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    Combray (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃bʁɛ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in north-western France. The commune is part of the area...
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    Illiers-Combray (French pronunciation: [ilje kɔ̃bʁɛ]) is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north central France. Combray was the writer Marcel...
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    chez Swann is divided into four parts: "Combray I" (sometimes referred to in English as the "Overture"), "Combray II", "Un Amour de Swann" ("Swann in Love")...
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    fictional town of Combray, where some of the most important scenes of In Search of Lost Time take place. (Illiers was renamed Illiers-Combray in 1971 on the...
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    Sarthe. Its source is in the Eure-et-Loir department, north of Illiers-Combray. It joins the river Sarthe in Briollay, north of the city of Angers. It...
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  • The canton of Illiers-Combray is an administrative division of the Eure-et-Loir department, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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    was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to...
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    Greatness. Combray House, 2019 Vigeland, Carl and MacLeish, Archibald (2020), October Calf. Combray House, 2020 Vigeland, Carl (2021), Ricochet. Combray House...
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    Geneviève de Brunelle, also known as the Marquise de Combray, (1742–1823), was a royalist and French counter-revolutionary, which means she supported...
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    Esson. The River Orne plus three streams, La Vallee des Vaux, The Pont de Combray and The Traspy, flow through the commune. Communes of the Calvados department...
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