2023-10-05 19:33:42
The Council of State has definitively buried a controversial wind farm project which should have seen the light of day a few kilometers from Illiers-Combray (Eure-et-Loir), the writer’s childhood home.
The highest administrative court confirms a previous decision of the administrative court of Versailles estimating that the wind farm project near Proust “would risk causing significant harm” to landscapes “closely linked to the life and work of the writer”as revealed Thursday by the daily Release.
The Combray Énergie company wanted to erect eight wind turbines in the communes of Montigny-le-Chartif and Vieuxvicq, located a few kilometers from the rural town that Marcel Proust (1871-1922) made famous in Near Swann.
The project was blocked in 2020 by the prefect of Eure-et-Loir, supported by the environmental defense association of residents of the Thironne and the society of friends of Marcel Proust and friends of Combray.
In its judgment rendered on Wednesday, the Council of State validates the decision of the Versailles court rendered in April 2022. The magistrates had held that “the planned wind turbines would be visible from certain locations located within the perimeter of the remarkable heritage site of Illiers-Combray or on its periphery to judge that the wind farm project would risk causing significant harm” to a remarkable and classified site, recalls the Council of State.
The court of Versailles had “also noted that the bell tower of the church of Illiers-Combray and the Pré Catelan garden, designed by Jules Amiot, uncle of Marcel Proust, are classified as historical monuments”.
The Council of State thus agrees with the court for having taken “taking into consideration elements relating to the historical, memorial, cultural and particularly literary dimensions of the landscape” in order to oppose the industrial project.
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