In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [302]
AMSTERDAM. Visited by M: III 718. Visited by Albertine; the gulls in Amsterdam: IV 289 (cf. V 518, 529, 580).
ANDEL YS, Les, town on the lower Seine. A house there contains one of Elstir’s finest landscapes: III 163.
BADEN-BADEN. Odette once led a gay life there: I 445.
BAGATELLE (f). Farm-restaurant near Balbec: II 660; IV 320.
BALBEC (f). Remembered by the narrator: I 9. Legrandin’s sister lives in the neighbourhood: 92. Described by Legrandin: 182–86. M’s room in the Grand Hotel: 545. M’s imagined Balbec; “the land of the Cimmerians;” its “Persian” church; the poetry of its name: 545–54. Norpois’s opinion of Balbec and its church: II 48–49. M goes there with his grandmother: 299–308. Old Balbec, Balbec-en-Terre; M’s disappointment with the church: 322–24. The “little train”: 325–26. Arrival at the Grand Hotel; the manager; the lift; M’s room: 327–34. Views of the sea: 342–44 (see also 387, 523–24; IV 247–48). Clientele of the hotel: 345–56. The countryside round Balbec; landscapes and seascapes: 389–92, 395–409. The Casino: 434–35, 486, 502; behaviour of the “little band” there: 631–32, 645. The sea-front: 502–4. The cliffs of Canapville: 557, 580. Gimcrack splendour of Balbec’s architecture: 564. Elstir’s studio and his Balbec seascapes: 564–72. His enthusiasm for the “Persian” church: 573–76 (cf. III 484). The Mayor, the dentist, and other personalities of Balbec identified by Albertine: 631–32. Farms in the neighbourhood; picnics on the cliffs: 660–62. End of the season at Balbec; M’s memories of his stay: 724–30. Balbec bay the “gulf of opal painted by Whistler”: III 27. M’s desire for Albertine confused with his desire for Balbec: 479–81, 483–84. M’s second visit: IV 204–724. The manager of the Grand Hotel and his malapropisms: 204–10, 220–21. Life at the hotel; the liftboy, the pages; a Racinian stage-set: 233–36 (cf. 327–28). Views of the sea: 247–49. The little train and its nicknames: 249. At the Casino Albertine stares at Bloch’s sister and cousin in the mirror: 272–74. Girls on the beach: 321–24. A scandal at the Grand Hotel: 326–27. Nissim Bernard and the fledgling waiter: 327–31. Gomorrhan behaviour there: 337–41. Etymology of the name Balbec: 456–58. Roads near Balbec and their associations for M: 558–60. Corrupting effect of the country round Balbec—“this too social valley”: 697–98. The two pictures of Balbec; Albertine’s sleep evokes nights of full moon on the bay: V 81–86. Albertine’s trip to Balbec with the chauffeur: 174 (cf. 449–50). Bathing establishment at the Grand Hotel: 663. M’s retrospective musings about the Albertine of Balbec and her possible Gomorrhan activities: 673–703 passim. Aimé’s report on his investigative mission to Balbec: 694–96. “My Hell was the whole region of Balbec”: 699. The Grand Hotel a stage-set for the different dramas of M’s life: 730–31. M visits Balbec with the Saint-Loups: 925–27. M’s memories of Balbec and the sea revived by a starched napkin: VI 288. (See also Rooms in Index of Themes)
BAYEUX. One of the stops on the 1.22 train: I 548–49. What its name evokes: 554. A stained glass window in its cathedral decorated with the arms of the Arrachepels: IV 282.
BAYREUTH. Odette’s proposed trip: I 427–28. The Prince of X lets his castle during the festival: III 736. Visitors to Bayreuth: IV 201, 290–91.
BE ARN. Correct way of pronouncing: V 35.
BEAUMONT (f). Hill near Balbec with a view of the sea through woods: IV 548–50 (cf. II 391).
BEAUVAIS. Mme Verdurin’s Beauvais tapestry settee: I 292. Its cathedral: 415; II 321; III 7. Captain de Borodino posted there: 172. Mme de Villeparisis’s Beauvais chairs: 251, 275, 366. Charlus’s Beauvais chairs: 770. A Beauvais armchair illustrating the Rape of Europa: IV 191.
BENODET. One of the stops on the 1.22 train: I 548–49. What its name evokes: 553.
BERLIN. The Wilhelmstrasse: II 44. The Spree: III 331. Prince Von’s wife a leading light in the most exclusive set in Berlin: 348.