Combray

Template:About Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox French commune Combray ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in north-western France.<ref>Combray sur le site de la communauté de communes Template:Webarchive</ref> The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.<ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Arcisse de Caumont, Statistika monumentalne Calvados</ref>

Geography

The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.<ref name="auto"/>

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Les Gosselins, Les Soyers, Le Hamel, Le Bas de la Courrière and Combray.<ref name="gmap">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The commune has 2 watercourses running through it The Pont de Combray stream and La Vallee des Vaux stream.