Maison Dorée

**Status:** Closed in 1902. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_dor%C3%A9e_%28Paris%29)) **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](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2650/2650-h/2650-h.htm?utm_source=openai)) **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_dor%C3%A9e_%28Paris%29))

20 Boulevard des Italiens, 75009 Paris, France. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_dor%C3%A9e_%28Paris%29))