![]() 414 "A few weeks later, when I went upstairs, the sun had already set. He describes a particular view as a “premeditation or specialty of the artist’s, to present a ‘Cloud Study.’” In another, Proust makes an allusion to Whistler’s Crepuscule in Opal. There is a scene in Within a Budding Grove where the narrator describes the differing views looking out on the sea from his room at the Grand-Hôtel. 414, was recreated with period furnishing and décor. The Grand-Hôtel remains virtually unchanged from Proust’s era and continues to operate as a luxury hotel. Proust’s stays at the hotel ended due to the outbreak of World War I, during which time the hotel served as a hospital for wounded soldiers. The building, its dining room, and the esplanade (now the Promenade Marcel Proust) that runs in front of the hotel along the beach are the models for the Grand-Hôtel at Balbec in the novel. ![]() During his long vacations at the hotel, Proust wrote many of the passages for his book. This seaside resort on the Normandy coast is the model for the hotel in the novel that Proust locates in the fictional coastal town of Balbec. Balbec, the fictional seaside resort in Normandy, was inspired largely by Cabourg, which is a real city in northern France, and its waterfront Grand-Hôtel. ![]()
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