In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [256]
the family genie; her social style, studied unconventionality, wit, imitations: 599–634. “Teaser Augustus”: 637–40). Her perverseness of judgment: 642–46. Relations with her husband: 647: “Oriane’s latest”: 652–55. Relations with her husband’s mistresses: 657–61. Hypocritical cruelty to her servants (the lovesick footman): 661–63 (cf. 193, 202, 417, 578, 805–6). Conversation at dinner: 663–702; views on Wagner: 672; Victor Hugo: 676–77; Zola: 683–85; Elstir: 685–88 (cf. 711; V 887–88); Mme de Villeparisis: 691–94; Charlus: 695–96; Saint-Loup: 696–98. Refuses to intercede on Saint-Loup’s behalf with General de Monserfeuil: 701, 705. Views on botany: 707–9; on the Empire style: 709–15 (cf. I 480–81; VI 45 496); on Manet and Frans Hals: 716–21. Her “musical moments”: 748–49. Her red dress and her rubies admired by Swann; her views on the Prince and Princesse de Guermantes; her “card” for Mme Molé; Swann’s illness; the red shoes: 800–19. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s reception: IV 79–119; her party expression: 82–83, 91; snubs Mme de Chaussepierre: 98–99; her refusal to meet Swann’s wife and daughter: 108–9; intends to avoid Mme de Saint-Euverte’s garden-party: 111–16; her unexpected politeness to Mme de Gallardon: 161–66. In the carriage on the way home, indignantly refuses to introduce M to Mme Putbus: 166–68. Her gradual withdrawal from the social scene brings Mme Molé to the fore: 196–97. Her opinion of Mme de Montmorency: 201–3 (cf. III 780–81). M consults her about Albertine’s clothes; more attractive than in the days when M was in love with her; the purity of her speech; her anecdotes; her views on the Dreyfus Case: V 30–48. Gives M some syringa: 63–64. Her attitude to the Dreyfus Case in its social aspects: 312–13. Fails to turn up at the Verdurins’ musical soirée: 369. Her Fortuny dresses: 497–98 (see also 34–35). M calls on her and meets Gilberte, now Mile de Forcheville: 772–74. Her change of attitude towards Gilberte after Swann’s death: 777–83; invites her to lunch and talks to her about Swann: 783–85. Repeats some of her anecdotes, with variations: 788–90, 793–96. Becomes friendly with Mme de Cambremer: 907. Rumours of her suing for divorce in 1914: VI 46. Her unexpected grief at the death of Saint-Loup: 233–34. Her sympathy for the Russian imperial family after the Revolution: 234–35. Greets M at the Prince de Guermantes’s reception, as her “oldest friend”: 346, 349–50; dyes her hair: 359; her cheeks, “like nougat”: 363; her new position in society: 394–96; would have sworn that Bloch had been born in her world: 415; friendship with Rachel; antipathy to Gilberte: 444–49. Decay of her wit and social decline: 464–67. Speaks to M and Bloch hazily about the past; her husband and his mistresses: 467–68; Bréauté and Mme Varambon: 468–71; her red dress: 474. Claims to have discovered Rachel: 476 (cf. III 300–310). Her unhappiness with her husband, because of his liaison with Odette: 481–82, 492. Her legendary chastity called into question by Charlus: 492. Her lies and changeability: 494–95. Savage attack on Gilberte: 499–500.
GUERMANTES, Gilbert, Prince de. Cousin of the Duc de Guermantes: III 36. Violently anti-semitic, according to Oriane: 316. Described as “feudal” by the Duke: 321. His contempt for M. de Grouchy as husband for a Guermantes: 594. Allusion to his future marriage to Mme Verdurin: 594 (cf. VI 47). His antiquated ideas: 602. His grave and measured paces: 611. Mocked by his aunt, Mme de Villeparisis: 616. An “animated gravestone,” in Oriane’s words: 716–17. His obsession with rank and birth: 726–27, 782 (see also 802–3). Swann talks of his anti-semitism: 797 (cf. 791–92; IV 92). The soirée at his house; M introduced to him; his stiff and haughty greeting (but M detects a genuine simplicity beneath his reserve): IV 74–75. Leads Swann off to the far end of the garden, reputedly “to show him the door”: 75, 97–98, 101–2. Swann’s account of their conversation: how the Prince, and his wife, had become persuaded of Dreyfus’s innocence: 138–43, 146–52. Revealed as an invert: 525–26. Spends a night with Morel