Combray () is a commune in the Calvados department in

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

in north-western

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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 A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade. Relatively eas ...

Arcisse de Caumont Arcisse de Caumont (20 August 1801, Bayeux – 16 April 1873) was a French historian and archaeologist. Biography Arcisse Caumont was born at Bayeux to François de Caumont and Marie-Louise de Mathan Hue. One of his mentors was Charles de Gervill ...

, ''Statistika monumentalne Calvados''

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{{authority control Communes of Calvados (department)

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