Et certes, plus tard, quand je me rappelais toutes les glorieuses absides que j’ai vues, il ne me serait jamais venu à la pensée de rapprocher d’elles l’abside de Combray. →
And certainly in later years, were I to recall all the glorious apses that I had seen, it would never enter my mind to compare with any one of them the apse of Combray.