The last room of the visit on the first floor of the Villa du Temps Retrouvé in Cabourg is designed as a drawing room. It is intended to highlight the creative process of Marcel Proust as well as his sources of worldly inspiration through a series of drawings, manuscripts, and photographs of personalities of the time. It was especially between 1907 and 1914 that the writer took full advantage of the time he spent in Cabourg, renamed Balbec in his work In Search of Lost Time. A true witness to the beginning of the 20th century, he painted a portrait of the Belle Epoque and the social life of his contemporaries vacationing on the Côte Fleurie (Flowery Coast). Deeply linked to the seaside resort, Marcel Proust gave his name to the promenade that runs along the Cabourg dyke.