The participants

THE SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL COMMITTEE

The Scientific and Cultural Committee is the collective mind of the project and is made up of experts and scholars from the museum world, scientific research field, the art market and literary and economic circles.

Alongside of Tristan Duval,Councillor Responsible of Attractiveness, Tourism and Major Urban Projects, and his team, a Scientific and Cultural Committee is led under the leadership of Jérôme Neutres, former director of strategy and development for the Réunion des Musées Nationaux– Grand Palais and former executive president of the museum of Luxembourg.

 

  • Sylvain Amic, Chairman of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, curatorial director of the Réunion des Musées Métropolitains de Rouen from 2016 to 2022
  • Jérôme Clément, Chairman of the Alliance Française, founder of Arte and former Chairman of the CNC, PIASA and the Board of Théâtre du Châtelet
  • Jérôme Bastianelli, Deputy Managing Director of the Quai Branly Museum – Jacques Chirac and President of the Society of Friends of Marcel Proust
  • Jean Bergeret, President of La Revue du Pays d´Auge from 2011 to 2022
  • Cécile Binet, Museum advisor at the DRAC of Normandy
  • Evelyne Bloch-Dano, writer and member of the Prix Femina jury
  • Gérard de Cortanze, writer and President of the Cabourg du Roman Prize jury
  • Josette Crief, treasurer of the Association for the foreshadowing of the Villa du Temps retrouvé from 2019 to 2022
  • Bruno Donzet, architect
  • Michel Draguet, Director General of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, from 2005 to 2023
  • Françoise Dutour, historian
  • Laurent Fraisse, President of the Proustian Literary Circle
  • Jacques Grande, decorator and interior designer
  • Stéphane Guégan, historian, art critic and scientific advisor to the Chairman of the Orsay and Orangerie museums
  • Laure Hillerin, writer and historian specializing in Marcel Proust
  • Dominique Kalifa, historian and chairman of the Sorbonne chair on the Belle Époque, who died in 2020
  • Roma Lambert, Director of the Villa du Temps retrouvé, historian specialist of the 19th century
  • Nathalie Léger, Director of IMEC, Caen
  • Guylaine Leloutre, heritage coordinator for the Intercommunal Tourist Office of the Normandie Cabourg Pays d’Auge Community of Communes
  • Emmanuelle Le Bail, Deputy Mayor of Cabourg responsible for Culture and Heritage, Cultural and Scientific Director of the Imperial Art Gallery, Paris, Director of the Musée des Avelines, Saint-Cloud, from 2007 to 2021
  • Isabelle Le Masne de Chermont, Honorary General Curator of Libraries, Director of the Manuscript Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, from 2012 to 2023
  • Hervé Lemoine, Director of Mobilier National, Paris
  • Nathalie Mauriac-Dyer, Research Director at CNRS and Head of the Proust team
  • Jean-Jacques Neuer, lawyer
  • Jean-Yves Patte, art historian and musicologist
  • Béatrice de Selve, Councillor Responsible for the Arts from 2014 to 2020
  • Sandrine Treiner, Director of France Culture