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the Champs-Elysées (564). The reader of the Débats (Mme Blatin) (565; cf. 587). Marks of friendship: the agate marble, the Bergotte booklet, “You may call me Gilberte” (573); why they fail to bring me the expected happiness (574). A spring day in winter: joy and disappointment (575). The Swann of Combray has become a different person: Gilberte’s father (578). Gilberte tells me with cruel delight that she will not be returning to the Champs-Elysées before the New Year (580). “In my friendship with Gilberte, it was I alone who loved” (585). The name Swann (586; cf. 202). Swann meets my mother in the Trois Quartiers (588). Pilgrimage with Françoise to the Swanns’ house near the Bois (591).

The Bois, Garden of Woman. Mme Swann in the Bois (594). A walk through the Bois one late autumn morning in 1913 (598). Memory and reality (606).

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Biographical Note

Contents

An Introduction by Richard Howard

A Note on the Translation (1981) by Terence Kilmartin

A Note on the Revised Translation (1992) by D. J. Enright

Part One - Combray

Part Two - Swann in Love

Part Three - Place-Names • The Name

Notes

Synopsis