In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [254]
GREAT-UNCLE of the narrator. Pulls M’s curls: I 3.
GRIGRI. See Agrigente, Prince d’.
GROUCHY, M. de. Late for dinner with the Guermantes: III 594. Offers Mme de Guermantes some pheasants: 662.
GROUCHY, Mme de. Daughter of the Vicomtesse de Guermantes: III 594, 662.
GUASTALLA, Albert, Duc de. Son of the Princesse de Parme: III 581–82, 710; Charlus’s cousin: 773–74.
GUASTALLA, Duc de. Son of the Princesse d’Iéna: III 710–11. Visited on his sick-bed by Mme de Guermantes: 713–14. His title ridiculed by Charlus: 774.
GUERMANTES, The. Legrandin suffers from not knowing them: I 178–80. The Guermantes way: 188–89, 233–62. Mme de Gallardon’s obsession with them: 467–69. The “witty Guermantes set” as represented by the Princesse des Laumes: 475, 479–87. Odette adopts some of their verbal mannerisms through Swann: II 113–14, 129, who has imbibed their combination of taste and snobbishness: 116–20, 194. The magic of the name Guermantes: III 6–11. Françoise’s interest in them: 11–12, 19–22. Their position in the Faubourg Saint-Germain: 27–32. Their characteristic features: 99, 274–75 (see also 591). Their attitude to distinguished commoners: 276–79, 339. Charlus speaks of “these powerful Guermantes”: 388–89, 397. Their reliance on Dr Dieulafoy in grave cases: 459–60. Their house “forbidden territory” to M; his invitation to dinner: 512–17. Vulgar arrogance and ancient grandeur: 569, 572–73, 596. Their physical characteristics: 600–602. The family genie; the Guermantes and the Courvoisiers; the wit of the Guermantes: 602–20, 627–44, 652–56. Their earthiness, as exemplified by the Duchess: 677. M. de Bréauté follows the Guermantes style: 691. Poetry and reality; family history; cousins galore: 720–21, 726–32, 744–44, 750, 778–83, 785. The Guermantes style as exemplified by Swann: 793–99, and by Charlus: IV 2–4 (see also 596, 624–25, 628–29, 642–44, 666–67; V 273–74, 345, 353). Party-giving à la Guermantes: 64–65, 72–74, 82–84. M earns credit from the Guermantes for his discreet bow: 84–85. Mme de Saint-Euverte tries to emulate them: 93–97, 102–4, 113–15. People beginning to lose interest in them: 198–99. Cottard’s low estimate of them: 377–79. The noblest family in France, according to Charlus: 666 (see also V 56–57, 309–10). Discussed by the Cambremers: 673. Their contempt for the opinion of commoners: V 274. The Guermantes tone: 345. Attitude to Mme de Villeparisis: 391–92. Adopt a German style: 829 (cf. VI 42). Indifference to wealth: 867. Inherited characteristics—Saint-Loup, Charlus and the Duke: 934–36; VI 43. Gilberte adopts something of the Guermantes spirit: 88–89. Saint-Loup a true Guermantes: 231–32. The old magic of the name Guermantes revived for M: 240–41, 282–83, 286–87. A profound transformation: 389–91, 407–12. Their roots deeply embedded in M’s past life: 420–22. Their superstitious respect for old-fashioned protocol: 447. Oriane epitomises the decline of the Guermantes: 463–64, 499–500. Time and the Guermantes “way”: 502–7.
GUERMANTES, Basin, Duc de. (Prince des Laumes before inheriting the dukedom on the death of his father.) M’s grandmother finds him “common”: I 25. Consistently unfaithful to his wife: 481. Suspected by Swann of writing an anonymous letter: 506–10. Brother of M. de Charlus: II 449. Present owner of the Château de Guermantes: 456. His ducal habits; his appearance; his horses; his affability to M’s father: III 32–35 (cf. 300–1). At the Opéra: 62. Praised by Norpois: 196–97. Plays a joke on Mme de Villeparisis: 257–58, 281. His entry chez Mme de Villeparisis: 300–1; his looks, his wealth and vanity: 301 (see also 385); his weird vocabulary: 305 (cf. 317–23); acts as “feed” to his wife: 311–12, 321–23; deplores Saint-Loup’s Dreyfusism: 316–17. Calls on M’s family during his grandmother’s illness: 458–62. Rumour of a separation between him and his wife: 507, 513. Vulgar arrogance and ancient grandeur: 569. M dines at his house; his old-world courtesy: 570–73, 578–83, 593–98. A bad husband but a trusty friend in Oriane’s social activities: 620–21, 633–37, 646–47. Member