Guermantes () 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 2022, its population was 1,151.
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.”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.
Demographics Inhabitants are called Guermantais.
Schools The town has a preschool and an elementary school in a single school group."GROUPE SCOLAIRE DU VAL GUERMANTES." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. Junior high school students attend Collège Léonard de Vinci in Saint Thibault des Vignes."Enseignement secondaire." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
Area senior high schools/sixth-form colleges: Lycée Martin Luther King in Bussy-Saint-Georges Lycée Emily Brontë in Lognes Lycée Jean Moulin in Torcy
See also Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department
References
External links
Official website 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région)