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...Chez Janine, the pilgrim can find De Gaulle postcards embossed in 24-karat gold, pens and pencils, key rings, ashtrays and African stamps bearing the general's likeness. At the curio shop of the father of René Piot, the last villager to talk to the general, are De Gaulle chinaware and letter openers, De Gaulle inside a crystal ball surrounded by floating snow, De Gaulle busts, statuettes, books, records, cassettes, calendars, and crosses of Lorraine of various types. In one respect, however, the general's prophecy has proved wrong. There are absolutely no mementos in nougatine...
Coming on the heels of the Second Vatican Council, a constitution would be an anachronism. The council made its name by creating a fresh, vigorous image of a growing "pilgrim" church, a "People of God" joined in a community that was more mystery than institution. Much of the new image was not dissimilar to the vision of reformers inside and outside the Roman Catholic Church over the centuries: an invisible church of the spirit as opposed to a visible one of structure and hierarchy. Now that idea was part of Roman Catholic theology as well, and progressive theologians were quick...
...true literary pilgrim starts his visit at Mme. Benoist's pátisserie on the Place du Marché, where he begins his evocation of the past by biting into the shell-shaped confection called a madeleine. Ten years ago, the bubbly Mme. Benoist sold only four madeleines a week. "In the past three weeks," she says, "we've sold 1,000. We had to hire another apprentice." Many of those who buy the little cakes (at 12? apiece) are foreigners, for Proust's masterwork has been translated into 17 languages, including Finnish, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian...
...minute walk from "Tante Léonie's" across the Loir River (not to be confused with the Loire) takes the pilgrim to the Pré Catalan. The five-acre garden was created by Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of the area in Paris' Bois du Bologne that bears the same name. The little lagoons, intricate patterns of shade trees, and the tiny lane lined with hawthorns (whose pink blossoms reminded Proust of his favorite dish, strawberries crushed in cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that...
...savor fully the Proustian experience in llliers-Combray, however, the pilgrim must meet a contemporary of the author's, 90-year-old Philibert Louis Larcher. A retired Inspector General of National Education, Larcher has devoted the past 30 years to reminding the town of its Proustian heritage. Through his efforts, the Tante Léonie house was made a national monument and the Pré Catalan was preserved. He founded the Society of the Friends of Marcel Proust and the Friends of Combray. His monograph, The Essence of Combray, has been revised and reissued just in time...