted that he had said that he neither approved nor endorsed anti-semitism, (his attitude was not, however, shared by his family, since both his mother and his brother greatly admired Dumont, editor of the anti-semitic La Libre Parole). Kolb, XIV, 133; Cahiers, V (XVII).
Daudet in a footnote (Cahiers, V, 139) explains that a doctor-major named Proust had recently arrived in Tours where, he writes, the name was quite common. Proust concludes by saying he would like news of [Ramon] Fernandez, and by thanking Lucien for his kind words about the Israelites. In explanation of this Daudet noted that he had said that he neither approved nor endorsed anti-semitism, (his attitude was not, however, shared by his family, since both his mother and his brother greatly admired Dumont, editor of the anti-semitic La Libre Parole). Kolb, XIV, 133; Cahiers, V (XVII).