Illiers-Combray
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Eure-et-Loir | |
| Arrondissement | Chartres | |
| Canton | Illiers-Combray (main town) | |
| Community association | Entre Beauce et Perche | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 18 ′ N , 1 ° 15 ′ E | |
| height | 144-204 m | |
| surface | 33.60 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,324 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 99 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 28120 | |
| INSEE code | 28196 | |
| Website | www.illiers-combray.fr | |
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Illiers-Combray is a French commune with 3324 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Eure-et-Loir department in the Center-Val de Loire region . The city is located on the left bank of the Loir , 25 kilometers from Chartres .
Surname
The name Illiers is a variation of Hilaire , Latin Hilarius , after Hilarius von Poitiers .
The small town became famous in particular through Marcel Proust , who described it under the name Combray in his cycle of novels In Search of Lost Time ( À la recherche du temps perdu ). The current composite name was decided in 1971 and published as a decree in the Journal Officiel . The occasion was the 100th birthday of the writer Marcel Proust. Illiers-Combray is the only French commune with a name derived from a literary work.
population
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| year | 1793 | 1856 | 1901 | 1954 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
| Residents | 3170 | 3100 | 2812 | 2937 | 3089 | 2971 | 3407 | 3333 | 3329 | 3225 | 3249 | 3324 |
Attractions
- Church Saint-Jacques with painted beamed ceiling from the 16th century
Partner communities
The twin town in the Federal Republic of Germany is Gemünden (Wohra) in Hesse . The partner municipality in Italy is Anversa degli Abruzzi and the English partner municipality is Coniston in the Lake District .
Personalities
- Adrien Proust (1834–1903), doctor, father of Marcel, was born in Illiers in 1834
- Marcel Proust (1871–1922) spent parts of his youth here, especially his holidays
- Christophe Ferré , writer, spent part of his childhood in Illiers-Combray
