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CHÂTELLERAULT, in the Vienne department. Mme Bontemps has a villa near there, where Albertine takes refuge after leaving M: V 587, 706.

CHATOU, near Versailles. The Verdurins organise an outing there to which Swann is not invited: I 403–10.

CHAUMONT. Town on the upper Loire to which the duc de Broglie retired; reminds M of the Buttes-Chaumont: V 731.

CHELSEA, London. Whistler “the Chelsea master”: II 526.

CHERRY ORCHARD (f). Farm-restaurant near Balbec where Nissim Bernard encounters the tomato-faced waiters: IV 342.

CHEVREUSE, Valley of. Albertine liked going there with Andrée: V 737.

COMBRAY (f). M’s memories of it: I 9–264. The house, the little garden, the visitor’s bell: 9–17. Evoked by the madeleine: 63–64. General description of the town: 65–66. “The daily but immemorial chronicles of Combray”: 70–79. The church: 80–91. History of the parish: 142–47. The Square; walks round Combray; streets and villas: 158–60, 186–87. The two “ways”: 188–90. The aesthetic standards of Combray: 196. The wind, “tutelary genius” of Combray: 204–5. The Combray of today and of yesterday; ruins of the castle: 233–36. The moral code of Combray: II 3–5. Nothing less like the social “world” than the society of Combray: 200. Sociological theories of Combray: 433. The rites of Combray: III 1. The name Guermantes evokes the air of Combray: 5–9. Combray evoked by Françoise: 13–14, 19–24. Sandstone steps of its houses: 101 (cf. 545). Sense of duty and code of manners Françoise has inherited from Combray: 436–37, 449–50. Referred to disdainfully by Françoise’s daughter as “the back of beyond”: 464 (cf. 194). M recalls arriving at Combray by night: 544. Mme de Guermantes’s eyes and voice remind M of Combray countryside: 677. Rue de Saintrailles: 728. The Cure’s magnum opus on the parish: IV 282, 387–88. The “Combray spirit”—the rule of caste: 579–80 (cf. V 867, 894); order and propriety: V 8–10. Françoise’s Combray “customary”: 648. Venice compared to Combray: 844–48, 874–75. Combray’s reaction to Gilberte’s marriage: 919–20. M’s disillusionment on revisiting the neighbourhood: VI 292. Occupied during the war: 88, 94–96; the church destroyed: 153–54. A memory of Combray the point of departure for M’s exploration of Time: 526–32.

COMMANDERIE, La (f). House near Balbec rented by Bloch’s father: IV 682; Charlus’s anti-semitic observations on the subject: 687–88.

COMPIÈGNE. The Verdurins take Odette there without Swann to watch the sunsets in the forest: I 415–17. The Marquis de Forestelle has a house in the neighbourhood: 417. Napoleon III’s residence: V 866 (cf. II 159–60).

COULIVILLE (f). Village near Balbec. Sacrilegious subject represented on the capitals of its old church: IV 652. Morel takes Albertine to a brothel there: V 811.

COUTANCES. One of the stops on the 1.22 train: I 548–49. What its name evokes: 553.

COWES, Isle of Wight. Albertine wants to go there for the regatta: II 655.

CREUNIERS, Les (f). Rocks near Balbec, reminiscent of a cathedral: II 656–57. Andrée takes M there: 684, 689.

CROIX D’HEULAND, La (f). Farm-restaurant near Balbec: II 660; IV 320.

DELFT. Home of Vermeer: I 279, 341. His View of Delft: III 718 (cf. V 244). Tulip-gardens in Delft: 784 (cf. V 881). The Master of Delft: IV 145.

DONCIÈRES (f). Garrison town not far from Balbec. Remembered by M: I 9. Saint-Loup on military service there: II 420, 478, 502, 528, 609–10, 663. Description: III 86. M visits Saint-Loup there: 86–183. First impressions; the barracks, the Captain’s house in the Place de la République: 91–92. First morning there; the view from Saint-Loup’s room; mist, frost and hot chocolate: 100–101. The Hôtel de Flandre: 102–5. Walks through the town: 116, 120–22; Doncières by night: 122–25. The hotel where Saint-Loup and his friends dine, the Faisan Doré: 124–27 (cf. IV 681–82); military comradeship: 131–54 passim. M’s memories of “mornings at Doncières”: 472–73, 534, and of evenings there (the inn, the panelled dining-room, the serving-girl): 542–43. M and Albertine meet Saint-Loup at Donci