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CAMBREMER, Dowager Marquise Zélia de. At Mme de Saint-Euverte’s soirée; her social obscurity and her passion for music: I 466–67, 470–72. Declares that her daughter-in-law is an “angel”: 489. At Balbec, hit in the face by a diabolo ball: II 696. Ceases to attend Mme de Saint-Euverte’s parties: IV 94. Her social life in the neighbourhood of Balbec: 223–27. Sends M notice of her cousin’s death: 251–52. Calls at the Grand Hotel; her elaborate attire; her salivation; her worship of Chopin: 276–302. The lift-boy’s mispronunciation of her name: 276, 304. Her children: 424. Her relationship with her gardener: 429–30. Her letter to M; the rule of the three adjectives: 468–69 (see also 663). Her influence throughout her family: 663–64. “Queen of the Normandy coast”: 670–71. Her grandson takes after her: V 915. Lives to a very advanced age: VI 21.

CAMBREMER, Marquis de. Married to Legrandin’s sister: I 92, 174. Calls at the Grand Hotel, Balbec, to collect guests for his wife’s weekly “garden party”: II 355. Lunches with the barrister: 361–62. Nicknamed “Cancan”: IV 294. Invited to dinner by the Verdurins: 383–86. His appearance, his nose, his character; explanation of his nickname: 421–24. His two fables: 426–27, 439–41. Introduced to M: 428–29. His deference to Charlus: 430, 465–66, 469–70. Impressed by Brichot’s etymological expertise: 434–36, 439–40, 446. His interest, not to say delight, in M’s fits of breathlessness: 441–42, 570, 676. Criticises the Verdurins’ taste in furniture: 467. His admiration for Cottard: 487–88. Talks to him about drugs: 489–91. Explains a point in heraldry to Mme Verdurin: 492–93. His anti-Dreyfusism: 496–97 (cf. V 312–13). Fails to appreciate a Cottard pun: 508. Tips the Verdurin coachman: 511–12. His ignorance of his native countryside: 540. He and his wife quarrel with the Verdurins: 664–75. Tries to persuade M to remain at Balbec: 716–17. His opinion on the Dreyfus Case: V 312–13. Saint-Loup’s favourable opinion of him during the war: VI 22 (cf. III 644). M meets him at the Guermantes reception after the war, unrecognisably aged: 356.

CAMBREMER, Marquise Renée de. Wife of the above and sister of Legrandin. Lives near Balbec: I 92. Legrandin avoids giving M and his family a letter of introduction to her: 182–85. At Mme de Saint-Euverte’s soirée; a Wagnerian, despises Chopin: 472. The candle incident: 478. Admired by Froberville: 479. Her name discussed by Swann and the Princesse des Laumes: 485. Introduced to Froberville by Swann: 488–89. Swann follows her to Combray: 541–42. Said to have been “mad about” Swann: II 146–47. Aunts Céline and Flora refuse to mention her name: 305. Her weekly “garden party” at Féterne: 355. Lunches with the barrister at Balbec: 361–62. At the Opéra: III 64–68. Ridiculed by Mme de Guermantes: 271–72, 311–13. Recommended to M by Saint-Loup: IV 207. Her rudeness and arrogance: 224–25. Introduced to M; her social and intellectual snobbery; contempt for her mother-in-law; avant-garde tastes in art and music: 279–94. Her pronunciation of Chenouville: 294–95. Her relations with Robert: 296. Invited to La Raspelière by the Verdurins: 383–87, 421–514 passim. Her contempt for them; her “haughty and morose” demeanour; her pleasure at meeting Charlus; her irritating habits: 424–28. Criticises the Verdurins’ alterations at La Raspelière: 436–37, 466–68. Conversation with M; his reflexions on her intellect, her aesthetic tastes, her snobbery, her vocabulary: 437–45. Her enthusiasm for Debussy and Scarlatti: 480–81. Her affected good-bye to M; mispronounces “Saint-Loup;” her impertinent teasing: 512–14. Her social preoccupations; invitations to Morel and Cottard resented by Mme Verdurin: 664–66. Brichot in love with her; Mme Verdurin intervenes: 669–70. Dinner party for M and Mme Féré at which Charlus fails to appear: 670–72. Quarrel with the Verdurins: 672–75. Reaction to her son’s engagement to Jupien’s niece: V 892–94, 899–901. Becomes indifferent to the friendly overtures of the Duchesse de Guermantes: 907. Criticised by Saint-Loup: VI 23. At the Verdurin reception