He was a count and spent all his life in the centre of France, in Orléans and Olivet.
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Gaston Lachaise | André-Gaston Prételat | Gaston Maspero | Gaston Leroux | Gaston, Duke of Orléans | Gaston Waringhien | Gaston Bachelard | Cito Gaston | Prince Gaston, Count of Eu | Gaston Salvatore | Gaston Planté | Gaston Miron | Gaston Litaize | Gaston Briart | Gaston Berger | Raleigh and Gaston Railroad | Gaston Modot | Gastón Mazzacane | Gaston Lenôtre | Gaston Flosse | Gaston Chevrolet | East Gaston High School | William Gaston | ''The Death of Gaston de Foix at Ravenna'' by the 19th century artist Ary Scheffer | South Point Township, Gaston County, North Carolina | Lake Gaston | Illiers-Combray | Gaston Tissandier | Gaston Reinig | Gaston Ramon |
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.
Recent Proust scholarship, however, has argued that Proust's descriptions of Combray owe as much to his uncle's home in Auteuil as to Illiers.
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Combray was Marcel Proust's name for the market town of Illiers, of which the vivid recreation opens his vast semi-autobiographical novel In Search of Lost Time.
Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that "Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor" and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor "was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d'Orléans".