Combray
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Combray is also an imagined village in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), a book which was strongly inspired by the village of his childhood, Illiers, which has now been renamed Illiers-Combray in his honor. Combray is the title of the first part of the first volume of À la recherche du temps perdu, titled Du côté de chez Swann (Swann's Way).
There is a medieval motte-and-bailey castle.[3]
Geography
The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.[2]
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Les Gosselins, Les Soyers, Le Hamel, Le Bas de la Courrière and Combray.[4]
The commune has 2 watercourses running through it The Pont de Combray stream and La Vallee des Vaux stream.
Population
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References
- ↑ Combray sur le site de la communauté de communes Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ Arcisse de Caumont, Statistika monumentalne Calvados
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