and social inexperience: 304–7. Conversation with Forcheville: 371–74. Becomes “Professor Cottard”: II 1–3. His fame, prestige and diagnostic gifts: 4–5. His newly acquired air of glacial impassivity: 5. Called in to attend M; his prescriptions; “we realised that this imbecile was a great physician”: 95–97. Speaks favourably of M to Mme Swann: 102. Invited to dinner at the Swanns’: 128–30. Bergotte’s “mannikin in a bottle”: 172, 197–98. Called in to attend M’s grandmother: III 404–5; has “something of the greatness of a general” in deciding on the right course of treatment: 438. “The most unfaithful and most attentive of husbands”: 448. Meets M at Incarville; his remark about Albertine and Andrée dancing together: IV 262–64. His professional jealousy and his failure to cure a grand-duke: 265–66. Narrowly misses the little train: 361–63. His new self-assurance: 366–67. Has a passenger ejected from the “little clan’s” compartment: 371. The importance of the Verdurin Wednesdays in his life: 372, 377–80. Excited by the idea of meeting the Cambremers: 382–85. Introduces M to Princess Sherbatoff: 393–95. Loses his ticket: 396–98. Introduced to Charlus: 421, who momentarily misinterprets his winks: 430–34. Criticises M. de Cambremer’s clichés: 436. Questions M about his fits of breathlessness: 441. Discusses Charlus with Ski: 450–51. Plays a game of cards with Morel, interspersed with puns and witticisms: 485, 491–94, 507–9. Mme Verdurin sings his praises for the benefit of M. de Cambremer: 487–88, 492. Teases his wife when she dozes off, and discusses drugs with M. de Cambremer: 488–92. His hand-rubbing and shoulder-shaking: 508. Criticises Dr du Boulbon: 510–11. With Charlus in the little train—his confused attitude to the Baron: 593–94, 612–16. Invited by Charlus to be his second: 635, 641–44. Re fuses, on Mme Verdurin’s instructions, an invitation to dine at the Cambremers’: 665–67. His death referred to prematurely: V 321. Looks after Sanierte, and informs M of the Verdurins’ generosity to him: 436–39. Mentioned in the Goncourt pastiche: VI 27. At the Verdurins’ during the war, in a colonel’s uniform with a sky-blue sash: 115. Dies from overwork: 116.
COTTARD, Mme Léontine. Wife of the above. At the Verdurins’: I 265, 281, 286; her homely taste in painting and music: 300–1; the Japanese salad in Francillon: 362–66. Meets Swann in a bus; discusses painting with him; assures him of Odette’s affection: 532–36. Entertains her husband’s colleagues and pupils: II 4. Her visits to Odette: 109. Her modesty and good nature: 121. Her stately language: 235, 243–51. Her devotion to her husband: 237, 249–50. Calls on M’s family during his grandmother’s last illness, and offers to lend her a “waiting-woman”: III 448. Her effeminate nephew: IV 415. At La Raspelière: 434–36, 458–59; falls asleep after dinner: 488–92; small talk with M. de Cambremer: 495. With Charlus in the little train; her mistake about his religion: 594–98. Accused by her husband of being neurotic: 613–14. Charlus’s rudeness to her: 643–44. Invited by an unsuspecting guest of the Verdurins to the luxury brothel at Maine ville: 647–49.
COURGIVAUX, M. de. M takes him for his son at the Princesse de Guermantes’s reception: VI 28.
COURVOISIER, Vicomte Adalbert de. Nephew of Mme de Gal-lardon, “a young man with a pretty face and an impertinent air,” introduced to Charlus at the Prince de Guermantes’s soirée: IV 71. An invert but a good husband: VI 29. Frequents Jupien’s brothel: 194.
COURVOISIERS, The. Relations and rivals of the Guermantes clan; their social ethos compared and contrasted with the latter’s: III 604–19, 631–32, 639–43, 651–55.
COUSIN (female) by whom M is initiated into “the delights of love” on Aunt Léonie’s sofa: II 208–9.
COUSIN of M’s nicknamed “No flowers by request”: III 465.
COUSIN (of Bloch). See LEVY, Esther.
CRÉCY, Pierre de Verjus, Comte de. Impoverished nobleman with a taste for good food and wine, cigars and genealogy, befriended by M at Balbec: IV 657–61. His patronym is Saylor, hence the family motto Ne scats l’heure: 661. Invites himself