List of Characters
This list is adapted from "A Guide to Proust" found in the Modern Library edition of Time Regained.
I acknowledge a debt to Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, and the editors of that edition. Who's Who in Proust is another resource and includes a Guermantes family tree. Spoiler Warning: some of the descriptions below include details revealed late in novel.


  • E----, Professor: distinguished doctor whom the Narrator persuades to examine his grandmother after her stroke
  • Egremont, Vicomtesse d': assumes the role of parlor-maid chez the Princesse d'Epinay
  • Elstir [el-steer’]: painter, known at the Verdurin's as "Master Biche"
  • Elstir Mme: wife of the above; Albertine admires her taste in clothes; embodies the kind of "heavy" "Venetian" beauty Elstir sought to capture in his painting
  • Entragues, Mlle d': daughter of the Duc de Luxembourg, sought in marriage by Saint-Loup and by the Duc de Châtellerault
  • Epinay, Victurnienne, Princesse d': admirer of the Duchesse de Guermantes' witticisms
  • Epinay, Princesse d': astonished at the brilliance of Odette's salon
  • Eporcheville, Mlle d': her name wrongly thought by the Narrator to be that of the girl of good family recommended by Saint-Loup as a frequenter of brothels.
  • Esther: see Lévy Esther
  • Eudoxia, Queen: wife of King Theodosius
  • Eudoxie, Grand Duchess: friend of Princess Sherbatoff
  • Eugène, M.: Deputy of the Liberal Action party, an habitué of Jupien's brothel
  • Eulalie: retired domestic servant at Combray; confidant of Aunt Léonie and rival of Françoise
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