In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [317]
FAUBOURG SAINT-GERMAIN. Swann’s position in the aristocratic world of the Faubourg Saint-Germain: I 19, 269, 304–5. Noli me tangere of the Faubourg: 408. Psychology of the women of the Faubourg: 476. Odette’s detachment from the Faubourg: II 124–27 (cf. 294–96). The Faubourg Saint-Germain has no more to do with the mind of a Bergotte than “with the law of causality or the idea of God”: 179. Its barriers: 294–95. Nine-tenths of the men of the Faubourg appear to the middle classes as crapulous paupers: 384. Not lavish with tips: 389. Excess of politeness as a professional “bent”: 414. The Guermantes’ position in the Faubourg; M’s romantic notions about it; “the well-trodden doormat of its shore”: III 28–29. Its attitude to the Imperial nobility: 169 (cf. 641–42). Jews in the Faubourg: 252–54. Mme de Marsantes’s edifying influence on it: 337–38. Nicknames in the Faubourg: 591–92. Relations of the Princesse Mathilde with the Faubourg: 642–43. Party ritual in the Faubourg; “the prime and perfect quality of the social pabulum”: 704–5. Its silliness, aggravated by malice: 737–38. Its mysterious life: 745. Walking-sticks common in a certain section of the Faubourg: 789. Odette taken up by certain elements of the Faubourg: IV 194–202; also Gilberte when she suddenly becomes rich through a legacy: 199 (cf. V 898–99, 909–10). Mme de Montmorency’s old house in the Faubourg: 202–3. Mme Verdurin and the Faubourg: 363–66 (cf. V 312–14). Charlus’s morals unknown to the Faubourg: 408–9. How the Faubourg speaks to any bourgeois about other bourgeois: V 784. During the war, Mme Verdurin and Mme Bontemps firmly installed in the Faubourg: VI 328. Brichot’s success with the Faubourg: 146–51. Mme Verdurin becomes Duchesse de Duras and then Princesse de Guermantes and occupies a “lofty position” in the Faubourg: 387–88. Its decline—“like some senile dowager now”: 390.
FLOWERS. Lime-blossom from the trees in the Avenue de la Gare at Combray used for Aunt Léonie’s infusions: I 64, 69–70. Mme Loiseau’s fuchsias: 85. Legrandin’s evocation of spring flowers: 176–77. Lilacs at Tansonville: 190–91, 262. M falls in love with hawthorn in Combray church: 155–56, 158 (cf. II 685; IV 739–40). Hawthorn blossom at Tansonville: 193–97. M bids farewell to his hawthorns: 204. Flowers in Swann’s park: 190–92, 197. Poppies and cornflowers in the fields beyond Tansonville: 194–95. Spring flowers by the Vivonne; “blue flame of a violet”: 235. Buttercups: 236–37. Water-lilies: 237–40. Odette gives Swann a chrysanthemum picked from her garden: 310. Chrysanthemums in Odette’s house: 311; chrysanthemums, and cattleyas, her favourite flowers; “a fleshy cluster of orchids”: 312. The cattleyas: 328–32; “do a cattleya” = “make love”: 331–32, 386, 528, 529. Odette wears violets in her bosom: 340–41, 604; or in her hair: 594–95. Gilberte and Odette like a white lilac beside a purple: II 189. The “winter-garden;” Mme Swann’s flowers; Parma violets, chrysanthemums: 228–34 (cf. I 594–95; V 216); guelder-roses: 289. Cornflowers near Balbec: 395–96. Human kindness blossoms like a solitary poppy: 437–38. Geranium cheeks of one of the girls at Balbec (Rose-monde?): 505, 659, 717–18. The “little band” like a bower of Pennsylvania roses: 516. Elstir’s flower-piece: 583–85 (cf. III 162–63). Albertine’s cheeks like rose petals; M’s “passionate longing for them such as one feels sometimes for a particular flower”: 639 (see also III 497). Hawthorn near Balbec: 685. Cherry-blossom, pear-blossom and lilac in Parisian suburbs: III 204–8. Mme de Villeparisis’s flower painting: 286–87. Her knowledge of botany: 372. Albertine “a rose