In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [237]
BAVENO, Marquise de. Comments on Oriane’s “Teaser Augustus” pun: III638.
BEAUSERFEUIL, General de. Overhears Swann’s Jewish witticism at the Guermantes’ reception: IV 132. The Prince de Guermantes consults him about Dreyfus: 143, 146–47. (See Monserfeuil: it is clear that the two names apply interchangeably to the same general.)
BEAUSERGENT, Marquis de (Mme d’Argencourt’s brother). In Mme de Cambremer’s box at the Opéra: III 65–66. At the final Guermantes party, now an aged colonel: VI 8.
BEAUTREILLIS, General de. At the Guermantes dinner party: III 674. His anti-Dreyfusism: 681.
BELLOEUVRE, Gilbert de. Young golfer at Balbec, remembered by M: V 821.
BERGOTTE. Distinguished writer recommended to M by Bloch, who lends him one of his books: I 124. His style, and its effect on M: 129–34. Swann speaks of him; an admirer of Berma: 135. A great friend of Gilberte: 137–38, 192. His booklet on Racine presented to M by Gilberte: 572, 582–83. Quotations from this concerning Phèdre: II 18. Norpois’s unfavourable opinion of him—“a deliquescent mandarin”: 60–65 (cf. III 299). Luncheon party at the Swanns’; the man with the goatee beard and snail-shell nose and the gentle bard with the snowy locks: 164–83. His voice and style; “Bergottisms;” his family: 168–77. Vices of the man and morality of the writer: 178–83. Speaks of Berma and Racine: 185–85. His opinion of Norpois: 186–87. Favourably impressed by M; they leave together; his medical advice and malicious remarks about Cottard and the Swanns: 196–200. M’s parents change their opinion of him: 201–4, 209–13. Sought after by Mme Verdurin: 239. M receives a letter from him at Balbec: 400. Charlus lends M one of his books: 472. M. Bloch’s opinion of him: 477–83. Legrandin’s opinion of him—“gamy stuff for the jaded palates of refined voluptuaries”: III 203. Admired by the Duchesse de Guermantes: 283–84, 299. Dr du Boulbon speaks of him to M’s grandmother: 409, 415. His visits to M during his grandmother’s illness; his own illness, his increasing fame, his indifference to the new: 442–47. Reputed to have written a satirical one-act play about the Prince de Guermantes: IV 101–2, 138. Mme Swann’s salon crystallises round him: 194–97. Reported to be seriously ill: 503. M still reads him: V 65–66, 728–29. His death; “the little patch of yellow wall”: 238–46. His instinctive attraction towards inferior women: 281. Charlus visits him on behalf of Morel: 289–90. M gives Albertine one of his manuscripts: 483. His one-time belief in table-turning: 713. His reaction to the Figaro article in M’s dream: 799. His influence on Morel’s style: VI 9. M’s eventual disillusionment with his books: 286. The intricacy of his style now out of fashion: 295. The role he had played in M’s love for Gilberte: 443.
BERMA. Her rank as an actress: I 102. Admired by Bergotte: 135, 137. M’s desire to see her perform: 559, 572. Her performance in Phèdre: II 10–11; M’s disappointment: 20–29. Norpois’s opinion of her: 36–38. “What a great artist!”: 72. M buys a photograph of her; her face and her loves: 80–83. Bergotte’s opinion of her: 183–85. Swann’s view: 193. M sees her again in Phèdre; an interpretation “quickened by genius”: III 39, 49–67. Rachel’s patronising comments: 221–22. Françoise compared to her in histrionic virtuosity: IV 182. Gives a party in honour of her daughter and son-in-law; their selfishness and cruelty; failure of the party: VI 10. Rachel’s malicious remarks about her: 477. Her daughter and son-in-law beg Rachel to receive them: 478–79. Rachel’s cruel disclosure of this proves a mortal blow to her: 479–80.
BERNARD, Nissim. Rich great-uncle of Bloch. At dinner chez the Blochs at Balbec; the family butt; his lies: II 482–86; but he really did know M. de Marsantes: III 374–75. Grows mannered and precious with advancing age: 393. His relations with a young waiter at the Grand Hotel: IV 327–31, 337, and with the