In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [263]
MORIENVAL, Baronne de. At the Opéra, compared unfavourably to the Princesse and the Duchesse de Guermantes (“eccentric, pretentious and ill-bred”): III 46, 64. Her ignorance of La Fontaine: VI 68.
MORTEMART, Duchesse de. Conversation with Charlus at the Verdurins’: V 354–61.
MUSICIAN (eminent), friend of Ski’s, invited to La Raspelière; furthers Morel’s career and his relations with Charlus: IV 606–8.
NASSAU, Comte de. See Luxembourg, Grand Duke of.
NASSAU, Princesse de. Aged society courtesan; greets M at the Princesse de Guermantes’s reception: VI 69. (She and the Princesse d’Orvillers (q.v.) are clearly the same person.)
NIÈVRE, Princesse de. Cousin of Mme de Guermantes; has designs on Gilberte for her son: V 782.
NOÉMIE, Mile. Attendant in the “house of pleasure” at Maineville; arranges for Charlus and Jupien to spy on Morel: IV 652–55.
NORPOIS, Marquis de. Ex-Ambassador; his career and character: II 5–12. Dines with M’s family; his physical appearance, manner and voice; advice on M’s career and investments: 29–36. His opinion of Berma: 37–39. Appreciates Françoise’s cooking: 39–40. King Theodosius’s visit: 41–47. Opinions on Balbec and the Swanns: 48–53; on the Comte de Paris, Odette, Bergotte, M’s prose poem, Gilberte: 58–66. Reasons for his failure to inform the Swanns of M’s admiration for them: 70–71 (cf. III 367–69). Reactions to his visit of M’s parents: 75–76, and of Françoise: 76–77. His views (in the matter of art) compared with Bergotte’s; the latter’s opinion of him, and those of Swann and Odette: 185–88. Allusion to his liaison with Mme de Villeparisis: 187. Visits Spain with M’s father: 304 (cf. 48, 381–82). His social diplomacy: the art of “killing two birds with one stone”: 708–9. Likened by M to Mosca in La Chartreuse de Parme: III 136. M’s father’s discovery of his friendship with Mme de Villeparisis: 195–96. M’s father’s hopes of his support as a candidate for election to the Institut: 198–99. His relations with Mme de Villeparisis: 244–45, 294–98. At Mme de Villeparisis’s reception; introduced to Bloch; views on art: 296–99. Declines to support M’s father’s candidacy: 302–4. Discusses the Dreyfus Case with Bloch: 313–16, 323–33. His tortuous diplomatic manoeuvrings with Prince von Faffenheim: 345–55. Calls M “a hysterical little flatterer”: 367 (cf. 724–25). Attends M’s grandmother’s funeral: 468. Meets M in the street and gives him no sign of recognition: 510. In favour of an Anglo-French rapprochement: 722–24. Mme de Guermantes talks about him (and his liaison with Mme de Villeparisis) at dinner: 725–26 (see also III 828–29). Widower of a La Rochefoucauld: 727. Fails to introduce any of his Institut colleagues to Mme de Villeparisis: IV 620. His amnesia about his false prognostications: V 41. In Venice with Mme de Villeparisis: 854–66 (cf. 947–50). His war-time articles: VI 70 ridiculed by Charlus: 129–38, 156, 172.
NORPOIS, Baron and Baronne de. Nephew and niece of the Marquis: III 33–34.
NOTARY from Le Mans. See Blandais, M.
OCTAVE. Young toff at Balbec, consumptive, dissipated, gambling son of an industrialist: II 348, 356–57. Friend of Albertine and the little band; his golf-playing; “I’m a washout”: 625–27. Related to the Verdurins: 632–33. His views on Mme de Villeparisis and Mme de Cambremer: 695–97. Maligned by Andrée: V 71 (cf. 816). His liaison with Rachel: 816–17; marries Andrée: 817–18. His artistic genius: 818–21. Previously in love with Albertine: 830–33 (cf. 122—a vague allusion by Françoise also 817; VI 71). His friendliness towards M: 840–41. One of the stars of Mme Verdurin’s wartime salon: VI 72. His illness; a poor friend: 58–59.
OCTAVE, Madame. See Léonie, Aunt.
OCTAVE, Uncle. Husband of Aunt Léonie; already dead when M used to spend his holidays at Combray: I 66, 75, 141, 152.
ODETTE (Mme de Crécy, then Mme