Combray
Combray () is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in north-western France. 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.