Guermantes

Guermantes

Guermantes

Commune in Île-de-France, France

Guermantes (French pronunciation: [ɡɛʁmɑ̃t] ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the Val de Bussy sector of Marne-la-Vallée. As of 2012, its population was 1,191.

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Writer Marcel Proust adopted its name for the origin of the Guermantes family in À la recherche du temps perdu. Proust Scholar Joshua Landy points out that the only reason Proust "used it in his novel is that no living members of the family remained.”[3]

Demographics

Inhabitants are called Guermantais.

Schools

The town has a preschool and an elementary school in a single school group.[4] Junior high school students attend Collège Léonard de Vinci in Saint Thibault des Vignes.[5]

Area senior high schools/sixth-form colleges:[5]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. [3]
    See Landy's Philosophy As Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust, Chapter 2. "Axioms"; the 1909 letter from Proust to Georges de Lauris, Corr. 9:102.
  4. [4]
    "GROUPE SCOLAIRE DU VAL GUERMANTES." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Enseignement secondaire." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
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