In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [305]
DOUVILLE (f). Station on the little local railway: II 326, and the stop for Féterne and La Raspelière: IV 248–49, 361. Its etymology: 390–91. The village and its surroundings: 398–99; the toll-house: 401–2. Beauty spots round Douville: 539; the “view of Douville”: 544. Painters from Paris spend their holidays there: 589.
DRESDEN. Swann needs to go there for his study of Vermeer: I 502. Odette surrounded by Dresden pieces: II 262. Mme de Guermantes “a statuette in Dresden china”: III 10. The women at the Guermantes dinner party “like Dresden figures”: 599. Dresden china plates: IV 66 (cf. VI 294). The art gallery: 659; V 75.
ECORRES, Les (f). Farm-restaurant near Balbec: II 660. Françoise’s young footman born there: III 777. Remembered by M: V 646.
EGYPT. Odette’s projected trip there with Forcheville on Whitsun: I 506. Norpois was Controller of the Egyptian Public Debt: II 5. “Doubles” of the dead in ancient Egypt: III 39. Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition: 711, 715.
EPREVILLE (f). Watering-place near Balbec where Mme Bon-temps takes a villa: IV 244. M sends the lift-boy there to fetch Albertine: 256, 262, 267. Etymology: 534.
FERNEY, Hermitage of. Residence of Voltaire: IV 614.
FÉTERNE (f). The Cambremer estate near Balbec. The notary goes there on Sundays: II 362. Hired cabs wait at the Grand Hotel for the Féterne guests: 388. Its marvellous gardens; its position overlooking the sea: IV 223–26. Compared with La Raspelière: 282–83. The Dowager Mme de Cambremer talks of her little back garden and of her roses: 287–88. M invited there, but not the judge: 299–302. “Féterne is starvation corner” (Mme Verdurin): 505. A dinner-party at Féterne: 663–72.
FLORENCE. Poetry of the name; M conjures it up in his imagination (“a supernatural city”); abortive plan to visit it at Easter: I 549–59. Resurgence of M’s desire to go there: II 287. His memory of this desire makes it the paschal city: III 187, 195.
FLORIDA. Carquethuit reminds Elstir of certain aspects of Florida: II 592.
FONTAINEBLEAU. Albertine on the Fontainebleau golf club: III 485. The forest of Fontainebleau: 732. Doncières has a spurious look of Fontainebleau: IV 681. Water-grapes from Fontainebleau: V 163.
FROHSDORF. Austrian residence of the Comte de Chambord, pretender to the French throne: V 37.
GAETA, port in southern Italy. Its siege and capitulation in 1861 put an end to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: V 329, 364–65, 432–33.
GOURVILLE (f). Village near Balbec: IV 538; the plain of Gourville: 558; the château of Gourville: 664; etymology: 680.
GRAINCOURT-SAINT-VAST (f). First station after Doncières on the little local railway; Cottard catches the train there: IV 358, 366. Cottard and Ski nearly miss the train there: 369, 435.
GRATTEVAST (f). On the little local railway, in the opposite direction from Féterne: IV 534; M. de Crécy’s sister has a house there: 657.
GUERMANTES (f). Seat of the Guermantes family, not far from Combray. The ultimate goal of the “Guermantes way”—“a sort of abstract geographical term;” surrounded by river scenery (the Vivonne): I 188–89, 233–36. M and his family never reach it on their walks: 241–43. M’s longing to go there: 243, 250, 257–62. Permanent significance of the Guermantes way for him: 258–62. Swann reminded of Guermantes and its countryside on meeting the Princesse des Laumes: 483. Saint-Loup talks about the château: II 456–57. M imagines the château: III 7–10. Françoise talks about it: 20–22, 35–36. Mme de Guermantes stays on there late into the season: 67. “Shadowy, sun-splashed coolness” of the woods of Guermantes: 273. The Duchess’s lunch-parties: 276–79. She and Charlus had played there together as children: 518. Carnations