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BOIS DE BOULOGNE, Paris. Verdurin dinner-parties in the Bois: I 373, 381–83, 403–4. Odette’s encounter with a woman on the Island in the Bois: 519–21. The Swanns live near it: 586, 590. What it represents for M; Mme Swann’s walks and drives there; the Allée des Acacias: 592–98. The Bois in autumn; the Allée des Acacias; “the Elysian Garden of Woman”: 598–606. Associated with Swann’s memory of Vinteuil’s “little phrase”: II 144–46. M. Bloch drives through it in a hired victoria: 481. M. invites Mme de Stermaria to dine with him on the Island in the Bois; visits it with Albertine: III 525–33. “Improper things” happen there at night: 709. M. de Charlus wants to admire the moonlight in the Bois: 771 (cf. IV 3). M goes for a walk there with Albertine and contemplates the girls: V 219–28. M walks there alone one Sunday in autumn; its charm and melancholy; “aflower” with girls: 754–59.

BONNET ABLE, in the Perche region. Norpois went shooting there with Prince Foggi: V 858.

BOURGES. The cathedral: II 321; its soaring steeple in a Book of Hours: V 790.

BRABANT. Its “old-gold, sonorous” name: I 10. The lords of Guermantes were Counts of Brabant: 143, 242, 246; II 456 (cf. III 711, 808, 811–12). Charlus claims to be Duke of Brabant: IV 464, 477.

BRITTANY. Evoked by Legrandin: I 183, 185 (cf. II 576–77). Towns of Brittany served by the 1.22 train: 548–49, 552–53. The Stermarias, an ancient Breton family: II 351, 357–58; M imagines a life of poetry and romance in Brittany with Mlle de Stermaria: 364–66. The Island in the Bois evokes for M the “marine and misty” atmosphere of Mlle de Stermaria’s Breton island: III 529, 546. Mme de Guermantes’s Breton anecdotes: V 38. The Breton postal system: 174.

BROU. Tombs of Philibert le Beau and Marguerite d’Autriche in its church: I 420.

BRUGES. Visited by Rachel every year on All Souls’ Day: III 162–65.

BUTTES-CHAUMONT, public park in Paris. Andrée proposes to take Albertine there since she has never been before: V 15; M advises against: 16. Mme Bontemps reveals that Albertine used to go there constantly: 524. M is painfully reminded of this: 732. Andrée admits to having frequently made love to Albertine in the Buttes-Chaumont: 823 (cf. 740).

CALIFORNIE (f), farm restaurant near Balbec: II 660.

CARQUETHUIT (f), a small port near Balbec. Subject of an Elstir picture: II 567–69, 576. Reminiscent of Florida, according to Elstir: 592.

CARQUEVILLE (f), mediaeval village with an ivy-covered church which M visits with Mme de Villeparisis: II 391, 401–2.

CHAMPS-ELYSÉES, Paris. “Melancholy neighbourhood” where Gilberte lives: I 201. Françoise takes M for daily walks there: 546, 559–60. M’s first meeting with Gilberte there: 560–62. The importance it assumes in his life; games with Gilberte: 562–81; II 80–89. The little pavilion and the “Marquise”: 87–89 (cf. III 419–22). Its bad reputation as regards children’s health: 91, 97–98. M sees Gilberte walking along the Avenue des Champs-Elysées with a young man: 272–73 (cf. VI 290). Dr du Boulbon advises M’s grandmother to go there for her health: III 411. M takes his grandmother there; her stroke: 419–24. M’s nostalgic memory of the streets in the neighbourhood of the Champs-Elysées: VI 291.

CHANTEPIE, Forest of (f), near Balbec. M. de Cambremer shoots there; etymology of the name: IV 434–39, 489. M and Albertine drive through it: 535 (cf. V 649, 659).

CHANTILLY. Residence of the Duc d’Aumale, where M. de Guermantes used to go and dine every week: III 803–4. The Poussins at Chantilly: IV 287.

CHARLUS (f). Little village in the heart of Burgundy: III 742. The Château de Charlus: 759.

CHARTRES. I he cathedral: I 54, 84; the Queens of Chartres: 135; “a positive jewel in stone” (Norpois): II 49, 321. Comparison with Balbec church: 49; Notre Dame de Chartres: III 7; IV 467–68; the windows of Chartres: V 218.

CHÂTEAUDUN, in the Eure-et-Loir department. The Cure’s brother a tax-collector there: I 78. Mme Goupil has a dress made there: 139. Comtesse G———not even in “the second-best