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\"pink_macaron\"<\/a>I had planned my disclaimer before he even opened the door. What kind of an idiot, I had realized belatedly, brings noted francophile and former Paris-dweller Edmund White bootleg, neon, NYC-made macaroons for tea at his apartment? \u201cMr. White, I am so embarrassed …\u201d<\/p>\n

I never had a chance to tell him. He was kind and warm, thrilled with the fat, ersatz cookies, even claiming he loved them, got them himself sometimes. We sat down together in White\u2019s living room with a pot of English tea and two Fiesta teal-colored teacups, me on the couch facing him, in one of a pair of battered brown club chairs. He was wearing a pale-blue checkered shirt and navy pants. I\u2019d interrupted his taxes, visible on the den table.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d been put in touch by Kathryn Hamilton, press attach\u00e9 of the Cultural Services at the French Embassy, in regards to the Marcel Proust exhibit they organized with the BnF at the Morgan Library for the upcoming centennial of Swann\u2019s Way<\/em>. This was our initial point of contact, at least. Paris gossip was more pressing. I\u2019d just gotten back from the city where White lived for many years, the subject of his upcoming memoir, Inside a Pearl<\/em>. He\u2019d initially wanted to call it Paris Gossip<\/em>, but the publisher wouldn\u2019t have it. They wanted more depth. \u201cI don\u2019t think it will ever be published in France,\u201d White told me, because of French invasion-of-privacy laws. \u201cI used to call myself an archaeologist of gossip,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s sort of Proust, too\u2014not to make a comparison between my humble self and the great Proust.\u201d <\/p>\n

White first wrote about Proust for a senior paper and has read him many times, though only recently in French, as prior to moving to Paris his language skills weren\u2019t so good. \u201cI lied to Vogue<\/em> and told them I spoke perfect French; I didn\u2019t at all,\u201d he says of going to work for Susan Train in the Paris bureau as a freelance culture journalist. His first assignment was to interview Eric Rohmer (\u201cI couldn\u2019t understand anything he was saying\u201d). Along the way, prior to writing a biography of Proust for James Atlas, he would write a seminal work on Jean Genet, and it was this project that led him to Proust once more. White told me all of this and then stood up to take a hot yellow macaroon and change seats, to my left. I hoped he didn\u2019t notice the pink and blue sugar confetti.<\/p>\n

We started to talk about Lorenza Foschini\u2019s book Proust\u2019s Overcoat<\/em>, the English translation of which I\u2019ve written about for this Web site. White likes Foschini and describes her as so nice that she had even liked Jacques Guerin, the man who acquired Proust\u2019s effects and features prominently in her book. White, for his part, hated him, describing him as\u00a0\u201ca terrible man,\u201d the \u201cblack sheep\u201d of his family. White first encountered Guerin while researching Genet; Guerin was a book dealer, and in his possession was both an edition of Genet poems dedicated to Sartre and a manuscript of Thieves Journal<\/em>, complete with variants and suppressed pages\u2014but he was stingy about allowing scholars access to the papers. \u201cPainting collectors don\u2019t mind if you look at their wares because they are unique objects,\u201d White said, explaining Guerin\u2019s miserable approach to business dealings. He was well aware that \u201cif you don\u2019t know the book and haven\u2019t seen the manuscript, once you have you don\u2019t care about the object itself.\u201d When White visited Guerin he secretly taped the dealer reading aloud from relevant documents. Guerin\u2019s secretary spied the tape recorder and White later received a call in which Guerin called him a cad.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I copied it and returned it,\u201d says White. \u201cWhen the book came out, he was dead. The French are so possessive, closefisted they think it\u2019s property. I like American openhandedness.\u201d (White has another story of going rogue for this project\u2014\u201cvery costly and devious\u201d\u2014which involves enlisting an American girl to take French lessons, at his expense,\u00a0from a woman who refused to talk to anyone about Genet.)<\/p>\n

Researching Proust has been slightly less Machiavellian, but no less eventful. While in the process of working on the biography, White attended a dinner at the home of the Princesse de Caraman-Chimay at her little house in the eighteenth-century courtyard of a building on rue de Lille. Their hostess recounted a memory of her great-uncle.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came out one morning to find his footman sobbing. He asked what was wrong.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mr Proust is dead.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I didn\u2019t know you knew him.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018He used to come by after parties and give me a handsome tip to tell him what happened.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogue tactics by a fellow gossip archaeologist.<\/p>\n

White changed seats again, back to the other club chair. I asked him where had he found them. It was, it turns out, at a place on the Right Bank. The three remaining macarons\u2014an ugly blue (oddly peanut-butter flavored, which doesn\u2019t even exist in France), a pale lavender with white cream, and an electric orange, kind of like those vending-machine crackers also made with peanut butter\u2014sat on a table from the forties purchased at the Paris flea market. On the floor sat a dehydrated, hollow ostrich leg, retaining one clawed toe and one little stub of toe, which White\u2019s late lover, Hubert Soren, brought him from Ethiopia. Next to it was a child\u2019s toy lion from India. On the table was White\u2019s favorite piece, a black and gold vase patterned with bats. He told me the maid had cleaned off the patina, but he still loves it: a remnant of the twenties fad for\u00a0japonaiserie, found in the Bastille, which he fills with flowers\u2014often his favorite, freesia.<\/p>\n

Across the room sat a diorama in a mirrored case that could have been part of a pop contemporary piece filled with found objects, like two kitschy clear-plastic pianos filled with floating magenta and cream pearls. It was, he tells me, made by a friend of his who was\u00a0\u201cmarried to Babar the Elephant, the man who did it,\u201d Marie-Claude de Brunhoff. She created many of these unique pieces in the eighties, this one containing two painted plastic walruses, each seated at one of the pianos in a room furnished with a mini chandelier, a pair of spectacles, feathered companions, and a trompe l\u2019oeil library. De Brunhoff had told White that the walruses were supposed to be Proust and Reynaldo Hahn; she was, says White, always making these kind of pointed, cultural allusions.\u00a0\u201cIt was the part of her I didn\u2019t like, French in a bad way,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

And so I take my leave, my awkward embarrassment completely banished. There\u2019s no pretension to White. He\u2019s an observer and a lover and happy for my bad macarons. At least, I think, I had not brought madeleines.<\/p>\n

Stephanie LaCava is the author of<\/em>\u00a0An Extraordinary Theory of Objects<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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