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395–413. Rupture with Morel and the Verdurins; the Queen of Naples; his illness and (temporary) moral improvement: 423–36. Brichot’s affectionate remarks about him: 440–44. Recites poetry to Morel during a visit to M: 808–9. Adopts Jupien’s niece and gives her the title Mile d’Oloron: 893 (cf. 417). Approves her marriage to young Cambremer: 903–4, 915. Meets Legrandin: 903–6. Compared and contrasted with Saint-Loup during the war: VI 25. M meets him on the boulevards—“a tall, stout man with a purplish face” following two zouaves: 106–7. His social isolation; continued hostility of Mme Verdurin and Morel: 107–13. Acquires a taste for little boys: 116. Corresponds with soldiers at the front: 117. Germanophilia; unorthodox views about the war: 121–44, 151–65. Anxious for a reconciliation with Morel: 130–32, 164–65. Morel’s fear of him; the posthumous letter: 166–68. Likens war-time Paris to Pompeii; his admiration for British, French and in particular German soldiers: 169–73. Later the same evening M discovers him in Jupien’s brothel, chained to a bed being whipped by a soldier called Maurice: 181–86. Conversation with the “gigolos”: 195–201. The snobbery of the gutter: 203. A dilettante in the sphere of art: 205. The poetry beneath his madness: 215–18. Arrested at Morel’s instigation but soon released: 235. M meets him, greatly aged, on his way to the Princesse de Guermantes’s reception; his Lear-like appearance; his salute to Mme de Saint-Euverte; his dead friends: 244–49. Jupien describes him in his dotage: “just a big baby now”: 251–53. His resemblance to his mother: 445.

CHARMEL. Footman to M. de Charlus: III 766. Charlus proposes that Morel should adopt the name: IV 628.

CHÂTELLERAULT, Duc de. At Mme de Villeparisis’s: III 284, 287, 296; his rudeness to Bloch: 334. At Mme de Guermantes’s: 590–91; his ploy with the lovesick footman: 675–76. Known to Jupien: IV 16. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s: 45; his embarrassing encounter with the usher: 45–46, 49–50. Barely escaped being thrown out of the Jockey Club, according to Charlus: V 413. Asks for Gilberte’s hand in marriage: 897. His appearance in old age: VI 26.

CHÂTELLERAULT, Prince de. Friend of the Prince de Foix; his matrimonial ambitions: III 553–54.

CHAUFFEUR. Hired by M at Balbec: IV 536–38. Charlus also a customer of his: 550–51. Informs M of his recall to Paris: 580. His intimacy with Morel: 580 (cf. 550–51, 558). Conspires with Morel to oust the Verdurins’ coachman and take his job: 582–84. Lent to M by the Verdurins in Paris: V 12. Praises Morel to Jupien’s niece: 80. M’s doubts about his vigilance over Albertine; his account of the excursion to Versailles: 167–74. Albertine’s accomplice in the invented trip to Balbec: 448–50. Extravagantly tipped by M: 494.

CHAUSSEGROS, Marquise de. Her supposed acquaintance with M: III 682–83.

CHAUSSEPIERRE, M. de. Nephew of “old mother Chanlivault”: IV 98–99. Ousts M. de Guermantes from the presidency of the Jockey Club: V 41–43.

CHAUSSEPIERRE, Mme de. Oriane refuses to recognise her at the Princesse de Guermantes’s soirée: IV 98–99. Her modesty; her musical parties: V 41–43.

CHENOUVILLE, M. de. Referred to by the young Mme de Cambremer as “my uncle de Ch’nouville”: IV 294–95, 674.

CHEVREGNY, M. de. Relation of the Cambremers; travels on the little train; his provinciality and lack of taste: IV 662–63. Turned away by Mme de Cambremer when Charlus expected to dinner: 670–71. Invites M to lunch: 682.

CITRI, Marquise de. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s; her horror of high society and her all-embracing nihilism: IV 117–19.

COACHMEN. Mme Verdurin’s: see Howsler. Swann’s: see Rémi.

COIGNET. One of Charlus’s valets: III758.

CONDUCTOR (of a tram or a bus) with whom Charlus has a rendezvous: IV 157, 732–34 (see also 13–16).

COTTARD, Doctor. Member of the Verdurins’ “little clan”: I 265–67. His artificial smile, naïve thirst for knowledge, obsession with figures of speech; his puns and his literal-mindedness: 281–86, 288, 357–60, 370. Failure to understand either Vinteuil’s sonata or M. Biche’s painting: 300–1. His stupidity