In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [311]
TARN. Correct way of pronouncing: V 35.
THIBERZY (f), near Combray. M’s cousins come over from Thiberzy for lunch on Sundays: I 88. Etymology: 146. Françoise goes there to fetch a midwife: 151.
TOURAINE. Mme Bontemps has a house there: V 482. M hopes that Albertine has gone there: 580. Saint-Loup sent down to find her: 587, 636–41. Albertine’s death: 642–44. M sends Aimé there to investigate: 706; his report on Albertine and the laundry-girl: 706–8.
TOURS. Minced pork (rillettes) of Tours: III 627. Horror of the name for M: V 729.
TRIESTE. Albertine has spent “the happiest years of my life” there with Mile Vinteuil’s friend: IV 701. It becomes, for M, no longer “a delightful place” but “an accursed city”: 707–11.
TROCADÉRO, Paris. M finds more style in it than in Gabriel’s palaces: II 83–84. The Trocadéro museum: 322–23. M persuades Albertine to go to a gala matinée there instead of calling on the Verdurins: V 134, 151. Lea due to appear there: 185. M sends Françoise to recall Albertine: 196–203. M and Albertine discuss its architecture: 217–18. The towers of the Trocadéro: VI 309.
TWICKENHAM, London. Residence of the exiled Comte de Paris. Swann invited there: I 23; II 2 (cf. VI 310).
VENICE. Remembered by M: I 9. M’s first idea of Venice gleaned from a reproduction of a Titian drawing with the lagoon in the background: 54. The “Staircase of the Giants” in the Doges’ Palace: 461. Potency of the name: 550. Plan for a spring holiday there; the Venice of M’s imagination: 554–59 (cf. II 161, 287–88). The Frari Titian and the Carpaccios of San Giorgio degli Schiavoni: II 14. Bloch’s pronunciation of the name in English (Ruskin’s Stones of Venice): 436. Mentioned in a quotation from Musset: 475. The Venice of Carpaccio and Veronese evoked by Elstir: 652–53. M’s dream of Venice: III 191–92 (cf. V 237). Blend of softness and brittleness of Venetian glass: 474. Perspectives in Venice: 498–99. Its poor quarters resemble those of Paris: 784. Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin detests the Grand Canal: IV 286–87. M’s persistent longing for Venice: V 27, 137, 220–22, 229. Albertine’s Fortuny gowns conjure up the Venice of the Doges: 497–98, and seem to be the “tempting phantoms” of the invisible Venice M has dreamed of for so long: 531, 538. Evocation of Venice in the spring: 555–59. M visits Venice with his mother: 844–88, impressions of the city: 844–50; M’s solitary excursions; Venetian women: 848–50, 879–84; its social life:852–53; the baptistery of St Mark’s: 877–79; Carpaccio: 876–77. Evening in Venice: 881–82. O sole mio; the vision crumbles: 883–87. Mme Verdurin visits Venice during the war: VI 311. M’s unsatisfactory “snapshots” of Venice: 253–56. The uneven paving-stones; resuscitation of his real memory of Venice: 257, 260–61, 264, 270.
VERSAILLES. Swann’s liking for it; Odette finds it boring: I 350. M crosses the Bois de Boulogne on his way to Trianon: 598; its chestnut-trees and lilacs: 602. Rachel takes a little house in the neighbourhood: III 160. The view from the terrace of the palace: 527. The Princess de Guermantes’s garden, with its Hubert Robert fountain, is “Versailles in Paris”: 801; IV 75. Doncières has a spurious look of Versailles: 681. Albertine visits Versailles with the chauffeur: V 168–74. M takes Albertine there: 545–47. Nude statues of goddesses among its groves and fountains: 711–12.
VICHY. Bloch thinks of taking a cure there: III 296. Mme Cottard declines to go there on the grounds that “it’s too stuffy”: IV 495. Albertine once knew a woman of ill repute there: 677–78. Albertine on the subject of Vichy water: V 166.
VIEUXVICQ (f), near Combray. Relationship of its steeple to the twin steeples of Martinville: I 254–56.
VITRÉ. One of the stops on the 1.22 train: I 548–49. What its name evokes: 553.
VIVONNE (f). River near Combray. Its water-lilies recalled with the rest of Combray and its surroundings by the taste of the madeleine dipped in tea: I 64. The apse of Saint-Hilaire