Les Creuniers A balcony between the sky and sea

The cliffs at Les Creuniers, described in À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs in conjunction with clifftop picnics and depictions by Elstir, were not imagined by Proust the novelist: the writer extolled the path that opens out to a view, between sky and land, like a balcony over the sea. This place can be reconstituted using archive documents, eliciting analogies with many passages in La Recherche.