![]() ![]() and his family have moved into an apartment in a wing of the hotel particulier - city mansion - of the Duke and Duchesse de Guermantes. ![]() ![]() As the first chapter of the third volume opens, M. But they remained elusive to him, an image in his imagination: “I pictured them either in tapestry, like the Comtesse de Guermantes in the ‘Coronation of Esther’ which hung in our church, or else in iridescent colors, like Gilbert the Bad in the stained glass window …” ( Swann’s Way). had long been obsessed with the Guermantes family, aristocrats who dated their origins to the early middle ages. In volume three we take up the “Guermantes way”. We followed “Swann’s way” in the first volume. The second way was the “Guermantes way”, so named because it passed by Guermantes, the mythic estate of the aristocratic Guermantes family. This was known as the Meseglise way, or “Swann’s way” because it led past Tansonville, the Combray villa of Charles Swann. The first was the way toward the town of Meseglise-la-Vineuse. When he was a child in Combray, the protagonist of Remembrance and his family would take long walks. (Note: This article continues our study of the individual volumes that make up Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”. “The Guermantes Way” is quite lengthy, consisting of two very large chapters, so we will cover each chapter in a separate piece.) ![]()
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