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M employs him to search for Albertine after her flight: V 584–96, 596–604, 608–10. Strange conversation with a Guermantes footman overheard by M: 633–35. Reports on his abortive mission: 635–41. Consulted by M about Mlle d’Eporcheville (de l’Orgeville): 762–65. His marriage to Gilberte: 889–91, 895–902, 911–12. Turns out to be “one of those”: 900. Unfaithful to Gilberte; Jupien’s revelations; his liaison with Morel: 922–25. Visit to Balbec with Gilberte; Aimé’s revelations; the development of his inversion; Rachel’s influence still visible; her resemblance to Morel; gives her an enormous income: 925–30. Bribes Odette with expensive presents to obtain her complicity: 930–31. M’s reflexions on the new Robert; when did it date from?: 931–36. At Tansonville; his relations with his wife; changes in his personality; his love for Charlie: VI 84. During the war, dines with M one evening while on leave: 64. Feigns cowardice but secretly does everything he can to be sent to the front; comparison with Bloch; his undemonstrative courage and patriotism: 67–81. His “delightful” letter from the front: 88–93. Visits M on leave from the front; discussion about aeroplanes at night; opinions on the war; compared with Charlus: 96–104. M sees him emerging from Jupien’s brothel: 175. The lost croix de guerre: 189, 219. Killed in action: 226. M’s grief; memories of him, linked to those of Albertine; effect of his death on Françoise and on Oriane; buried at Combray: 226–34. “If he had lived …”: 236–37. M talks to Gilberte about him at the Guermantes reception: 428–32.

SAINT-LOUP, Mlle de. Daughter of Robert and Gilberte. Introduced to M by her mother at the Guermantes reception; memories and reflexions she awakens in M; her beauty; her resemblance to her parents and grandparents: VI 85.

SANIETTE. Palaeographer; member of the Verdurins’ “little clan;” his shyness, simplicity and good nature: I 286–87. Forcheville’s brother-in-law: 355. Scolded by Mme Verdurin: 369. In an endeavour to amuse, makes up a story about the La Trémoïlles: 370–71. Attacked by Forcheville and driven from the house: 393. Dreyfusist, in spite of being a practising Catholic: III 799. His social awkwardness aggravated by his efforts to correct it: IV 366–67. Upset by Cottard’s behaviour in the little train: 371. The Verdurins’ whipping-boy: 405–6, 446, 449–57. His failed witticisms: 455–59. Unable to play whist: 485. Mme Verdurin’s views on him: 506–11. M’s analysis of his social deficiencies: 573–76. His pedantic phraseology: V 298–99, 302–3 (see also 945–46). His bankruptcy and his stroke; the Verdurins’ generosity to him; M attends his funeral some years later: 436–39. (cf. 945–46)

SANILON. Surname of Théodore (q.v.).

SANTOIS, Bobette. Proust’s original name for the violinist Charlie Morel: see II 741–43; V 922.

SAUMOY, Guy. Friend of the “little band” at Balbec, retrospectively evoked by M: V 821.

SAXONY, Prince of. Is he the blond young man who joins the Princesse de Guermantes in her box at the Opéra?: III 40–41, 61–62.

SAYLOR. Patronym of M. de Crécy (q.v.).

SAZERAT, Mme. Neighbour of M’s family at Combray: I 76. Her dog: 79. In church: 81. Eulalie’s belief that her name is Sazerin: 95–96. Comments on Odette’s make-up: 137. Her son: 244. Her mauve scarf: 246. Her attitude to servants: III 79. Her Dreyfusism separates her from M’s family: 199–201, 442. Meets Bloch père: 392–93. M’s mother’s opinion of her lunch-parties: V 11, 806. Her Wednesday voice; her restricted life, the result of her father’s indiscretions with a duchess: 806–7. M’s mother invites her to dinner in Venice: 853. Her emotion on hearing the name Villeparisis; reveals that Mme de Villeparisis was the duchess who ruined her father: 858–60. Death of her son: VI 86.

SERVING-GIRL seduced by M in an inn at Doncières: III 542.

SHERBATOFF, Princess. In the little train at Balbec; M’s mistake as to her identity: IV 347–48. A model member of the Verdurins’ “faithful;” impresses her fellow-members of the “little clan;” reality of her social position; her three friends: 369–80. M recognises her as the