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Status: Closed in 1902. (en.wikipedia.org) Literary passage: In Proust's Swann in Love, Swann drives from restaurant to restaurant, pushes on to the Maison Dorée, and later learns that Odette had in fact supped there, hidden from his search. (gutenberg.org) Why it matters: The Maison Dorée is one of Proust's jealousy-sites: a glittering public venue that becomes inwardly haunted. In Balzac and in the wider mythology of boulevard Paris, it is a palace of display; in Proust, that same brilliance turns into uncertainty, missed encounters, and obsessive interpretation. The restaurant is not just fashionable scenery but an engine of emotional misreading. (en.wikipedia.org)