Time Regained & a Guide to Proust

by Marcel Proust

  CHARMEL. Footman to M. de Charlus: III 766. Charlus proposes that Morel should adopt the name: IV 628.

  CHTELLERAULT, Duc de. At Mme de Villeparisis’s: III 284, 287, 296; his rudeness to Bloch: 334. At Mme de Guermantes’s: 590–91; his ploy with the lovesick footman: 675–76. Known to Jupien: IV 16. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s: 45; his embarrassing encounter with the usher: 45–46, 49–50. Barely escaped being thrown out of the Jockey Club, according to Charlus: V 413. Asks for Gilberte’s hand in marriage: 897. His appearance in old age: VI 26.

  CHTELLERAULT, Prince de. Friend of the Prince de Foix; his matrimonial ambitions: III 553–54.

  CHAUFFEUR. Hired by M at Balbec: IV 536–38. Charlus also a customer of his: 550–51. Informs M of his recall to Paris: 580. His intimacy with Morel: 580 (cf. 550–51, 558). Conspires with Morel to oust the Verdurins’ coachman and take his job: 582–84. Lent to M by the Verdurins in Paris: V 12. Praises Morel to Jupien’s niece: 80. M’s doubts about his vigilance over Albertine; his account of the excursion to Versailles: 167–74. Albertine’s accomplice in the invented trip to Balbec: 448–50. Extravagantly tipped by M: 494.

  CHAUSSEGROS, Marquise de. Her supposed acquaintance with M: III 682–83.

  CHAUSSEPIERRE, M. de. Nephew of “old mother Chanlivault”: IV 98–99. Ousts M. de Guermantes from the presidency of the Jockey Club: V 41–43.

  CHAUSSEPIERRE, Mme de. Oriane refuses to recognise her at the Princesse de Guermantes’s soirée: IV 98–99. Her modesty; her musical parties: V 41–43.

  CHENOUVILLE, M. de. Referred to by the young Mme de Cambremer as “my uncle de Ch’nouville”: IV 294–95, 674.

  CHEVREGNY, M. de. Relation of the Cambremers; travels on the little train; his provinciality and lack of taste: IV 662–63. Turned away by Mme de Cambremer when Charlus expected to dinner: 670–71. Invites M to lunch: 682.

  CITRI, Marquise de. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s; her horror of high society and her all-embracing nihilism: IV 117–19.

  COACHMEN. Mme Verdurin’s: see Howsler. Swann’s: see Rémi.

  COIGNET. One of Charlus’s valets: III758.

  CONDUCTOR (of a tram or a bus) with whom Charlus has a rendezvous: IV 157, 732–34 (see also 13–16).

  COTTARD, Doctor. Member of the Verdurins’ “little clan”: I 265–67. His artificial smile, naïve thirst for knowledge, obsession with figures of speech; his puns and his literal-mindedness: 281–86, 288, 357–60, 370. Failure to understand either Vinteuil’s sonata or M. Biche’s painting: 300–1. His stupidity and social inexperience: 304–7. Conversation with Forcheville: 371–74. Becomes “Professor Cottard”: II 1–3. His fame, prestige and diagnostic gifts: 4–5. His newly acquired air of glacial impassivity: 5. Called in to attend M; his prescriptions; “we realised that this imbecile was a great physician”: 95–97. Speaks favourably of M to Mme Swann: 102. Invited to dinner at the Swanns’: 128–30. Bergotte’s “mannikin in a bottle”: 172, 197–98. Called in to attend M’s grandmother: III 404–5; has “something of the greatness of a general” in deciding on the right course of treatment: 438. “The most unfaithful and most attentive of husbands”: 448. Meets M at Incarville; his remark about Albertine and Andrée dancing together: IV 262–64. His professional jealousy and his failure to cure a grand-duke: 265–66. Narrowly misses the little train: 361–63. His new self-assurance: 366–67. Has a passenger ejected from the “little clan’s” compartment: 371. The importance of the Verdurin Wednesdays in his life: 372, 377–80. Excited by the idea of meeting the Cambremers: 382–85. Introduces M to Princess Sherbatoff: 393–95. Loses his ticket: 396–98. Introduced to Charlus: 421, who momentarily misinterprets his winks: 430–34. Criticises M. de Cambremer’s clichés: 436. Questions M about his fits of breathlessness: 441. Discusses Charlus with Ski: 450–51. Plays a game of cards with Morel, interspersed with puns and witticisms: 485, 491–94, 507–9. Mme Verdurin sings his praises for the benefit of M. de Cambremer: 487–88, 492. Teases his wife when she dozes off, and discusses drugs with M. de Cambremer: 488–92. His hand-rubbing and shoulder-shaking: 508. Criticises Dr du Boulbon: 510–11. With Charlus in the little train—his confused attitude to the Baron: 593–94, 612–16. Invited by Charlus to be his second: 635, 641–44. Re fuses, on Mme Verdurin’s instructions, an invitation to dine at the Cambremers’: 665–67. His death referred to prematurely: V 321. Looks after Sanierte, and informs M of the Verdurins’ generosity to him: 436–39. Mentioned in the Goncourt pastiche: VI 27. At the Verdurins’ during the war, in a colonel’s uniform with a sky-blue sash: 115. Dies from overwork: 116.

