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631. Complexity of her character; lies to M; quarrels with Gisèle: 636–40. In the Casino; her sympathetic disposition; her friendship with Albertine: 646–49. Her comments on Gisèle’s essay: 670–75. Her hands; the game of “ferret”: 680–81. M’s doubts as to her kindness: 687–88. M pretends to prefer her to Albertine; her jealousy: 692–94. Her mother and Albertine: 703–6. M finds her a neurotic, sickly intellectual like himself: 714. “A camellia in the night”: 717. Dances with Albertine in the Casino at Incarville: IV 263–66. Expresses abhorrence of Sapphic behaviour: 272–73. Her tender ways with Albertine: 274–75. M pretends to be in love with her: 308, 311–14. She and Albertine avoid each other: 326. M prefers her to Albertine: 699–700. Albertine’s chaperone in Paris: V 12, 15, 20–21. The syringa incident: 63–65. Intensification of her defects; denounces Octave; M’s suspicions of her: 69–74 (cf. 128, 943–44). Her voice on the telephone: 124–27. Albertine murmurs her name while asleep: 144. Her lies dovetail with Albertine’s: 233–34, 298, 448–49. Her secret life with Albertine: 523–28. M quarrels with Albertine over her: 534–36. M invites her to come and live with him after Albertine’s departure: 632–33, 643–44. M jealous of her: 717–18. Visits M after Albertine’s death; admits to her own Sapphic tastes but denies having had illicit relations with Albertine: 735–41. Her second visit: 805–28; confesses her relations with Albertine; new version of the syringa incident: 809–15; her defamatory remarks about Octave, whom she later marries: 816–18; her explanation of Albertine’s departure: 821–28. Third visit to M; further revelations about Albertine and a new explanation for the latter’s departure (a plan to marry Octave): 830–33, 838–39. During the war, now married to Octave, remains M’s friend: VI 5. Her friendship with Gilberte: 432–33.

ANDRÉE’S mother. Mentioned by Albertine at Balbec: II 632, 704. Her social position and attitude to Albertine: 703–6. Her hair: 717. Her “horses, carriages, pictures”: V 12.

ANTOINE, the Guermantes’ butler. Françoise’s opinion of him and his “Antoinesse”: III 21; his arrogant air: 27; his anti-Dreyfusism: 402–3.

ARCHIVIST, encountered chez Mme de Villeparisis: See Vallenères.

ARGENCOURT, Comte d’, later Marquis d’. Belgian Chargé d’Affaires in Paris. At Mme de Villeparisis’s reception: III 284–88, 300–301; speaks of Maeterlinck’s Seven Princesses: 308–10, 336–37; his anti-semitism: 316; his rudeness to Bloch: 329–33. Meets M and Charlus in the street; Charlus’s opinion of him: 395–97. “A terrible snob”: 613. At Mme Verdurins musical soirée; his changed attitude to Charlus: V 362–63. During the war, arrested and released: VI 6. After the war, at the Guermantes reception, has become an amiable old dotard: 338–44.

ARGENCOURT, Dowager Comtesse d’ (née Seineport), mother of the above. Bluestocking hostess: III 613.

ARPAJON, Vicomtesse or Comtesse d’. At the Guermantes dinner-party (one of the “flower maidens”): III 586–87. Mistress of the Duke: 656, 660. Conversation with M about the archives in her château: 669. Her opinion of Flaubert: 670–71, and of Victor Hugo: 673–76. Quotes Musset for Hugo: 680. Ridiculed by Mme de Guermantes: 680, 684. Addressed by the latter as “Phili”: 691. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s, declines to introduce M to the Prince: IV 67–70. Jealous of Mme Surgisle-Duc, who has succeeded her in the Duke’s affections: 70. Drenched by the Hubert Robert fountain: 77–78. Cultivates Odette: 199–201. Her brilliant tea-parties: 542. Doubts the existence of M. Verdurin: V 363. In her old age, seems at once unknown and familiar: VI 7. Her death discussed at the Guermantes reception: 422–25.

AUBERJON, Duchesse Gisèle d’. Summoned by Mme de Villeparisis to help with her theatricals: III 289.

AYEN, Duchesse Jane d’. Charlus deplores the conversation at her house: V 413.

BABAL. See Bréauté-Consalvi.

BALLEROY, Mme de. Great-aunt of a niece of Mme de Guermantes: V 250.

BASIN. See Guermantes, Basin, Duc de.

BARRISTER (see Blandais), president of the Cherbourg bar. Staying at the