In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [253]
or Mme Amédée). Evenings at Combray; her walks in the garden; her love of fresh air and of naturalness; her worries (M’s lack of will-power and delicate health, her husband’s brandy-drinking); her sweetness and humility: I 12–15, 16. Visits Mme de Villeparisis, a childhood friend of hers (cf. 144); finds the Jupiens charming and the Prince des Laumes “common”: 24–25. Admires Swann’s taste: 28. Her principles in the matter of upbringing: 48–49. Her ideas on literature; gives M the pastoral novels of George Sand: 52–53. Her choice of presents: 52–55. Her love for the steeple of Saint-Hilaire: 86–87. Her opinion of Legrandin: 92–93 (cf. 177). Begs M to go out of doors: 114–15. Displeased by Bloch: 127. Criticised by Françoise—“slightly batty”: 141. Her remark about Mile Vinteuil: I 157–58. Plan for her to accompany M to Balbec: 182–85. Concern for M’s health: II 12. Accompanies him to see Berma in Phèdre: 20, 27, 37–38. During M’s illness, her loving care; her anxiety about his taking alcohol, even as medicine: 93–95 (cf. 310–13). Reproaches M for not working: 211–12. Accompanies M to Balbec: 299, 304–5; her “beloved Sévigné”: 305, 308–15 (see also I 25; II 372, 375–76, 467–68; III 408–9, 423; IV 229–31; V 11, 892); her concern about M’s drinking: 311–12. Arrival at Balbec: 325–30. Her loving tenderness; the knocking on the wall: 334–37. Opens the dining-room window: 345. Meets Mme de Villeparisis, whom she avoids at first, then resumes her friendship with her: 358–61, 371–82. Excursions with Mme de Villeparisis: 386; sings her praises: 418. M tells her that he couldn’t live without her: 418–19. Introduced to Saint-Loup: 425, who makes a conquest of her: 428–30. Introduced to Charlus: 456, whom she finds delightful: 458–73. Photographed by Saint-Loup: 500–1. Her concern for M’s moral and physical welfare: 509, 516–17, 530. Reproaches M for not visiting Elstir: 559, 564. Her nature and M’s: 589. Presents Saint-Loup with a collection of Proudhon’s letters: 608. Moves to a flat in the Hôtel de Guermantes for the sake of her health: III 3. Her voice on the telephone: 173–80. Her changed appearance on M’s return from Doncières: 183–85. Refuses invitations from Mme de Villeparisis on the grounds of health: 197–98. Her attitude to the Dreyfus Case: 200. Her health deteriorates; Cottard called in; Dr du Boulbon’s visit: 403–18. Goes to the Champs-Elysées with M and has a stroke: 419–24. M takes her to see Professor E————: 427–31. Her last illness and death: 433–41, 452–58, 462–71. Professor E————seeks confirmation of her death: IV 54–57. Her resurrection in M’s memory on his second arrival at Balbec—“the intermittencies of the heart”: 210–16. M dreams of her: 216–20. Memories and meditations concerning her; the truth about the Saint-Loup photograph: 237–43, 246, 249–50. M’s mother talks to him about her; her literary purism: 318–19. Would have thought M. de Cambremer “very common”: 423. Her life in her daughter’s memory, like “a pure and innocent childhood”: 711–12. Their resemblance: 721–22, 724. Her influence on her daughter: V 8, 11–12; and on M: 95–96, 136–38. M wakes up thinking of her: 157–58. He has inherited from her a lack of self-importance: 387. Her death juxtaposed with Albertine’s; “a double murder”: 669–70, 676. Appears with Albertine in a dream: 726–28. Invoked by M’s mother in the train from Venice apropos of the marriages of Gilberte and Jupien’s niece: 892–94, 916–17.
GREAT-AUNT of the narrator. Cousin of M’s grandfather and mother of Aunt Léonie: I 66. Reads the “accompanying patter” of the magic lantern: 10. Teases M’s grandmother: 13–14. Underestimates Swann and misconstrues his social position: 18–23. A trifle “common”: 21. Her ideas on déclassement: 24–28. Finds Swann aged: 45. Her “indictment” of M’s grandmother: 54. Leaves her fortune to a niece from whom she had been estranged for years: 128. Slandered by Bloch: 129. Her ideas on Sunday observance: 139. Her concern for her invalid daughter: 166. Her straightforwardness: II 199–200.
GREAT-GRANDFATHER of the narrator. Referred to contemptuously by Mme Verdurin;