In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [310]
ROMANIA. Status of the Jews there: II 434 (cf. III 253). Ronsard known there as a nobleman rather than a poet: IV 409.
ROUSSAINVILLE-LE-PIN (f), near Combray. Its castle keep visible from the little closet smelling of orris-root: I 14. Françoise buys a turkey in Roussainville market: 97, where she goes every Saturday: 153, (cf. 164). Its etymology: 144. Roussainville woods: 211, 218–23. Its white gables carved in relief against the sky: 211. M has never been there: 214, though he longs to do so: 220, and yearns for a village girl: 219–23 (cf. II 317). Gilberte used to play with little boys in the castle keep: VI 305. Fought over during the war: 95.
RUSSIA. Status of the Jews there: II 434. The pogroms: III 139.
SAINT-ANDRÉ-DES-CHAMPS (f), near Combray. Its twin spires: I 205. M and his family shelter under the porch; its Gothic sculptures and their living models: 212–13, 216–17 (II 573; III 560–61). “An old church, monumental, rustic, and golden as a haystack”: 260. The ethos of Saint-André-des-Champs, as illustrated by Françoise: III 193–94, 502 (cf. V 774–75); by Albertine: 502, 506 (cf. V 815); by Andrée: V 815; by Saint-Loup: VI 306; by the butler: 220; by Franchise’s cousins, the Larivières: 224–26.
SAINT-CLOUD. Open-air restaurants there patronised by the Verdurins: I 381–84. M’s mother moves to a house there during his absence at Balbec: II 307, 310. M goes there with Albertine: III 533. He advises her to go there rather than to the Buttes-Chaumont: V 16. Seen from the Bois de Boulogne: 227. Visited by the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes: 782–83.
SAINT-FRICHOUX (f), near Balbec. M sends the lift-boy to find Albertine there: IV 256. Last station before Doncières: 348. Etymology: 449.
SAINT-JEAN-DE-LA-HAISE (f). Isolated church in the neighbourhood of Balbec, painted by Albertine: IV 534–39. Buried in foliage: 558–59. “All pinnacles;” its stone angels: 560.
SAINT-MARS-LE-VÊTU (f), near Balbec. Goal of some of M’s excursions with Mme de Villeparisis: II 387. Charlus and Morel have lunch in a restaurant there: IV 551–52. Albertine curious as to its etymology: 562 (cf. V 700). Its piscine steeples: 562. Remembered by M: V 647, 700, 730.
SAINT-MARS-LE-VIEUX (f). Station on the little local railway: II 326; IV 393. M drives there: 538, 558.
SAINT-MARTIN-DU-CHÊHNE (f). Charlus takes a house near there: IV 449. Brichot gives the etymology of the name: 451. Charlus takes the train there: 599.
SAINT-PIERRE-DES-IFS (f). One of the stations on the little local railway. Glorious girl with a cigarette gets into the train there: IV 381. Charlus takes a house near there: 449; the name associated with him: 692–93.
SICILY. Charlus’s ancestors Princes of Sicily: II 448. The Guermantes plan to go there: III 813. Prince Foggi has an estate there: V 862. (See also Agrigento.)
SIENA. “Seductive charms” of: II 206. Balbec “as beautiful as Siena” (Swann): 324. M has not yet been there: IV 659.
SOGNE, La (f), near Balbec. Albertine goes to the races there: II 623. M sends the lift-boy to find Albertine there: IV 256. Stop on the little railway; Brichot gives the etymology of the name: 397. The Cambremers’ station: 512.
SPAIN. Norpois plans to take M’s father there: II 48 (cf. 304, 381; III 244). Spain “all the rage” (Cottard): 96.
SUSA, capital of ancient Elam (now part of W. Iran) and residence of Darius and later Kings of Persia. Nissim Bernard like a figure from Susa restored by Mme Dieulafoy: II 483. Bloch’s appearance likewise evokes reflexions on monuments from Susa: III 254. The throne-room at Susa: IV 87.
TANGIER. Saint-Loup meets Mme de Stermaria there: III 475.
TANSONVILLE (f), the Swanns’ place near Combray. M remembers his stay there with Mme de Saint-Loup (Gilberte): I 6 (cf. VI 307 et sqq.). Description of Swann’s park; the white fence; the lilacs, the ornamental pond and the water plants; the hawthorns: 190–7, 201–4, 215, 218. Swann yearns after it in the spring in Paris: 325; II 288, 289. Remembered by Françoise: III 23. The Saint-Loups settle in