In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [274]
delight in La Raspelière: 411–13. Physical changes produced in her by years of listening to music: 413–14 (cf. V 304, 331). Hatred of family life; anecdote about M’s greatgrandfather: 418–19. The changes she has made at La Raspelière: 428–30. Impressed by Mme Molé, on whom she bestows a no-biliary particle: 454–55. Disparages Elstir and eulogises Ski: 458–62. Shows M Elstir’s flowers: 464–65. Disparages Brichot: 472–76 and Saniette: 476–77. Her new technique for showing her amusement: 481–82 (cf. I 289–90). Attempts to annex Charlus to the little clan; suppresses her outraged anti-clericalism: 484–85. Praises Cottard: 492. Her first skirmish with Charlus: 497–99. Her advances to M; disparages the Cambremers and Féterne; vilifies Swann: 499–50. Jeers at Saniette: 507, then coaxes him to return: 511. Her assiduity as a hostess; excursions with her guests; knows the neighbourhood better than the Cambremers: 539–40. Her Monday tea-parties: 542–44. Visited by M and Albertine: 544–48. Charlus becomes for her “the faith-fullest of the faithful;” her tolerance of his relations with Morel: 601–4. Deterioration of her relations with the Cambremers: 664–66. Compels Brichot to forswear his passion for Mme de Cambremer: 669–70. M goes to a musical party organised by Charlus at her new house in the Quai Conti; Brichot describes to him her former salon in the Rue Montalivet: V 260, 265–67. Infuriated by Charlus’s dictatorial attitude, determines to separate him from Morel: 303–11. Social development of her salon; influence of the Dreyfus Case; her genuine love of art; the Russian Ballet: 310–11 (cf. IV 193–94). Her indifference to the death of Princess Sherbatoff: 317–19. Takes rhino-gomerol to counteract the effects of Vinteuil’s music: 320–21. Rudeness of Charlus’s guests to her, apart from the Queen of Naples: 326–30, 353–65. How she listens to the music: 331, 334. Enraged by Charlus’s insolence: 364–71. Persuades Brichot to cooperate in her plan of revenge: 372–76. Her slanderous attack on Charlus convinces Morel: 414–25. Humiliated by the Queen of Naples: 430–33. Supports her husband’s generosity to Sanierte: 436–39. Wanted Albertine to meet her nephew Octave: 832–33. Her salon described in the Goncourt pastiche; Fromentin’s “Madeleine”: VI 98. One of the queens of war-time Paris: 47. Visits Venice during the war: 51. Thoroughly at home with the Faubourg Saint-Germain; no longer dreads “bores;” constant mention of GHQ: 55–57. Overtures to Odette: 59–61. Her telephonings, her receptions: 61–63. Her aversion to Charlus: 107–10. Tries to persuade the faithful not to join up: 115. Her life changed by the war; her croissants and the sinking of the Lusitania: 120–21. Her relations with Brichot; ridicules his articles: 145–51. After the war, and M. Verdurin’s death, marries first the Duc de Duras and then the Prince de Guermantes: 387–88. At her reception; her false teeth and monocle; still as indefatigable as ever: 433. Reaction to Rachel’s recital: 458.
VICTOR. Butler to M’s family (sometimes referred to as valet). Peppers his conversation with the latest witticisms: III 19. His cynical view of politicians: 26. Purloins writing-paper from M’s bedroom: 27 (cf. 437). A Dreyfusard: 402–3. Quarrels with Françoise: V 153. His mispronunciation of pissotière (Charlus’s yellow trousers): 249 (cf. VI 99). Teases Françoise by pretending to read unpleasant news in the newspaper: 630. His familiarity with the nicknames of sovereigns: VI 100. Terrifies Françoise during the war with tales of disasters and atrocities: 84–85, 219–26, 230–31.
VILLEBON, Mme de. A Courvoisier and stickler for social distinctions: III 604–7.
VILLEMANDOIS, Marquis de. Asks to be introduced to M at the Princesse de Guermantes’s reception, having totally forgotten their old feud: VI 101.
VILLEMUR, Mme de. Introduced to the painter Détaille at the Princesse de Guermantes’s: IV 47–48.
VILLEPARISIS, Marquise de, née Mlle de Bouillon, aunt of the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes. Visited by M’s grandmother, a friend from convent days: I 24–25 (cf. 144). Likened by Odette to an