  COTTARD, Mme Léontine. Wife of the above. At the Verdurins’: I 265, 281, 286; her homely taste in painting and music: 300–1; the Japanese salad in Francillon: 362–66. Meets Swann in a bus; discusses painting with him; assures him of Odette’s affection: 532–36. Entertains her husband’s colleagues and pupils: II 4. Her visits to Odette: 109. Her modesty and good nature: 121. Her stately language: 235, 243–51. Her devotion to her husband: 237, 249–50. Calls on M’s family during his grandmother’s last illness, and offers to lend her a “waiting-woman”: III 448. Her effeminate nephew: IV 415. At La Raspelière: 434–36, 458–59; falls asleep after dinner: 488–92; small talk with M. de Cambremer: 495. With Charlus in the little train; her mistake about his religion: 594–98. Accused by her husband of being neurotic: 613–14. Charlus’s rudeness to her: 643–44. Invited by an unsuspecting guest of the Verdurins to the luxury brothel at Maine ville: 647–49.

  COURGIVAUX, M. de. M takes him for his son at the Princesse de Guermantes’s reception: VI 28.

  COURVOISIER, Vicomte Adalbert de. Nephew of Mme de Gal-lardon, “a young man with a pretty face and an impertinent air,” introduced to Charlus at the Prince de Guermantes’s soirée: IV 71. An invert but a good husband: VI 29. Frequents Jupien’s brothel: 194.

  COURVOISIERS, The. Relations and rivals of the Guermantes clan; their social ethos compared and contrasted with the latter’s: III 604–19, 631–32, 639–43, 651–55.

  COUSIN (female) by whom M is initiated into “the delights of love” on Aunt Léonie’s sofa: II 208–9.

  COUSIN of M’s nicknamed “No flowers by request”: III 465.

  COUSIN (of Bloch). See LEVY, Esther.

  CRÉCY, Pierre de Verjus, Comte de. Impoverished nobleman with a taste for good food and wine, cigars and genealogy, befriended by M at Balbec: IV 657–61. His patronym is Saylor, hence the family motto Ne scats l’heure: 661. Invites himself to dinner: 695. M learns from Charlus that he was Odette’s first husband, and lives on an allowance from Swann: V 402.

  CRÉCY, Mme de. See Odette.

  CRIQUETOT, M. de. “How goes it?”: IV 698.

  CRIQUETOT, Comtesse de. Cousin of the Cambremers; M receives notice of her death at Balbec: IV 251.

  CURÉ of Combray. His asparagus: I 74. His brother a tax-collector at Châteaudun: 78. His visits to Aunt Léonie; his knowledge of etymology: 94, 142–47, 165. “Touches the Princesse des Laumes for 100 francs a year: 485. Transferred to Criquetot for a time; his pamphlet on the place-names of the Balbec district: IV 282. Brichot’s criticisms of this work: 387–93, 434–35, 534–36. Knew what was “right and proper”: V 9–10.

  DAIRYMAID who brings M a letter at the Grand Hotel, Balbec: II 400.

  DAIRYMAID. “Startling towhead” glimpsed by M at the dairy: V 178–79. Brought in by Françoise to run an errand: 181–85, 189–90.

  DALTIER, Emilie. Pretty girl—“a good golfer”—known to Albertine: V 551.

  DANCER, back-stage in the theatre, admired by Rachel: III 235–41.

  DECHAMBRE. Pianist patronised by Mme Verdurin. Brichot announces his death; discussion about his age: IV 396–97. Effect of his death on the Verdurins: 399–407, 445–46. M. Verdurin speaks of him to Charlus: 463. (See Pianist (young) patronised by the Verdurins.)

  DEL AGE, Suzanne. Mistakenly believed by Albertine and Mme Bontemps to have been a childhood friend of M’s: III 503–5.

  DELTOUR, General. Sec
retary to the Presidency of the Republic. Approached by Charlus in connexion with Morel’s decoration: V 371–72.

  DIEULAFOY, Professor. See Index of Persons.

  DRAWING-MASTER (of M’s grandmother), who never saw his mistress without a hat: II 598–99.

  DUCRET. One of Charlus’s valets: III 758.

