In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [261]
MANAGER of the Grand Hotel, Balbec. Receives M and his grandmother; his appearance and character, alien ancestry, malapropisms: II 327–32, 355–56, 376, 517, 609, 724–26. Welcomes M on his second visit to Balbec; more malapropisms: IV 204–5. Complains of his staff: 209–10. Brings M a message from Albertine 220–23. Displeased with Albertine and her friends: 237. Tells M of his grandmother’s “sincups”: 240–41. Carves the turkeys himself: 659–60. Interned as a “Boche” in 1914: VI 62.
MANCHESTER, Consuelo, Duchess of. Takes Oriane shopping in London; now dead: V 48.
MARIE-AYNARD. See Marsantes, Comtesse de.
MARIE-GILBERT or MARIE-HEDWIGE. See Guermantes, Princesse Marie de.
MARGUERITE. Françoise’s daughter. Lives near Combray: I 72. Moves to Paris; Françoise’s visits to her; her trendy slang and contempt for the country: III 194, 464. Recommends a “radical” cure for M’s grandmother: 451. Entertained by Françoise; more Parisian slang: IV 172–73. Her deplorable influence on Françoise’s vocabulary: V 199–200; VI 63.
“MARQUISE,” the. Keeper of the water-closets in the Champs-Elysées. Françoise regards her as “a proper lady;” her partiality towards M: II 88–89. Discusses her customers with the park-keeper; her exclusiveness; M’s grandmother compares her to the Guermantes and the Verdurins: III 420–23.
MARSANTES, Comte or Marquis de. Saint-Loup’s father; contrasted with Robert: II 426–27. Nissim Bernard claims to have been a friend of his: 484–86 (cf. III 374–75). Was President of the Jockey Club for 10 years: III 317. Killed in the war of 1870–71: IV 673.
MARSANTES, Comtesse de (Marie-Aynard). Widow of the above. Saint-Loup’s mother, and sister of Basin de Guermantes and Charlus. Her relations with Mme Swann and Lady Israels: II 124 (cf. 51: a possible allusion in Norpois’s conversation with M’s family: 735, and III 342). Niece of Mme de Villeparisis: 424. How she brought up her son: 425. Anti-Dreyfusist: III 217 (cf. 318–19, 321, 342, 798). Mater semita: Rachel’s anti-semitic etymology of the name Marsantes: 237 (cf. 321–22; V 902–3). At Mme de Villeparisis’s; her character and looks: 337–41 (cf. 560). Her joy at seeing Robert: 343–45, 365–66, and possessive love and concern for him: 375, 379–84. Her deference to M: 374, 384 (cf. 339). Hypocritical and mercenary (finding a rich wife for Robert): 559–60, 340 (cf. 617; IV 133; V 898–99). Old-fashioned purity of her vocabulary: 678 (cf. V 35). Furthers Odette’s social ascent: IV 197–99 (cf. V 778–79). Charlus’s resemblance to her: 416. Brings off the marriage of Robert and Gilberte: V 898–99. Condescends to dine with the Cottards and the Bontemps chez Gilberte: 908. Brings about a reconciliation between Robert and Gilberte: 923–94. Robert resembles her more and more: VI 64.
MAURICE. One of the “gigolos” in Jupien’s brothel. Flogs Charlus: VI 65. His resemblance to Morel: 185–86. His kindheartedness: 189–90. His virtuous principles disappoint Charlus: 197–99.
MéMé. Charlus’s nickname (Palamède).
MOLé, Comtesse. Leaves an envelope instead of a card on Mme de Guermantes: III 808, who replies in kind: 814. Envelops Charlus in her huge skirt; his professed admiration for her: IV 100, 123. Goes to the Swanns’: 102. In Odette’s box at the theatre: 197. Her exalted position in society: 197. Mme Verdurin’s interest in her: 454–55, 499–500 (cf. V 310–11). The object of slanderous newspaper articles by Morel inspired by Charlus (an allusion to her death that does not accord with subsequent references to her): V 288. The mystery of Charlus’s furious rancour against her: 310; he denounces her to Mme Verdurin: 310–11, 367–69. During the war, defends Charlus against Mme Verdurin: VI 66. Admires Brichot but disowns him: 148–49. M refuses an invitation to dine with her: 519