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Actress (from the
Odéon): forms an exclusive group at Balbec with her
lover, a Rich Young Man, and
two aristocratic friends (see Vaudémont)
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Actress-Singer (novice): "tortured" by Rachel and other members of the
company
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Actress (retired) with
whom Bloch's sister causes
a scandal
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Adolphe, Uncle: brother of
the Narrator's grandfather, the Narrator retreats to
his "sanctum" in Combray, visits him in Paris
and there meets the "lady in pink"
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Agrigente
[a-gree-zhawnht´], Prince d'
("Grigri"): at the Guermantes dinner-party makes
a bad impression on the Narrator; unable to disguise his
ignorance of Flaubert; at the Guermantes matinée
"embellished" by age
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Aimé: headwaiter at
the Grand Hotel, Balbec
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A.J.: see Moreau, A.J.
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Albaret, Céleste:
sister of Marie Gineste;
lady's-maid in the Grand Hotel; "softer and more
languishing" than her sister
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Albert: see Guastella,
Albert, Duc de
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Albertine
[al-bair-teen´], Simonet: niece of M. and Mme Bontemps, the "famous Albertine," one of the "little band" at Balbec
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Albon, Old M. d': smiles at a remark by the Duchesse de Guermantes
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Alix: the "Marie-Antoinette of the Quai
Malaquais," one of the "three Parcae" at Mme de Villeparisis'
reception
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Ambassadress, Turkish: "devoured by social
ambition and endowed with a real power of assimilating
knowledge," but "perpetually in error"
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Ambresac, M., Mme and Mesdemoiselles d':
related to Mme de
Villeparisis; own a small villa near Balbec,
"immensely rich, led the simplest of lives, and
always went about in the same clothes"
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Ambresac, Mlle Daisy:
one of the two young Ambresac sisters; Saint-Loup denies that he is engaged
to marry her
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Amédée: maternal grandfather of the Narrator
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Amoncourt, Mme Timoléon d': offers the
Duchesse de Guermantes some
Ibsen manuscripts; witty, beautiful, and obliging
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Andrée: the eldest
of the "little band" of girls at Balbec, the
"tall one"; dances with Albertine at the Casino at Incarville
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Andrée's mother: looks upon Albertine as unfortunate, but the
"best-natured girl living, and one who was incapable
of making anything up except to give pleasure"
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Antoine: the
Guermantes' butler: arrogant and anti-Dreyfusard; Françoise calls his wife
"Antoinesse"
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Archivist: at Mme de
Villeparisis' salon; see Vallenères
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Argencourt [ar-zhawnh-koorh´], Comte d',
later Marquis d': Belgian Chargé d'Affaire
in Paris; at Mme de
Villeparisis' salon; later when the Narrator and
Charlus meet him on the street
the latter describes him as "well born but ill bred,
a worse than second-rate diplomat, an execrable husband
and a womanizer"; at the matinée Guermantes an
amiable old dotard
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Argencourt, Dowager Comtesse d' (née
Seineport): mother of the above
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Arpajon, Vicomtesse or
Comtesse d': the Duc de
Guermantes' mistress; drenched by the Hubert
Robert fountain
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Auberjon, Duchesse Gisèle d': summoned
by Mme de Villeparisis to help
with her theatricals
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Aumaule, Henri d'Orléan, Duc de
(1822-97): French general and historian, fourth son of
Louis-Phillipe
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Ayen, Duchesse Jane d': Charlus deplores the conversation at
her house
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