  DURAS, Duc de. Mentioned by the Duc de Guermantes in connexion with Saint-Loup’s election to the Jockey Club: III 322. Marries the widowed Mme Verdurin; dies two years later: VI 30.

  DURAS, Duchesse de. At the Verdurins’ musical soirée; praised by Charlus: V 366–70; resented by Mme Verdurin: 416, 420–21.

  DURAS, Duchesse de. See Verdurin, Mme.

  DUROC, Major. Lecturer on military history admired by Saint-Loup: III 97–98, 135–38; his Dreyfusism: 139–40.

  E———, Professor. Distinguished doctor whom M persuades to examine his grandmother after her stroke; his bad grace and his pessimistic (and accurate) verdict: III 426–27, 430–32. M meets him again at the Princesse de Guermantes’s soirée: IV 54–57.

  EGREMONT, Vicomtesse d’. Assumes the role of parlour-maid chez the Princesse d’Epinay: III 634.

  ELSTIR. Painter, habitué of the Verdurin salon, where he is known as “Master Biche”: I 266, 281. His love of matchmaking: 285. Invites Swann and Odette to visit his studio; his portrait of Cottard: 286. His painting too advanced for the Cottards: 300–1. Swann finds him pretentious and vulgar, but admires his intelligence: 351, 355. His flashy dissertation on a fellow-painter: 361–62 much admired by Forcheville: 365. His (perhaps deliberate) gaffe in front of Swann: 403–4. Reputed lover of Odette: 506 (cf. 602; V 592–93). Goes on a cruise with the Verdurins after an illness: 531–32. Appears in Swann’s dream: 538–40. His art compared to that of Mme de Sévigné: II 315. M and Saint-Loup meet him in the restaurant at Rive-belle—“the famous painter Elstir”: 553–57. M’s visit to his studio; his seascapes; visual “metaphors;” Balbec church; his friendship with Albertine; the portrait of “Miss Sacripant;” Mme Elstir, “my beautiful Gabrielle!;” his ideals as a painter: 564–89. Walks with M along the front; meets the “little band;” is revealed as “M. Biche”: 592–607. “We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves”: 605–6. His revelation to M of the poetry of “still lifes”: 613. Gives a party at which M meets Albertine: 613–16. His good taste in dress; his influence on Albertine: 634–35 (see also IV 617–18). Speaks of race-meetings, regattas, landscapes and seascapes, Venice, costume (Fortuny): 652–58. His influence on M’s way of seeing things, and on his attitude to Berma’s art: III 27, 39, 51, 59. Saint-Loup’s high opinion of his intelligence: 135. M’s passion for his work—“my favourite painter”: 162–64. Mme de Guermantes’s Elstirs: 162–64, 185. Norpois and The Bunch of Radishes: 299. M sees the Guermantes’ Elstirs at last: 573–78. Swann’s attitude to him recalled (“an oaf,” “balderdash”): 631. His work criticised by the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes: 685–88. His portrait of Oriane: 717. His work disliked by the Kaiser: 717, 721 (cf. IV 470–71). Admired by Albertine and Mme de Cambremer: IV 283–84. Compared with Ski: 367–68. His breach with the Verdurins: 458–65. His opinion of the church of Marcouville-l’Orgueilleuse: 561–62 (cf. V 217–18). M visits the scene of two of his landscapes: 581–82. His austere taste in women’s clothes: 617–18. His paintings of a little boy on the sands at Saint-Pierre-des-Ifs: 692–93. His passion for violets: V 178, 181. In contradiction with his own impressionism: 217 (cf. IV 562). Brichot describes his “buffooneries” in the old days at the Verdurins’: 266. The uniqueness of his art: seeing the universe through other eyes: 339, 343. His views on the furnishing of yachts, on old silver, on Fortuny gowns: 237–38, 496–97 (cf. II 653–54). Compared to Dostoievsky and Mme de Sé vigne: 510. Two of his pictures sold to the Luxembourg by Mme de Guermantes: 545. Significance of his portrait of Odette: had he been her lover?: 592–93. His intellectual charm: 668, 670. His paintings of naked girls in a wooded landscape remind M of Albertine and the laundry-girls: 710–11. His work becomes fashionable: 787–88. Mentioned in the Goncourt pastiche; Mme Verdurin claims to have taught him how to paint flowers (“he was always known simply as Monsieur Tiche”): VI 31. His grief at M. Verdurin’s death: 116–17.

  ELSTIR, Mme. M meets her in the artist’s studio at Balbec; “My beautiful Gabrielle!”: II 586–88. Albertine admires her taste in clothes: 634. Denounced by Mme Verdurin as a “trollop”: IV 460–61. Embodies the kind of “heavy” “Venetian” beauty Elstir sought to capture in his painting: VI 32.

