In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [275]
“usherette”: 345. Allusion to her by Norpois: II 50. Allusion by Swann to her liaison with Norpois: 187. At the Grand Hotel, Balbec; her entourage; ridiculed by the barrister and his friends: 348–51. Pointed out to M’s grandmother; “the fiction of a mutual incognito”: 358–61. Their accidental meeting and renewed friendship; her kindness to M and his grandmother: 371–78. Introduces them to the Princesse de Luxembourg: 378–80. Her knowledge of the movements of M’s father: 381 (cf. III 244). Takes M and his grandmother for drives; her aristocratic erudition, “liberal” views, literary anecdotes, acquaintance with the great: 386–87. Introduces her great-nephew Saint-Loup: 424. Introduces her nephew Charlus: 455–56. A Guermantes!—transformed in M’s eyes: 456 (cf. 736–39; V 391–92). Tea with Charlus in her room at the hotel; critical of Mme de Sévigné: 462–66, 467–68 (cf. 375–76). Complains about diabolo: 695–96. Neighbour of M’s family in Paris: III 10, 35. M. de Norpois’s regular visits; he speaks of her in glowing terms to M’s father: 195–96. Her “School of Wit”: 197–98. Her intimacy with Norpois: 244–46, 295–98. Her “at home”: 244–385. Vicissitudes of her social situation; her salon; her Memoirs: 244–61. Her rivalry with the three Parcae: 260–70. Her flower painting: 252, 272, 286–88, 371–72. Her grande dame act with Bloch: 336. Receives Mme Swann: 341. Her relations with her nephew Charlus: 362–64. Alarmed by his interest in M: 384–85. Origin of the Villeparisis name explained by Charlus: 398–99. Gives a reception at which M arrives late; invites him to dinner: 507, 512–13. Influenced by the Guermantes family genie: 603–4, 615–16. Discussed by Oriane; the horrors of her dinner-table; her morals; known as “aunt Madeleine”: 691–94. Oriane ridicules the idea of her marrying Norpois: 725 (cf. 829–29). Praised by the Turkish Ambassadress: 740. Charlus calls on her at an unusual hour: IV 2–5. M talks to her on the little train, to the disgruntlement of Princess Sherbatoff: 604–5. Premature allusion to her death: V 391. Her true social situation: 391–92 (cf. III 244–52; II 456). In Venice with M. de Norpois in old age: 854–60 (cf. 947–50). Had been the ruin of Mme Sazerat’s father: 858–60 (cf. 806). Dies in isolation: VI 102, survived by Norpois: 133–34.
VINTEUIL. Musician, former piano-teacher to M’s grandmother’s sisters; living in retirement at Montjouvain, near Combray: I 32. His prudishness and modesty; his passion for his daughter: 155–57. Pain which she causes him: 206–9. Meets Swann: 209–10. His death; his compositions: 225–26. His daughter’s sacrilegious gesture: 226–30. His sonata played at the Verdurins’: 290–303. The “little phrase” becomes the “national anthem” of Swann’s love for Odette: 308–9, 335–36, 374–75. Swann hears the sonata again at Mme de Saint-Euverte’s, and it reminds him of his lost happiness: 489–500. Odette plays the little phrase to M; M’s reflections on the work, Swann’s comments on it: II 139–46. Vinteuil the pianist: III 54. His extraordinary prestige—“the greatest of contemporary composers”: IV 363–64. M mentions his name to Albertine: 701–2. M plays his sonata; reflections on artistic creation; Vinteuil and Wagner: V 204–9. Effect of his music on Mme Verdurin: 320–21. His septet played at the Verdurins’: 330–46. His work transcribed by his daughter’s friend: 347–53. Albertine plays his music on the pianola: 502–6. “Expressing the inexpressible”: 502–6, 513–14. The little phrase and Albertine: 755–56.
VINTEUIL, Mile. Daughter of the above. Her boyish appearance: I 157–58. Her bad reputation; causes her father unhappiness: 206–9. Scene of sadism with her friend at Montjouvain; profanes her father’s memory: 224–32. Gilberte’s disapproval of her: II 150. Shattering revelation of Albertine’s intimacy with her and her friend: IV 701–24. She and her friend expected at the Verdurins’ (in fact they fail to appear): V 295–98. M interrogates Mme Verdurin and Morel about her: 321. Her penitence and veneration for her father; her sadism merely a pretence of wickedness: 348–49. M interrogates Albertine, who