Illiers-Combray
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| Commune of Illiers-Combray | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 01° 14' 54" E |
| Latitude | 48° 18' 04" N |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Centre |
| Department | Eure-et-Loir |
| Arrondissement | Chartres |
| Canton | Illiers-Combray |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes Pays de Combray |
| Mayor | Jean-Claude Sédillot (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 144 m–204 m (avg. 162 m) |
| Land area¹ | 33.60 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
3,226 |
| - Density (1999) | 96.0/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 28196/ 28120 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Illiers-Combray is a village and commune of the Eure-et-Loir département in France.
Combray was Marcel Proust's name for the village of Illiers, of which the vivid recreation opens his vast semi-autobiographical novel In Search of Lost Time. Recent Proust scholarship, however, has argued that Proust's descriptions of Combray owe as much to his uncle's home in Auteuil as to Illiers.
In commemoration of his literary achievement, the commune has officially changed its name to Illiers-Combray.
[edit] Reference
- Iliers-Combray: site officiel (in French)
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