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.
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]
- Lycée Martin Luther King in Bussy-Saint-Georges
- Lycée Emily Brontë in Lognes
- Lycée Jean Moulin in Torcy
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "GROUPE SCOLAIRE DU VAL GUERMANTES." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
- ^ a b "Enseignement secondaire." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
External links
- Official website (in French)
- 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
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