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ève de Brabant (9). Family evenings (11). The little closet smelling of orris-root (14; cf. 222). The good-night kiss (15 cf. 29, 35–58). Visits from Swann (16); his father (17); his unsuspected social life (18). “Our social personality is a creation of other people’s thoughts” (23). Mme de Villeparisis’s house in Paris; “the tailor and his daughter” (25). Aunts Céline and Flora (27). Françoise’s code (38). Swann and I (40; cf. 419). My upbringing: “principles” of my grandmother (cf. 12, 13) and my mother; arbitrary behaviour of my father (48). My grandmother’s presents; her ideas about books (52). A reading of George Sand (55).

Resurrection of Combray through involuntary memory. The madeleine dipped in a cup of tea (60).

Combray. Aunt Léonie’s two rooms (66); her lime-tea (69). Françoise (71). The church (80). M. Legrandin (91). Eulalie (93). Sunday lunches (97). Uncle Adolphe’s sanctum (99). Love of the theatre: titles on posters (100). Meeting with “the lady in pink” (104). My family quarrel with Uncle Adolphe (109). The kitchen-maid: Giotto’s “Charity” (110). Reading in the garden (115). The gardener’s daughter and the passing cavalry (121). Bloch and Bergotte (124). Bloch and my family (125). Reading Bergotte (129). Swann’s friendship with Bergotte (135). Berma (135). Swann’s mannerisms of speech and attitudes of mind (135). Prestige of Mlle Swann as a friend of Bergotte’s (138; cf. 582). The Curé’s visits to Aunt Léonie (142). Eulalie and Françoise (148). The kitchen-maid’s confinement (151). Aunt Léonie’s nightmare (152). Saturday lunches (154). The hawthorns on the altar in Combray church (155). M. Vinteuil (155). His “boyish”-looking daughter (157). Walks round Combray by moonlight (159). Aunt Léonie and Louis XIV (165). Strange behaviour of M. Legrandin (166–186). Plan for a holiday at Balbec (182). Swann’s (or the Méséglise) way and the Guermantes way (188).

Swann’s Way. View over the plain (189). The lilacs of Tansonville (190). The hawthorn lane (193). Apparition of Gilberte (197). The lady in white and the man in white “ducks” (Mme Swann and M. de Charlus) (199). Dawn of love for Gilberte: glamour of the name “Swann” (202; cf. 586). Farewell to the hawthorns (204). Mlle Vinteuil’s friend comes to Montjouvain (206). M. Vinteuil’s sorrow (208). The rain (211). The porch of Saint-André-des-Champs, Françoise and Théodore (211). Death of Aunt Léonie; Françoise’s wild grief (215). Exultation in the solitude of autumn (218). Disharmony between our feelings and their habitual expression (218). “The same emotions do not spring up simultaneously in everyone” (219). Stirrings of desire (219). The little closet smelling of orris-root (222; cf. 14). Scene of sadism at Montjouvain (224).

The Guermantes Way. River landscape: the Vivonne (235); the water-lilies (238). The Guermantes; Geneviève de Brabant “the ancestress of the Guermantes family” (242). Daydreams and discouragement of a future writer (243). The Duchesse de Guermantes in the chapel of Gilbert the Bad (246). The secrets hidden behind shapes, scents and colours (252). The steeples of Martinville; first joyful experience of literary creation (254). Transition from joy to sadness (257). Does reality take shape in the memory alone? (260).

Awakenings (262; cf. 1).

SWANN IN LOVE

The Verdurins and their “little clan.” The “faithful” (265). Odette mentions Swann to the Verdurins (269). Swann and women (269). Swann’s first meeting with Odette: she is “not his type” (276). How he comes to fall in love with her (277). Dr Cottard (281). The sonata in F sharp (290). The Beauvais settee (292). The little phrase (294). The Vinteuil of the sonata and the Vinteuil of Combray (302). Mme Verdurin finds Swann charming at first (303). But his “powerful friendships” make a bad impression on her (307). The little seamstress; Swann agrees to meet Odette only after dinner (307). Vinteuil’s little phrase, “the national anthem of their love” (308). Tea with Odette; her chrysanthemums (311). Faces of today and portraits of the past: Odette and Botticelli’s Zipporah (314). Odette,