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de Guermantes at the Opéra: III 45–49, 61–64, 68–69, and Mme de Cambremer’s comparative dowdiness: 64. The Duchesse de Guermantes’s street clothes: 74, 189–90. Saint-Loup’s style in dress: 117–19. Mme de Guermantes’s blue pekin skirt and straw hat trimmed with cornflowers: 274. Mme de Marsantes’s white surah dress: 338. Françoise’s mourning dress: 456. Role of costume in love: 529. Low-necked dresses of the “flower-maidens”: 579–80. Swann’s elegance; his pearl-grey frock-coat, white gloves and flared topper: 793–94. The Duchess’s red satin dress, ostrich feather and tulle scarf: 800, and her black shoes: 818–19. Her Tiepolo evening cloak: IV 83, 161. Sartorial elegance of the Balbec liftboy: 257–58. The dowager Mme de Cambremer’s get-up: 277–78. Albertine’s motoring toque and veil: 536, 561–62 (cf. V 70). Albertine’s clothes, inspired by Elstir; her grey outfit with plaid sleeves: 617–18. Charlus on dress; the Princesse de Cadignan: 618–19. The Princesse de Guermantes’s eccentricity of dress; her Gainsborough hat: 730–31. Albertine’s delight in the accessories of costume: V 32, 74–76. Mme de Guermantes’s elegance; “the best-dressed woman in Paris;” her Fortuny gowns: 33–34. M discusses clothes with her: 39–40, 47–48, 75–76. Different attitudes towards clothes of rich and poor women: 75–76. Albertine’s black satin dress: 127–28. The dairymaid’s sweater: 184–85. Charlus’s interest in women’s clothes, and his views on Albertine’s: 291–94. Albertine and Fortuny; reminders of Venice: 497–500, 531, 538, 546, 555 (cf. 877). Paris fashions in war-time: VI 325. Young Mme de Saint-Euverte’s Empire dress: 493–94.

DREYFUS CASE. Its effect on Society: II 122–23 (cf. III 252–53; IV 107–8; V 312–14). Aimé persuaded of Dreyfus’s guilt: 527. Saint-Loup a Dreyfusard; the Case discussed at Doncières: III 134–40, 153. Mme Sazerat (“alone of her kind at Combray”) a Dreyfusard: 200 (cf. 392). M and his father take opposite sides: 200. Rachel’s view: 217. Mme de Villeparisis’s aloofness: 253 (cf. 319, 335). Bloch and Norpois discuss the Case: 313–16, 323–24. Views of the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes: 316–23; of Mme Swann 341 (cf. 357); of Mme Verdurin (“a latent bourgeois anti-semitism”—but cf. IV 194–95): 341; of Mme de Mareantes: 342; of Prince Von: 346 (cf. IV 105); of Charlus: 390–93; of the two butlers: 402–3. Reinach’s achievement; Dreyfusism and heredity; France divided from top to bottom: 403. Dreyfusism in a Paris café: 548–49. Mme de Guermantes’s ambivalence: 653 (cf. 704; V 45–46). Swann’s Dreyfusism: 792–800 (cf. IV 122, 132–33, 151–53). Saniette a Dreyfusard: 799. The Duc de Guermantes deplores Swann’s “treachery”: IV 104–8. Saint-Loup changes his tune: 132–33, 151–52. The Prince de Guermantes and his wife converted to Dreyfusism: 142–54 (cf. 731). The Duc de Guermantes converted (temporarily) to Dreyfusism by three Italian ladies: 188–90. Influence of the Case on the salons of Mme Verdurin (“the active centre” of Dreyfusism) and Mme Swann: 194–99 (cf. 384–85; V 312–14). Brichot’s anti-Dreyfusism: 384–85 (cf. III 799). M. de Cambremer’s anti-Dreyfusism: 496–97 (cf. V 312–13). The Duc de Guermantes, the Jockey Club and the Dreyfus Case: V 41–46. Complex influence of the Case on Society: 312–14; continuing social anti-semitism: 776 et sqq. The Dreyfus Case in retrospect (1916): VI 326; after the war: 391.

DRINK. See Alcohol.

ENGLISH, ENGLISHMEN. “Our friends across the Channel” (Odette): I 107. English visitors to Combray: 146. Affectation of British stiffness in Odette’s handwriting: 314. Odette as a child sold by her mother to a rich Englishman in Nice: 522. M’s ignorance of English: II 110, 161. Odette’s Anglomania: 125, 136, 148, 164; speaks to Gilberte in English: 215; her English accent: 230. Bloch’s mispronunciation of English: 436. English visitors “athirst for information” about Elstir: 554. “Positively British stiffness” of the Duchesse de Guermantes’s get-up at the Opéra: III 63. “In France we give to everything that is more or less British the one name that it happens not to bear in England” (smoking): 659 (cf. II 87