In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [276]
VINTEUIL, Friend of Mile. Comes to live at Montjouvain; her bad reputation; Vinteuil regards her as “a superior woman,” with great musical gifts: I 206–8. Her part in the scene at Montjouvain: 226–32. Albertine reveals that she had been a mother or a sister to her: IV 701–3, 707–13, 722–23. Expected at the Verdurins’: V 295–98, 321. Her patient and dedicated labour transcribing Vinteuil’s works: 347–53. Albertine denies having been more or less brought up by her: 451–53. Andrée’s version of the story: 831–33.
VIRADOBETSKI. See Ski.
VIRELEF, Mme de. Invites the Guermantes to the Opéra with Gilberte: V 782.
VLADIMIR, Grand Duke. His delighted amusement at the inundation of Mme d’Arpajon: IV 76–78.
VON, Prince. See Faffenheim.
WAITERS at the “Cherry Orchard.” Twin brothers resembling tomatoes; Nissim Bernard’s relations with them: IV 342–43.
WAITERS in the hotel at Doncières; their breathless speed; the “reserve of cherubim and seraphim”: III 125–26.
WAITERS in the restaurant at Rivebelle; their gyrations round the “astral tables”: II 532–34; one of them fascinates Albertine: IV 563–65; two of them, transferred to the Grand Hotel, Balbec, whom M fails to recognise: 528.
WAITERS in Aimé’s restaurant in Paris, like superannuated actors: III 218, 222.
WAITERS in the restaurant in Venice: V 854.
WARWICK, Lady. English friend of Mme de Guermantes: V 48.
YOURBELETIEFF, Princess. Sponsor of the Ballets russes; appears at the theatre in the company of Mme Verdurin: IV 193; V 315.
WOMAN (“beautiful young”) with the flashing eyes who seems to recognise Albertine and strikes up a Gomorrhan relationship with Bloch’s cousin: IV 338–40.
WOMAN (young Austrian) who attracts M in Venice because of her resemblance to Albertine: V 879–81.
Index of Persons
ADAM, Adolphe, French composer (1803–56). Allusions to his operettas Le Chalet: III 673 and Le Postillon de Longjumeau: V 205.
ALENÇON, Duchesse d’, sister of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, and of Maria, Queen of Naples. Allusion to her accidental death (in a fire) in 1897: III 700. Referred to in connexion with the Queen of Naples’ visit to the Verdurin musical soirée: V 328, 414.
ALENÇON, Emilienne d’. Famous Belle Epoque courtesan: IV 661.
ALFONSO XIII, King of Spain. “Fonfonse” to M’s family’s butler: VI 103.
ALLEMANS, Armand du Lau, Marquis d’, “nobleman of Perigord” (1651–1726). His portrait by Saint-Simon: V 794–95 (cf. Lau, Marquis du, in the Index of Characters).
AMAURY (Ernest-Félix Socquet), 19th-century French actor who had his moment of celebrity: III 167.
AMÉLIE, daughter of the Comte de Paris, Queen of Portugal from 1889 to 1908. Referred to familiarly by Françoise: II 491.
AMPÈRE, André, French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836). Invoked by Swann in connexion with Vinteuil’s creative genius: I 499. His son Jean-Jacques, historian (1800–64): VI 104.
ANGÉLICO, Fra, Italian painter (c. 1387–1455): I 549.
ANNUNZIO, Gabriele d’, Italian writer (1863–1938). Admirer of the Duchesse de Guermantes: IV 89.
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA, neo-Pythagorean philosopher: VI 105.
ARBOUVILLE, Mme Césarine d’. Hostess, woman of letters, and friend of Sainte-Beuve: V 769–70.
ARISTOTLE, Greek philosopher: I 212; III 257, 285, 612.
ARLINCOURT, Vicomte d’, French historical novelist (1789–1856): IV 110.
ARNAULD, Antoine, Jansenist theologian (1612–94): V 918.
AROUET. See Voltaire.
ARVÈDE BARINE (Mme Charles Vincens), French writer (1840–1908). Saint-Loup reads a book of hers on a train, and mistakes the author’s sex and nationality: II 611.
ASSURBANIPAL, King of Assyria 668–626 BC: II 68.
AUBER, Esprit, French composer (1782–1871). References to his operettas, Les Diamants de la Couronne, Le Domino noir and Fra Diavolo: I 101; III 615, 673; VI 106.
AUDIFFRET-PASQUIER, Duc d’, French politician (1823–1905): 126.
AUGIER, Emile, French playwright (1820–89): II 485; III 277; Oriane de Guermantes ascribes