Illiers-Combray

French commune|nomcommune=Illiers-Combray
région=Centre
département=Eure-et-Loir
arrondissement=Chartres
canton=Illiers-Combray
insee=28196
cp=28120
maire=Jean-Claude Sédillot
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Pays de Combray
longitude=1.24833333333
latitude=48.3011111111
alt moy=162 m
alt mini=144
alt maxi=204 m
hectares=3360
km²=33.60
sans=3226
date-sans=1999
dens=96.0
date-dens=1999

Illiers-Combray is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central 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".

References

* [http://perso.wanadoo.fr/le.c19/ Iliers-Combray: site officiel] (in French)