Guermantes

Guermantes
Commune
The town hall in Guermantes
The town hall in Guermantes
Location of Guermantes
Guermantes is located in France
Guermantes
Guermantes
Location within France
Guermantes is located in Île-de-France (region)
Guermantes
Guermantes
Location within Île-de-France (region)
Coordinates: 48°51′19″N 2°42′24″E / 48.8553°N 2.7067°E / 48.8553; 2.7067
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementTorcy
CantonLagny-sur-Marne
IntercommunalityMarne et Gondoire
Government
 • Mayor (2025–2026) Annie Viard
Area
1
1.26 km2 (0.49 sq mi)
Highest elevation
121 m (397 ft)
Lowest elevation
97 m (318 ft)
Population
 (2023)
1,153
 • Density915/km2 (2,370/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77221 /77600
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (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 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.”

Demographics

Inhabitants are called Guermantais.

Schools

The town has a preschool and an elementary school in a single school group. Junior high school students attend Collège Léonard de Vinci in Saint Thibault des Vignes.

Area senior high schools/sixth-form colleges:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 12 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
  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. 1 2 "Enseignement secondaire." Guermantes. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.