Mrs. Strauss' salon in Trouville
It was in Trouville, from 1890 onwards, well before taking board at the Grand Hôtel de Cabourg from 1907 to 1914, that Marcel Proust (1871-1922) discovered the Normandy coast.
For several summers, he frequented the salon of Madame Strauss at the Clos des Muriers, a famous villa on the heights of Trouville. Madame Geneviève Straus, widow of Georges Bizet, held a salon in Paris at the end of the 19th century.
One could meet Clémenceau, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Degas and Robert de Montesquiou, Jacques Émile Blanche and Marcel Proust. In 1893, she built with her husband Emile Straus, a villa "Le Clos des Mûriers" on the heights of Trouville.
Her Parisian salon took up residence there for the summer and Mrs. Straus invited Marcel Proust, a friend of her son Jacques, who had discovered Trouville two years earlier.
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François Xavier Epaud: Doctor of Medicine, fascinated by the work and the world of Marcel Proust since his adolescence. He is particularly interested in Geneviève Strauss, who gave some of her features to the Duchess Orianne de Guermantes.