In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [273]
VAUGOUBERT, Mme de. Wife of the above. Her masculine air; her considerable intelligence: IV 61–63. Brings about her husband’s disgrace: V 327–28.
VÉLUDE, Vicomtesse de. Sister of the Comtesse de Montpeyroux (q.v.), nicknamed “Mignonne” on account of her stoutness: III 591–92.
VERDURIN, M. The “little clan”: I 265–68. His subordinate role vis-à-vis his wife: 269. M’s grandfather knew his family: 281. His laugh and his pipe: 290, 303, 372–73. His opinion of Swann and Odette: 321–22, 354–55. His hostility to Swann: 376–77. Organises a Mediterranean cruise for the “faithful”: 532. Despised by Octave, who is a relative of his—“an old fellow in a frock coat”: II 632–33 (cf. IV 365–66). At La Raspelière; his attitude towards the death of one of the “faithful”: IV 399–400, 403–7. Uses Sanierte as a whipping-boy: 405–6 (cf. 446, 449 et sqq., 511). His irony at Brichot’s expense: 408 (cf. 473–77). His enthusiasm for La Raspelière: 412–13. His ignorance of the hierarchy of social rank: 428 (cf. 462–64). Bullies Sanierte: 451–56, 459, 485, 506–7. His ineptitude with Charlus (“one of us”): 462–64. Pride in his intimacy with Cottard: 486–88. The evening of the concert organised by Charlus; further brutality to Sanierte: V 302–3 (see also 945–46). Abets his wife’s despotic behaviour towards the “faithful”: 304–5. Reaction to Princess Sherbatoff s death: 318–19. Takes Morel aside to warn him against Charlus: 414–15. His name is Gustave: 423 (cf. VI 96). His generosity to the sick and penurious Sanierte: 436–40. His contradictory nature: 439–40. Eulogised in the Goncourt Journal; art critic in his younger days and author of a book on Whistler: VI 97. Praises Morel’s satires: 112. Dies soon after Cottard; mourned by Elstir, who saw him as the man who had had “the truest vision” of his painting: 116–17.
VERDURIN, Mme. “Mistress” of the “little clan”: I 265–69. Reactions to music: 266, 290–91, 299–300. Dislocates her jaw from laughing so much: 266–67. Her new, less dangerous way of showing her hilarity: 289–90. Distressing effect on her of the discovery of Swann’s grand connexions: 307 (cf. 354, 366–69). Attitude to Swann and Odette: 321–22, 354. Gives a dinner-party attended by Swann, Odette, Forcheville, Brichot and others: 355–75. Her hostility to Swann: 376–77; breaks with him: 403–10. Excursions with Odette: 414–19. Her strange behaviour with Odette (Les Filles de marbre): 512–14. Mediterranean cruise with Odette and the “faithful”: 531–35. Her relations with Odette after her marriage to Swann; their rival salons; entertains the idea of “society” as her final objective: II 239–49. Instáis electricity in her new house: 249–50. M “makes a conquest” of her: 251. M unintentionally pursues her in the street: 399. Her latent bourgeois anti-semitism awakened by the Dreyfus Case [this is entirely inconsistent with what follows]: III 341. An extreme Dreyfusard and anti-clerical: 799. Successful development of her salon; the Russian Ballet: IV 193–94 (cf. V 311–15). The little clan an active centre of Dreyfusism: 194–95, 198–99 (cf. 383–86). Rents La Raspelière from the Cambremers: 206–7. Her “Wednesdays”: 344–47. Compels Brichot to break with his laundress: 361–62. Evolution of her salon towards Society; a Temple of Music: 362–66. Her recruits to the little clan—Ski (replacement for Elstir) and Princess Sherbatoff (the ideal member of the “faithful”): 367–79. Ambivalent attitude to the Cambremers; plays down her Dreyfusism: 383–86 (cf. V 312–13). Her attitude to the death of one of the faithful: 399–401, 403–6. Her