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of his intelligence: 135. M’s passion for his work—“my favourite painter”: 162–64. Mme de Guermantes’s Elstirs: 162–64, 185. Norpois and The Bunch of Radishes: 299. M sees the Guermantes’ Elstirs at last: 573–78. Swann’s attitude to him recalled (“an oaf,” “balderdash”): 631. His work criticised by the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes: 685–88. His portrait of Oriane: 717. His work disliked by the Kaiser: 717, 721 (cf. IV 470–71). Admired by Albertine and Mme de Cambremer: IV 283–84. Compared with Ski: 367–68. His breach with the Verdurins: 458–65. His opinion of the church of Marcouville-l’Orgueilleuse: 561–62 (cf. V 217–18). M visits the scene of two of his landscapes: 581–82. His austere taste in women’s clothes: 617–18. His paintings of a little boy on the sands at Saint-Pierre-des-Ifs: 692–93. His passion for violets: V 178, 181. In contradiction with his own impressionism: 217 (cf. IV 562). Brichot describes his “buffooneries” in the old days at the Verdurins’: 266. The uniqueness of his art: seeing the universe through other eyes: 339, 343. His views on the furnishing of yachts, on old silver, on Fortuny gowns: 237–38, 496–97 (cf. II 653–54). Compared to Dostoievsky and Mme de Sé vigne: 510. Two of his pictures sold to the Luxembourg by Mme de Guermantes: 545. Significance of his portrait of Odette: had he been her lover?: 592–93. His intellectual charm: 668, 670. His paintings of naked girls in a wooded landscape remind M of Albertine and the laundry-girls: 710–11. His work becomes fashionable: 787–88. Mentioned in the Goncourt pastiche; Mme Verdurin claims to have taught him how to paint flowers (“he was always known simply as Monsieur Tiche”): VI 31. His grief at M. Verdurin’s death: 116–17.

ELSTIR, Mme. M meets her in the artist’s studio at Balbec; “My beautiful Gabrielle!”: II 586–88. Albertine admires her taste in clothes: 634. Denounced by Mme Verdurin as a “trollop”: IV 460–61. Embodies the kind of “heavy” “Venetian” beauty Elstir sought to capture in his painting: VI 32.

ENTRAGUES, Mile d’. Daughter of the Duc de Luxembourg, sought in marriage by Saint-Loup and by the Duc de Châtel-lerault: V 898.

EPINAY, Victurnienne, Princesse d’. Entertains the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes; admires Oriane’s witticisms (“Teaser Augustus”): III 633–40.

EPINOY, Princesse d’. Astonished at the brilliance of Odette’s salon: IV 195–96.

EPORGHEVILLE, Mile d’. Name wrongly thought by M to be that of the girl of good family recommended by Saint-Loup as a frequenter of brothels: V 760–65, 772–74. (See Orgeville, Mlle de l’; Gilberte.)

ESTHER. See Levy, Esther.

EUDOXIA, Queen. Wife of King Theodosius: V 327–28.

EUDOXIE, Grand Duchess. Friend of Princess Sherbatoff: IV 372–74.

EUGÈNE, M. Deputy of the Liberal Action party, an habitué of Jupien’s brothel: VI 33. Re-elected after the war: 237.

EULALIE. Retired domestic servant at Combray; confidante of Aunt Léonie: I 93–96. Visits Aunt Léonie with the Curé: 141–48. Her rivalry with Françoise: 148–51, 162–65 (cf. V 475–76, 486). Praised by Françoise after her death: III 24. M remembers a week spent in her room in early childhood: VI 34.

FAFFENHEIM-MUNSTERBURG-WEINIGEN, Prince von. German Prime Minister. Visits Mme de Villeparisis; poetry of his name belied by his persona; his efforts to persuade Norpois to get him elected to the Institut: III 345–56. Introduced to M by Norpois: 370. Praises Mme de Villeparisis’s painting: 372. At the Guermantes’ dinner-party; his vise-like German handclasp; his nickname “Prince Von”: 591. Speaks to M about Rachel, and invites him to come home with him: 697–99. His ironical praise of the Kaiser’s intelligence and taste in art: 721–22. His hatred of the English: 722–23. A Dreyfusard: IV 105.

FARCY, Mme de. American wife of the Comte de Farcy, an obscure relation of the Forchevilles; friend of Bloch: VI 35.

FATHER of the narrator. His interest in meteorology: I 12 (see also 127, 233; V 95–96). Annoyed by the “good-night kiss”: 15, and by his wife’s pleas on behalf of Swann’s wife and daughter: 29–30. His arbitrariness; his unexpected indulgence;