In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [242]
CAMBREMER, Leonor de. Son of the above. Marries Jupien’s niece (Mlle d’Oloron): V 892–94. An invert: 900. Deserts the minor nobility for the intelligent bourgeoisie: 901. His resemblance to his uncle Legrandin: VI 24.
CAMILLE. Servant of the Swanns: II 114.
CAMUS. Grocer at Combray: I 76–77, 93; his packing cases: 114; his pink sugar biscuits: 196.
CANCAN. See Cambremer, Marquis de.
CAPRAROLA, Princesse de. Visits Mme Verdurin: IV 195. Visits Odette and mentions the Verdurins: 364–65.
CARTIER. Brother of Mme de Villefranche and intimate friend of the Duc de la Trémoïlle. His mot about Zola recounted by Bréauté, to the irritation of Mme de Guermantes: V 44–45. His later obscurity: 262.
CASHIERS. At the Rivebelle restaurant, “two horrible cashiers” like a pair of witches: II 533. At the Grand Hotel, Balbec, the cashier “enthroned beneath her palm”: IV 329. Hideous one in an unnamed hotel, regarded by the staff as a “fine-looking” woman: V 250.
CÉLESTE. See Albaret.
CÉLINE and FLORA. Sisters of M’s grandmother. Share her nobility of character but not her intelligence; their aesthetic interests; their ingenious circumlocution: I 20, 27–34. Swann’s present of wine: 28, 32–34, 45–46. Their provincial dogmatism; 135. Pupils of Vinteuil: 156. Disapproval of M’s artistic taste: 206. Their revenge for Legrandin’s insult: II 305. Refusal to leave Combray to see their dying sister: III 442, 468. M’s mother goes to visit one of them at Combray: IV 699, 711–12; V 7–8.
CHANLIVAULT, Mme de. Sister of “le vieux Chaussepierre,” lives in the Rue La Perouse: I 488–89. Aunt of M. de Chaussepierre, who later ousts M. de Guermantes from the Presidency of the Jockey Club: IV 98–99.
CHARLUS, Baron de (Palamède, nicknamed “Mémé”). At Combray; reputed lover of Mme Swann: I 45, 137. Seen by M at Tansonville: “a gentleman in a suit of linen ‘ducks’ … stared at me with eyes which seemed to be starting from his head”: 199–200. Friend of Swann: 272, 441. Go-between with Odette: 442, 449, 456. Chaperones her at Swann’s request: 458. Suspected by Swann of writing an anonymous letter: 506–7. Expected at Balbec: II 448. Saint-Loup’s account of him; his social position; his arrogance, his reputation for womanising: 449–52. Visual encounter with M outside the Casino: 452–53. Mme de Villeparisis introduces him: 455. Studied sobriety of his clothes: 454–55. A Guermantes: 456. His title explained: 457–58. His intelligence and sensibility, aesthetic taste, obsession with virility, attitude to the nobility: 458–61; delights M’s grandmother: 458, 467–70. Invites M to tea: 462. His strange behaviour and enigmatic stare: 463–66. His voice: 469. Comes to M’s bedroom and lends him a Bergotte novel: 471–72. Strange behaviour on the beach next day: 473–74. Bloch’s derisive remarks about him: 487–88. Comes to call on Aimé at the restaurant where M is lunching with Saint-Loup and Rachel: III 223. At Mme de Villeparisis’s; attaches himself to Odette; his relations with his aunt: 361–66. Invites M to accompany him after the party: 376. Mme de Villeparisis seems upset by this: 384. Strange conversation with M; his views on high politics, the Jews, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Mme de Villeparisis; his sudden departure in a cab: 386–402. Mme de Guermantes pronounces him “a trifle mad”: 520–21. His attitude to Bloch: 523–24 (cf. 389–92; IV 683–84; V 282–83). Through Saint-Loup, invites M to call on him: 564. “Teaser Augustus”: 636–40, 665. “Knows it all by heart”: 673. How he mourned his wife: 695–96. M’s visit to him after dining at the Guermantes’; his strange welcome, violent rage followed by affectionate melancholy: 757–72. Accompanies M home: 772–76. His meeting with Jupien; his true nature suddenly revealed: IV 1–20, 36–44. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s soirée; talks to the Duke of Sidonia: 52–54. His greetings to the guests: 65–66. Pretends to play whist: 70–71. Decline of his influence in society: 72–73. Refuses to introduce M to the Prince de Guermantes: 73, but talks to him about the gardens and the Hubert Robert fountain: 78–79. His conversation