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the theatre; her appearance on the stage: 231–33; the ballet-dancer; Robert’s jealousy; the promised necklace: 235–40. Remarks about her at Mme de Villeparisis’s reception: 291–322 passim. Robert’s gloom and remorse about their quarrel; she refuses the necklace; her generosity; Robert’s ignorance of her infidelities: 376–83. Final breach: 475–77. Prince Von talks to M about her: 697. She and her friends make fun of Robert: IV 129. Robert’s dialect borrowed from her: 296. Her liaison with Octave: V 816, and her despair when he leaves her to marry Andrée: 817. Her continued influence over Robert: 924–26, 932–33; Her resemblance to Morel: 928–29, 934. Gilberte tries to look like her: 929–30; VI 77. After the war, becomes a famous actress and an intimate friend of the Duchesse de Guermantes; invited to recite poetry at the Princesse de Guermantes’s: 447–50. Berma’s low opinion of her: 450–53. Her recital and its reception: 456–59. Makes eyes at M, who fails to recognise her: 459–60. Her malicious remarks about Berma: 462–63. Oriane’s opinion of her: 475–77, 497. Her reception of Berma’s daughter and son-in-law: 477–80.

RAMPILLON, Mme de. At Mme de Saint-Euverte’s—“that appalling Rampillon woman,” says Oriane: I 487. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s—“old mother Rampillon” ridiculed by Oriane: IV 114–15.

RAPIN, M. Chemist at Combray: I 20, 85.

RÉMI. Swann’s coachman: I 308. His resemblance to Rizzo’s bust of the Doge Loredan: 315. Helps Swann in his nocturnal search for Odette: 324–27. Odette takes against him: 455–57. Suspected by Swann of writing an anonymous letter: 508–9.

RESTAURATEUR. Proprietor of restaurant in Paris where M dines with Saint-Loup; his rudeness and servility: III 549–51, 556–58, 561.

RICH YOUNG MAN. An invert, whose mistress “flushed out the game”: II 352–55; VI 78 (cf. V 396–97, 411–12).

(See Vaudémont, Marquis Maurice de.)

ROSEMONDE. Member of the little band at Balbec: II 641, 644, 651. Her “incessant japing;” her northern face and voice: 668. Games on the cliff: 669–70, 676, 684, 691. Her mother: 703. Her features and colouring—“a geranium growing by a sunlit sea”: 717. Her parents take Albertine “en pension” at Incarville: IV 244, 248. Her remark to M about his attitude towards Albertine: 276, 302–3. Albertine kisses her on the neck: 705 (cf. V 738).

ROUSSEAU, Mme. Her death at Combray: I 75–76.

SAINT-CANDÉ, M. de. At Mme de Saint-Euverte’s; his monocle: I 465.

SAINT-EUVERTE, Marquise de. Gives a musical soirée attended by Swann, the Princesse des Laumes and others: I 457–501. Gives a dinner-party attended by the Guermantes: III 804, 817, which is followed by the reception at the Princesse de Guermantes’s, to which she comes to recruit guests for her garden-party next day: IV 93. Changes in the composition of her salon: 93–97. Colonel de Froberville’s ambivalent attitude to her garden-party: 103–4. Oriane announces her intention not to go, much to Froberville’s delight: 112–15. Overhears Charlus’s scatological remarks about her; her craven reaction: 135–38. Mme de Surgis’s portrait in her house: 145. Mme d’Arpajon declines to introduce her to Odette: 200. Further Charlus insults: 729–30. During the war, her salon “a faded banner”: VI 79. After the war, greeted with obsequious respect by Charlus: 245–47. At the Guermantes reception: 424. Oriane denies ever having known her: 494.

SAINT-EUVERTE, Mme de. Wife of a great-nephew of the above, née La Rochefoucauld; M comes across her at the Guermantes reception listening to music in a Mme Récamier pose: VI 80.

SAINT-FERRÉOL, Mme de. Mme de Guermantes proposes to visit her; Saint-Loup pretends not to know who she is: III 345, 356. (Françoise claims that the lavatory attendant “marquise” in the Champs-Elysées belongs to the Saint-Ferréol family: II 88.)

SAINT-FIACRE, Vicomtesse de. At the Guermantes matinée; prematurely aged from drug addiction: VI 81.

SAINTINE. Once “the flower of the Guermantes set,” now déclassé through marriage: V 306–8.

SAINT-JOSEPH, General de. Saint-Loup hopes Mme de Guermantes will use her influence with him to get a transfer