Guermantes

Guermantes
Commune
The town hall in Guermantes
Location of Guermantes
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Coordinates: 48°51′19″N 2°42′24″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Torcy
Canton	Lagny-sur-Marne
Intercommunality	Marne et Gondoire
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Denis Marchand[1]
Area ^1	1.26 km^2 (0.49 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,148
• Density	910/km^2 (2,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77221 /77600
Elevation	97–121 m (318–397 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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]

Demographics

Inhabitants are called Guermantais.

Schools

The 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]

• 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

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. 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.
4. "GROUPE SCOLAIRE DU VAL GUERMANTES." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
5. "Enseignement secondaire." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.

External links

• Official website (in French)
• 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)