In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [246]
CRÉCY, Mme de. See Odette.
CRIQUETOT, M. de. “How goes it?”: IV 698.
CRIQUETOT, Comtesse de. Cousin of the Cambremers; M receives notice of her death at Balbec: IV 251.
CURÉ of Combray. His asparagus: I 74. His brother a tax-collector at Châteaudun: 78. His visits to Aunt Léonie; his knowledge of etymology: 94, 142–47, 165. “Touches the Princesse des Laumes for 100 francs a year: 485. Transferred to Criquetot for a time; his pamphlet on the place-names of the Balbec district: IV 282. Brichot’s criticisms of this work: 387–93, 434–35, 534–36. Knew what was “right and proper”: V 9–10.
DAIRYMAID who brings M a letter at the Grand Hotel, Balbec: II 400.
DAIRYMAID. “Startling towhead” glimpsed by M at the dairy: V 178–79. Brought in by Françoise to run an errand: 181–85, 189–90.
DALTIER, Emilie. Pretty girl—“a good golfer”—known to Albertine: V 551.
DANCER, back-stage in the theatre, admired by Rachel: III 235–41.
DECHAMBRE. Pianist patronised by Mme Verdurin. Brichot announces his death; discussion about his age: IV 396–97. Effect of his death on the Verdurins: 399–407, 445–46. M. Verdurin speaks of him to Charlus: 463. (See Pianist (young) patronised by the Verdurins.)
DEL AGE, Suzanne. Mistakenly believed by Albertine and Mme Bontemps to have been a childhood friend of M’s: III 503–5.
DELTOUR, General. Secretary to the Presidency of the Republic. Approached by Charlus in connexion with Morel’s decoration: V 371–72.
DIEULAFOY, Professor. See Index of Persons.
DRAWING-MASTER (of M’s grandmother), who never saw his mistress without a hat: II 598–99.
DUCRET. One of Charlus’s valets: III 758.
DURAS, Duc de. Mentioned by the Duc de Guermantes in connexion with Saint-Loup’s election to the Jockey Club: III 322. Marries the widowed Mme Verdurin; dies two years later: VI 30.
DURAS, Duchesse de. At the Verdurins’ musical soirée; praised by Charlus: V 366–70; resented by Mme Verdurin: 416, 420–21.
DURAS, Duchesse de. See Verdurin, Mme.
DUROC, Major. Lecturer on military history admired by Saint-Loup: III 97–98, 135–38; his Dreyfusism: 139–40.
E———, Professor. Distinguished doctor whom M persuades to examine his grandmother after her stroke; his bad grace and his pessimistic (and accurate) verdict: III 426–27, 430–32. M meets him again at the Princesse de Guermantes’s soirée: IV 54–57.
EGREMONT, Vicomtesse d’. Assumes the role of parlour-maid chez the Princesse d’Epinay: III 634.
ELSTIR. Painter, habitué of the Verdurin salon, where he is known as “Master Biche”: I 266, 281. His love of matchmaking: 285. Invites Swann and Odette to visit his studio; his portrait of Cottard: 286. His painting too advanced for the Cottards: 300–1. Swann finds him pretentious and vulgar, but admires his intelligence: 351, 355. His flashy dissertation on a fellow-painter: 361–62 much admired by Forcheville: 365. His (perhaps deliberate) gaffe in front of Swann: 403–4. Reputed lover of Odette: 506 (cf. 602; V 592–93). Goes on a cruise with the Verdurins after an illness: 531–32. Appears in Swann’s dream: 538–40. His art compared to that of Mme de Sévigné: II 315. M and Saint-Loup meet him in the restaurant at Rive-belle—“the famous painter Elstir”: 553–57. M’s visit to his studio; his seascapes; visual “metaphors;” Balbec church; his friendship with Albertine; the portrait of “Miss Sacripant;” Mme Elstir, “my beautiful Gabrielle!;” his ideals as a painter: 564–89. Walks with M along the front; meets the “little band;” is revealed as “M. Biche”: 592–607. “We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves”: 605–6. His revelation to M of the poetry of “still lifes”: 613. Gives a party at which M meets Albertine: 613–16. His good taste in dress; his influence on Albertine: 634–35 (see also IV 617–18). Speaks of race-meetings, regattas, landscapes and seascapes, Venice, costume (Fortuny): 652–58. His influence on M’s way of seeing things, and on his attitude to Berma’s art: III 27, 39, 51, 59. Saint-Loup’s high opinion