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flowering by the sea”: 480. Scarlet geraniums in the Bois: 528. Botanical discussion at the Guermantes’: 706–9. The fertilisation of flowers; the orchid and the bee; an analogy with the conjunction of inverts: IV 2–4, 8–9, 36–44. Apple-blossom in sun and rain: 244–45. Hawthorn and apple-blossom: 250–51, 739–40. Albertine’s laugh, “pungent, sensual and revealing as the scent of geraniums”: 263. The garden at La Raspelière: 429. Elstir’s roses:464–65. Albertine’s hair like black violets: V 14. The syringa incident: 63–64, 811–13, 827–28. Elstir’s passion for violets: 178, 181. Honeysuckle and white geraniums in Vinteuil’s sonata: 332–33; his music has “the perfumed silkiness of a geranium”: 505.

FOOD. Stewed beef at Combray: I 11. Coffee-and-pistachio ice: 45. Lunch at Combray; Françoise’s culinary largesse: 96–98. Almond cake: 158. Françoise’s preparations for dinner: 168–70. Asparagus: 168–69. Françoise’s roast chicken: 170, 187. Swann’s gingerbread: 571. Dinner for Norpois; Françoise’s boeuf à la gelée: II 21, 39; pineapple and truffle salad: 41; Nesselrode pudding: 51. Chocolate cake for tea chez Gilberte: 107 (cf. 660). Lobster à l’Américaine: 152. “A blackish substance which I did not then know to be caviare”: 168. Soles for lunch at Balbec: 343. Mme de Villeparisis orders croque-monsieurs and creamed eggs: 370. Hotel dining-room at Doncières; Flemish profusion of victuals: III 125–26; exquisite dishes presented like works of art: 152. Chicken financière at the Guermantes dinner party: 690. The Duke’s leg of mutton with béarnaise sauce: 807. Dinner at La Raspelière; bouillabaisse: IV 405; grilled lobsters (demoiselles de Caen): 407; strawberry mousse: 460. Tea at La Raspelière—“pancakes, Norman puff pastry, trifles, boat-shaped tartlets …”: 543. The street cries of Paris—winkles: V 148; snails: 149; artichokes: 150; fish: 160–63; fruit, vegetables and cheese: 161–63. Albertine’s rhapsody on ice cream: 164–66. Display in a butcher’s shop: 176–77. Mme de Villeparisis and Norpois dine in Venice—red mullet and risotto: 856 (cf. 949). Dinner party at the Verdurins described by the Goncourts: VI 329.

FRIENDSHIP. Among the bourgeoisie, as opposed to the aristocracy, “always inseparable from respect”: I 440. M’s friendship with Saint-Loup; melancholy reflexions on the subject: II 430–31; his inability to find spiritual nourishment elsewhere than in himself makes him (in contrast with Saint-Loup) incapable of friendship: 491. Friendliness of a great artist superior to that of a nobleman: 556. Friendship an abdication of self and thus fatal to an artist; M prepared to sacrifice its pleasures to that of playing with the “little band” of girls: 664–65 (cf. III 540–41). The stuff of friendship: III 129–31. Mystery of instinctive, non-physical liking between men: 133. Our relations with friends “as eternally fluid as the sea itself”: 364. Further reflexions on friendship; its superficiality; “halfway between physical exhaustion and mental boredom;” yet even so deadly a brew can sometimes be precious and invigorating; from the realm of ideas M “thrown back upon friendship”: 540–45. Virtues of friendship enshrined in Saint-Loup: 565–68. Friendship and love: V 478–79. Necessity of lying between two friends one of whom is unhappy in love: 595. Friendship and treachery: 840–41. Revival of old friendships: 920 (cf. VI 330). M’s tarnished friendship with Saint-Loup: 935–36. Recollections of their friendship after Saint-Loup’s death: VI 331. A great friendship does not amount to much in society: 234. A “simulacrum,” an “agreeable folly”: 268, which leads nowhere: 434.

FURNITURE. Aunt Léonie’s rooms at Combray; her prie-dieu and velvet armchairs with antimacassars: I 66–68. Mme Verdurin’s high Swedish chair of waxed pinewood: 289; her Beauvais settee and chairs: 292–93. Furnishings of Odette’s house in the Rue La Perouse: 310–13. Odette’s taste in furniture: 346–47 (cf. II 105–6, 153–55, 261–63). The Iénas’ Empire furniture: 481 (cf. III 710–13). “Henri II” staircase in Swann’s house: II 105–6. Furniture in the Swanns’ drawing-room: 153