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SAINT-LOUP-EN-BRAY, Marquis Robert de. Son of Aynard and Marie de Marsantes. Comes to Balbec on leave to visit his great-aunt Mme de Villeparisis: II 420. His dashing aristocratic elegance; his apparent coldness and arrogance, then his immediate friendship and regard for M; his intellectual tastes and advanced ideas: 420–33. His tact with Bloch: 434–37. He and M invited to dinner by Bloch: 446–47. Speaks to M of his uncle Charlus: 448–52, and of the Guermantes: 456–58 (cf. III 8–10). His fashionably slangy vocabulary: 451, 459. Regards genealogy and heraldry as “rather a joke”: 456–58. Prefers modern furniture: 460 (cf. III 755). Dinner with the Blochs: 474–87. His egalitarian-ism, contempt for high society, gift for friendship: 490–91. His liaison with Rachel; her influence on his character and behaviour; their quarrels: 492–500. Photographs M’s grandmother: 500–1. Dinners with M at Rivebelle: 529–31, 535–38, 542–44, 553–55. His departure from Balbec; writes to M: 608–14. Rumours of his engagement to Mile d’Ambresac: 634 (cf. III 37, 133–34). M visits him at Doncières: III 85–182. His welcome; his idiomatic turns of phrase; his contempt for the Prince de Borodino (cf. 167–71); his resemblance to his aunt Oriane: 99. His solicitude for M: 112–14. His popularity: 116–20. Conversation about Oriane; agrees to recommend M to her but refuses to give him her photograph: 127–31, 162–64. Dinners with his messmates; conversations on military strategy; his Dreyfusism: 139–54. His unhappiness because of Rachel: 156–62. His relations with the Prince de Borodino; the two aristocracies: 165–73. His strange salute: 180–81 (cf. 233–34). Brief visit to Paris; offers to introduce M to his cousin Mme de Poictiers instead of Oriane as being a more “liberar” representative of the aristocracy: 192–93. Invites M to lunch with Rachel: 201. His tender feelings for her and illusions about her: 205–16 (cf. 231–33). In the restaurant; his jealousy; quarrel and reconciliation: 215–28. In the theatre; another quarrel; he hits a journalist and an “impassioned loiterer”: 234–43. Remarks about him and his mistress at Mme de Villeparisis’s: 292–322 passim. Arrives chez Mme de Villeparisis: 343–45. Refuses to be introduced to Mme Swann: 357. Irritation with his mother: 364–66, 378–80. His friendship with Bloch: 373. His remorse about Rachel; the promised necklace: 377–78. His ignorance of Rachel’s life: 382–83. Writes M a letter of bitter reproach: 417 (cf. 475–76). Calls on M’s family during his grandmother’s illness: 460–61. Posted to Morocco; writes to M about Mme de Stermaria. Final breach with Rachel: 475–77. Calls on M in Paris and takes him out to dinner: 539–69; his tactless remark concerning M and Bloch: 546–47; borrows the Prince de Foix’s cloak for M; his nimble circum-ambulation of the restaurant; his physical grace and effortless good breeding—epitome of the best qualities of the aristocracy: 559–69. Oriane mocks his mannerisms of speech and refuses to speak to General de Monserfeuil or General de Saint-Joseph on his behalf: 696–701, 705–6. Elected to the Jockey Club in spite of his Dreyfusism: 798–800. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s; speaks to M about Charlus, recommends brothels and Mlle de l’Orgeville and Mme Putbus’s maid; no longer interested in literature: IV 123–30. No longer Dreyfusist: 133, 151. Recommends M to the Cambremers: 207. Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin adopts his vocabulary (borrowed from Rachel); alleged to have been Mme de Cambremer’s lover: 296–97. Meets M and Albertine at Doncières station; ignores Albertine’s flirtatious advances: 348 (cf. 682–85, 692). Albertine discusses him with M: 355–57. Rumour of his engagement to the Princesse de Guermantes’s niece: 443–44 (cf. 673; VI 83). M’s fear of his meeting Albertine at Balbec or chez the Verdurins; Saint-Loup has no wish to meet the latter: 571–72. His Dreyfusism discussed by the Cambremers: 673. Visits M on the little train; Albertine avoids him: 682–85, 692.