In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [272]
SWANN père. Stockbroker; close friend of M’s grandfather; his behaviour on the death of his wife (“often, but a little at a time”); his familiar gesture when faced with a perplexing problem: I 17–19. Recalled by M’s mother apropos of his granddaughter’s marriage: V 894–95, 917–18.
SWANN, Mme. See Odette.
SWANN, Gilberte. See Gilberte.
TAORMINA, Princess of. Hears Morel play at the Verdurins’: V 383.
TELEGRAPH-BOY. Protégé of a colleague of Brichot’s, then of M. de Charlus, who finds him a post in the colonies: V 442–43.
THÉODORE. Choirboy and grocer’s boy at Combray: I 76, 79. He and his sister show visitors the crypt of the church: 84, 146. His encyclopaedic knowledge of local affairs: 93. A scapegrace, but nevertheless helps Françoise to tend Aunt Léonie; the spirit of Saint-André-des-Champs: 212–13. Coachman to a friend of Charlus; his sexual misbehaviour; his sister is Mme Putbus’s maid: V 411. Writes to M to congratulate him on his Figaro article; his surname is Sanilon: 799; VI 91. Gilberte’s revelations about his escapades with the girls; becomes chemist at Méséglise: 5. His liaison with Legrandin: 15.
THEODOSIUS II. East European sovereign on a state visit to Paris: I 580, 588–89. His conversation with Norpois: II 9, 41. Norpois’s comments on his speech at the Elysée: 41–47. Charlus and Vaugoubert discuss his possible inversion: IV 88–89. Return visit to Paris with Queen Eudoxia: V 327–28.
THIRION, M. Second husband of Mme de Villeparisis: III 398–99.
TICHE (Monsieur). See Elstir.
TOUREUIL, Judge. Presumably the senior judge from Caen, elsewhere referred to as Poncin (q.v.): IV 442.
TOURS, Vicomtesse de (née Lamarzelle). At the Princesse d’Epinay’s; remarked by the Duc de Guermantes: III 633–34.
TRANIA. Princesse de. Visits Odette at the time of her liaison with the Duc de Guermantes: VI 92.
TRESMES, Mme Dorothée de. Cousin of the Duc de Guermantes: III 785. Calls on the Duke, with her sister Mme de Plassac, with news of Amanien d’Osmond; her walking-stick: 788–89. She and her sister bring news of Amanien’s death: IV 169.
TROMBERT, Mme. Regular visitor to Odette’s salon: II 109; M’s mother’s joke at her expense: 120; her hats: 245.
USHER (or “barker”) at the Princesse de Guermantes’s. His adventure with the Duc de Châtellerault: IV 46, 49–50.
VALCOURT, Mme Edith de. At the Verdurins’; excluded from Mme de Mortemart’s musical evening: V 359–60.
VALET, M’s father’s. See Victor.
VALET, Uncle Adolphe’s: I 103–4. Charlie Morel’s father; his veneration for Uncle Adolphe’s memory: III 357–59. Described to the Verdurins, at Charlie’s request, as “steward” in M’s family: IV 417–18, 425. Charlie has inherited his conviction of Uncle Adolphe’s grandeur: 621–22.
VALLENÈRES, M. Archivist, occasional secretary to Mme de Villeparisis: III 252, 256–58; helps with the management of her estates: 287–88. A strong Nationalist and anti-Dreyfusard: 294–95, 319, 334–35. The “daughter of the house”: 310. Explains the word “mentality” to M. de Guermantes: 319. His influence over Mme de Villeparisis: 335–36.
VARAMBON, Mme de. Lady-in-waiting to the Princesse de Parme. Her stupidity; insists that M is related to Admiral Jurien de La Graviere: III 681–83. Irritates the Princess: 747, 749–50. Mme de Guermantes’s anecdote about her: VI 93.
VATRY, Colonel the Baron de. Tenant of M’s Uncle Adolphe: IV 621.
VAUDÉMONT, Marquis Maurice de. One of two young noblemen who, with an actress and her lover, form an exclusive group at Balbec: II 352–55. Invites M to dinner: 727. M and Charlus discuss him and his friends in the context of sexual inversion; the actress’s lover an invert: V 411–12; VI 94.
(See Actress from the Odéon; Rich Young Man.)
VAUGOUBERT, Marquis de. Ambassador of France at the