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Callot, "Mother": vegetable-seller of
Combray
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Cambremer
[kawm-bruh-mair], Dowager Marquis Zélia de:
salivates profusely; admires Chopin; uses "the rule
of the three adjectives"
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Cambremer, Marquis de:
married to Legrandin's
sister; nicknamed "Cancan"; interests and
delights in the Narrator's fits of breathlessness
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Cambremer, Marquise
Renée de: wife of the above and sister of Legrandin; despises Chopin but
enthusiastic for Wagner and Debussy
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Cambremer, Léonor de: son of above, marries
Jupien's niece
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Camille: servant to the Swann's
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Camus: grocer of Combray
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Cancan: see Cambremer, Marquis
de
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Caprarola, Princesse de: a caller on Mme Verdurin
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Cartier: brother of Mme de Villefranche and
intimate friend of the Duc de la Trémoïle; his
mot about Zola is recounted by Bréauté, to the
irritation of the Duchesse de
Guermantes
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Cashiers: at the Rivebelle restaurant, seem like
"two witches occupied in forecasting by astrological
signs the disasters that might from time to time occur in
this celestial vault fashioned according to the scientific
conceptions of the Middle Ages"
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Céleste: see Albaret
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Céline and Flora:
sister's of Narrator's grandmother
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Chanlivault, Mme de: sister of "le vieux
Chaussepierre"; aunt of M. de
Chaussepierre who later ousts the Duke de Guermantes
from the Jockey Club
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Charlus
[shar-loose’], Baron de (Palamède, nicknamed
"Mémé")
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Charmel: footman to the
Baron de Charlus
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Châtellerault, Duc
de: at the Princesse de Guermantes is recognized by the
usher whom he had met a few days earlier on the
Champs-Elysées, and to whom he had claimed "I
do not speak French"; proposes to Gilberte
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Châtellerault,
Prince de: friend of the Prince de
Foix; had expected to be engaged to Mlle Ambresac
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Chauffeur: hired by
Narrator at Balbec
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Chaussegros, Marquise de: mistakenly believes she
knows the Narrator
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Chaussepierre, M. de
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Chaussepierre, Mme de: the Duchesse de Guermantes refuses to
recognize her at the Princesse de
Guermantes's soirée
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Chenouville, M. de: referred to by the young Marquise de Cambremer as "my uncle de
Ch'nouville"
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Chevregny, M. de: relation of the Cambremers; has
"a detailed knowledge of Paris only to be found in
people who seldom go there"
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Citri, Marquise de: at Princesse de Guermantes'; finds
"everyone idiotic, but in her conversation, in her
letters, showed herself distinctly inferior to the people
whom she treated with such disdain"
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Coachman, Mme Verdurin's: see Howsler
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Coignet: one of Charlus'
valets
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Conductor (of a tram or bus) with whom Charlus has a rendezvous
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Cottard, Doctor
[ko’-tarh]
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Cottard, Mme Léntine: wife of the above
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Courgivaux, M. de: the Narrator mistakes him for
his son at the Guermantes matinée
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Courvoisier, Vicomte Adalbert de: nephew of the Marquise de Gallardon; an invert
but a good husband; frequents Jupien's brothel
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Courvoisiers, The:
relations and rivals of the Guermantes
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Cousin (female) by whom the Narrator is initiated
into "the delights of love" on Aunt Léonie's sofa
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Cousin of Narrator nicknamed "No flowers by
request"
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Cousin (of Bloch): see
Lévy, Esther
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Crécy, Pierre de Verjus, Comte de:
impoverished nobleman with a taste for good food and wine,
cigars and genealogy; befriended by the Narrator at
Balbec; Odette's first husband
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Crécy, Mme de: see
Odette
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Criquetot, M. de: his "How goes it?" one
of the familiarities of the second summer in Balbec
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Criquetot, Comtesse de: cousin of the Cambremers
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Curé of Combray: visits Aunt Léonie; has written a
pamphlet on the etymological origins of place-names in the
Balbec district
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