In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [238]
BERTHE. Friend of Albertine: V 738.
BIBI. Friend of the Prince de Foix, announces his engagement to Daisy d’Ambresac: III 553–54.
BICHE (“Master”). See Elstir.
BLANDAIS (see Barrister), M. Notary from Le Mans on holiday at Balbec: II 345–48, 362–63, 383, 463.
BLANDAIS, Mme. Wife of the above: II 348–49. Impressed by M. de Cambremer: 356. Annoys the president: 382–83. Not invited to the Cambremers’ at Féterne: 388, 462. M tells a funny story about her: III 132.
BLATIN, Mme. Apparent friend of Gilberte; reads the Journal des Débats in the Champs-Elysées: I 565–66. Her affectation: 576–77. M’s mother’s poor opinion of her: 587–88. Mme Swann dreads her visits: II 110. Resembles a portrait of Savonarola: 147. “Me nigger; you old cow!”: 149.
BLOCH, Albert. Schoolfriend of M’s. Recommends Bergotte to him; despises Racine and Musset, admires Leconte de Lisle: I 124. His neo-Homeric jargon: 124–25 (see also II 442–47, 478, 484–88; III 328; IV 319, 682). Antagonises M’s family: 107–10. His likeness, according to Swann, to Gentile Bellini’s portrait of Sultan Mahomet II: 115. Unwittingly helps M to gain access to the Swanns: II 102. Greets Mme Swann in the Bois; she mistakes his name: 159 (cf. 489). Alters M’s notions about women, and takes him to a brothel: 205–8, 396–97. His affectation of anti-semitism: 433 (cf. 445–46). His absurdity, his snobbery; his family; his ill breeding: 434–37, 442–48. M and Saint-Loup dine with him and his family: 474–89. His gaffe about Charlus: 488–89. Claims to have had carnal relations with Odette: 489. Sees Saint-Loup off at the station; his tactlessness: 609–11. Albertine’s antipathy to him: 627–29. His Dreyfusism: III 134 (see also 402–3). Dislike of Stendhal: 136. At Mme de Villeparisis’s reception, now a rising dramatist: 252–336. His exotic Jewishness: 253–55. Knocks over a glass of water: 289. His ambivalent remarks about Saint-Loup: 292–93 (cf. 306–7). His rudeness: 293–96. Introduced to Norpois: 296–98; discusses the Dreyfus Case with him: 313–16, 323–33. Snubbed by M. d’Argencourt and the Duc de Châtellerault: 333–34. Takes leave of Mme de Villeparisis, who feigns sleep: 335–36. His friendliness towards Saint-Loup, who invites him to dinner: 373 (cf. 546). Charlus’s interest in him: 389–91. Snubbed by Charlus on being introduced to him by M: 523–24. Regular meetings with his Jewish friends to discuss the Zola trial in the restaurant where M and Saint-Loup dine one foggy night: 547–49. Behaviour on being introduced to Mme Alphonse de Rothschild: 693. His petition on behalf of Colonel Picquart: IV 152–53. His fondness for authentic Greek spelling: 319. Pretends not to recognise his sister: 337–38. Offended by M’s reluctance to leave the little train to meet his father: 682–86. Charlus questions M about him: 686–92. Calls on M in Paris, without knowing that Albertine is in the house: V 1–2. Arranges a loan for Morel and thereby incurs his enmity: 62–63. Sends M a photograph of his cousin Esther Levy: 105–7, 140, 461. His taste in furniture: 229–30. Charlus wants to invite him to his house: 282–83. A poet “in my idle moments”: 285–86. Fails to recognise Albertine dressed as a man: 450. Visits M after Albertine’s departure and incurs his anger: 596–97. Ignores M’s Figaro article: 797–98. His noisy ostentation and pretentiousness in a Balbec restaurant: 925–26. During the war, chauvinistic before being passed fit for service, thereafter anti-militarist; “at once coward and braggart”: VI 12. Marries one of his daughters to a Catholic: 192. Bored by society novels: 277. After the war, M recognises him in spite of his having aged: 347–48. His cult of his dead father: 353–54. Has adopted the name Jacques du Rozier; his English chic; his physical transformation: 384–85. Questions M about society figures of the past: 385–88. His own position in society;