Guermantes
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] DemographicsInhabitants are called Guermantais. SchoolsThe 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]
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