  ENTRAGUES, Mile d’. Daughter of the Duc de Luxembourg, sought in marriage by Saint-Loup and by the Duc de Châtel-lerault: V 898.

  EPINAY, Victurnienne, Princesse d’. Entertains the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes; admires Oriane’s witticisms (“Teaser Augustus”): III 633–40.

  EPINOY, Princesse d’. Astonished at the brilliance of Odette’s salon: IV 195–96.

  EPORGHEVILLE, Mile d’. Name wrongly thought by M to be that of the girl of good family recommended by Saint-Loup as a frequenter of brothels: V 760–65, 772–74. (See Orgeville, Mlle de l’; Gilberte.)

  ESTHER. See Levy, Esther.

  EUDOXIA, Queen. Wife of King Theodosius: V 327–28.

  EUDOXIE, Grand Duchess. Friend of Princess Sherbatoff: IV 372–74.

  EUGÈNE, M. Deputy of the Liberal Action party, an habitué of Jupien’s brothel: VI 33. Re-elected after the war: 237.

  EULALIE. Retired domestic servant at Combray; confidante of Aunt Léonie: I 93–96. Visits Aunt Léonie with the Curé: 141–48. Her rivalry with Françoise: 148–51, 162–65 (cf. V 475–76, 486). Praised by Françoise after her death: III 24. M remembers a week spent in her room in early childhood: VI 34.

  FAFFENHEIM-MUNSTERBURG-WEINIGEN, Prince von. German Prime Minister. Visits Mme de Villeparisis; poetry of his name belied by his persona; his efforts to persuade Norpois to get him elected to the Institut: III 345–56. Introduced to M by Norpois: 370. Praises Mme de Villeparisis’s painting: 372. At the Guermantes’ dinner-party; his vise-like German handclasp; his nickname “Prince Von”: 591. Speaks to M about Rachel, and invites him to come home with him: 697–99. His ironical praise of the Kaiser’s intelligence and taste in art: 721–22. His hatred of the English: 722–23. A Dreyfusard: IV 105.

  FARCY, Mme de. American wife of the Comte de Farcy, an obscure relation of the Forchevilles; friend of Bloch: VI 35.

  FATHER of the narrator. His interest in meteorology: I 12 (see also 127, 233; V 95–96). Annoyed by the “good-night kiss”: 15, and by his wife’s pleas on behalf of Swann’s wife and daughter: 29–30. His arbitrariness; his unexpected indulgence; his resemblance to Benozzo Gozzoli’s Abraham: 46–49. His fondness for chocolate cream: 97. M resembles him, according to Uncle Adolphe: 105. The “lady in pink” (Odette) finds him “exquisitely charming,” to M’s surprise: 106. Quarrels with Uncle Adolphe: 109. Irritated by Bloch: 127. Evening walks round Combray: 159–60. Doubts about Legrandin: 166–67, and vain efforts to elicit from him information about his relations at Balbec: 182–86. His influential position: 244. Discusses M’s proposed visit to Venice: 557–59. Unaware of M’s passion for Gilberte Swann: 586–88. Dismisses Swann as a “pestilent” fellow: II 1. His relations with Norpois: 7–10, and their effect on his attitude to M’s career: 12–13. Invites Norpois to dinner: 21, discusses M’s career with him: 29–36, and talks to him about international affairs: 41–48. Proposed trip to Spain with Norpois: 48 (cf. 304). Resigns himself to M’s abandonment of diplomacy for literature: 73–74. His opinion of Norpois: 75–77. Discusses restaurants with Françoise: 78–79. His reactions on hearing of M’s meeting with Bergotte: 201–3. Mme de Villeparisis speaks of him and his trip with Norpois; his admiration for El Greco: 381–82. His naivety: 710. His liking for thin toast exasperates Françoise: III 25–26. His relations with the Duc de Guermantes: 34, 195–97. His candidature for the Institut; will Norpois support him?: 199 (see also 301–4). “Cut” by Mme Sazerat because of his anti-Dreyfusism: 199–200.
Norpois speaks about him to M: 302–4. During the illness of M’s grandmother: 464–70. Appears in M’s dreams about his grandmother: IV 216–18, 241–42. M’s increasing resemblance to him: V 93–97, 112–13, 135–37. His sensibility concealed behind a cold exterior: 136–37. His brusque manner: 137–38.

  FÉRÉ, M. and Mme. Fashionable friends of the Cambremers, who give a dinner in their honour: IV 670–72. M plays chess with them: 697.

  FIERBOIS, Marquis de. His “complicated and rapid capers” condemned as ridiculous by Charlus: III 611. His illness: IV 2.

  FISHER-GIRL approached by M at Carqueville: II 402–1-.