In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [250]
FRANÇOISE’S cousins. See Larivières.
FRANÇOISE’S daughter. See Marguerite.
FRANÇOISE’S nephews. One of them tries to get exempted from military service during the war: VI 39 another killed at Berry-au-Bac: 225.
FRANÇOISE’S niece. “The butcheress”: III 193–194; IV 171–72.
FRANÇOISE’S son-in-law. See Julien.
FRANQUETOT, Vicomtesse de. Cousin of the dowager Marquis de Cambremer. At Mme de Saint-Euverte’s: I 466–78; IV 94.
FRÉCOURT Marquis de. Owner of a coach-house with red-tiled turret: III 785; IV 1.
FROBERVILLE, General de. At Mme de Saint-Euverte’s; his monocle: I 464–65. Conversation with the Princesse des Laumes; admires the young Mme de Cambremer: 478–83, who is introduced to him by Swann: 488–89. Exchanges ironical looks with Swann at the Elysée Palace: V 906.
FROBERVILLE, Colonel de. Nephew of the above. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s: IV 100–3; his social position; ingratitude and envy vis-à-vis Mme de Saint-Euverte: 103–4; hopes for the failure of her garden-party and is delighted to hear that Mme de Guermantes will not attend: 112–15. Described as “gaga” by the Duc de Guermantes: 189.
G———. Writer; visits Mme de Villeparisis; frequently invited to the Guermantes’: III 276.
GALLARDON, Marquise de, née Courvoisier. At Mme de Saint-Euverte’s; her obsession with the Guermantes family: I 467–69. Unrewarding exchange with her cousin the Princesse des Laumes; snide remarks about Swann’s Jewishness: 473–77. Her Courvoisier snobbery and conventionality: III 604–5, 652–53. Despised by Mme de Guermantes: 688. Introduces her nephew to Charlus, in spite of her doubts as to the latter’s morals: IV 71 (see also 408). Encounter with Oriane on the staircase at the Princesse de Guermantes’s: 161–62, 164–65.
GALLARDON, Dowager Duchesse de, mother-in-law of the Princesse de Gallardon. Her Courvoisier ignorance of literature: III 612
GALOPIN. Pastrycook at Combray: I 76; his dog: 79.
GARDENER at Combray. Aligns the garden paths too symmetrically for M’s grandmother: I 12, 87, 119. His views on war and revolution: 122–23.
GARDENER at La Raspelière. Groans beneath the Verdurins’ yoke; his mixed feelings about Mme de Cambremer: IV 429–30.
GAUCOURT, Mme de. Sister of M. de Cambremer. Suffers from fits of breathlessness: IV 441–42, 510, 512, 676, 694; VI 40.
GIBERGUE. Friend of Saint-Loup at Doncières: III 136–37.
GILBERT. See Guermantes, Gilbert, Prince de.
GILBERTE. Daughter of Swann and Odette. (Later Mlle de Forcheville, then, through her marriage to Robert, Marquise de Saint-Loup.) Remembered by the narrator (as Mme de Saint-Loup): I 6. Worshipped by her father; M’s mother speaks to him about her: 29–31. Bergotte “her greatest friend;” M’s reflections on learning this: 137–8, 192. M’s first sight of her, at Tansonville; her indelicate gesture; the name Gilberte: 197–200. M’s obsession with her: 202–5. In the Champs-Elysees, the little girl with reddish hair playing battledore and shuttlecock: 560. M’s love for her; games of prisoner’s base; the agate marble and Bergotte’s monograph on Racine; her indifference, her absences; waiting for a letter from her: 561–87. Before her parents’ marriage, Odette would blackmail Swann by refusing to let him see his daughter: II 51–52. Swann’s ambition to present her to the Duchesse de Guermantes: 57–58. Norpois’s opinion of her: 65–66. New Year’s Day; M writes her a letter which remains unanswered: 80–85. She returns to the Champs-Elysées: 85. Her parents “can’t stand” M: 85–86. Amorous wrestle behind the clump of laurels: 90–91. Writes to the convalescent M inviting him to tea; her signature: 98–101. Her tea-parties: 103–10, 114–16. Her kind-heartedness and apparent devotion to her father: 149–50. Her strange behaviour to him: 162–63. Her resemblance