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.


  • Faffenheim-Munsterburg-Weinigen, Prince von: German Prime Minister; tries to persuade Norpois to get him elected to the Institut
  • Farcy, Mme de: American wife of the Comte de Farcy, an obscure relation of the Forchevilles
  • Father of the Narrator
  • Féré, M. and Mme: friends of the Cambremers, who give a dinner in their honor; described as "out of the top drawer"
  • Fierbois, Marquis de: his "complicated and rapid capers" condemned as ridiculous by Charlus
  • Fisher-Girl: approached by the Narrator at Carqueville
  • Flora: see Céline and Flora
  • Foggi, Prince Odo: discusses Italian politics with Norpois in Venice
  • Foix, Prince de: habitué of the restaurant where the Narrator dines with Saint-Loup; rich, and belongs not only to a fashionable set of fifteen or so young men, but to a more exclusive and inseparable group of four, which includes Saint-Loup
  • Foix, Prince de: father of the above; habitué of Jupien's brothel, where his death is regretted.
  • Footman (young): see Périgot
  • Footman at the Guermantes': see Poullein
  • Footman of Mme de Chevregny: invited to dinner at the Grand Hotel, Balbec, by Charlus
  • Footman at the Verdurin's: "a newcomer, and quite young"; an object of Charlus' attention
  • Footmen (other) at the Guermantes'
  • Footmen at the Swann's
  • Footmen of Charlus: see Burnier; Charmel
  • Footmen at Mme de Saint-Euverte's: elicit Swann's tendency to see analogies between living people and works of art; compared to Mantegna's "Martyrdom of St. James" and to the figures on the "Staircase of the Giants" at the Ducal Palace in Venice
  • Forcheville [forsh-veel], Comte (later Baron) de: introduced to the Verdurins by Odette; later marries her and adopts Gilberte
  • Forcheville, Mme de: see Odette
  • Forcheville, Mlle de: see Gilberte
  • Forestelle, Marquis de: friend of Swann; his monocle "was minute and rimless, and, by enforcing an incessant and painful contraction of the eye in which it was embedded like a superfluous cartilage the presence of which is inexplicable and its substance unimaginable, gave to his face a melancholy refinement, and led women to suppose him capable of suffering greatly the pangs of love"
  • Forestier, Robert: playmate of the Narrator in the Champs-Elysées
  • Françoise: Aunt Léonie's cook at Combray, then enters in service with the Narrator's family
  • Françoise's cousins: see Larivières
  • Françoise's daughter: see Marguerite
  • Françoise's nephews: one tries to get exempted from military service during the war, another is killed at Berry-au-Bac
  • Françoise's niece: a "butcheress"
  • Françoise's son-in-law: see Julien
  • Franquetot, Vicomtesse de: cousin of the dowager Marquis de Cambremer; "thought it elegant and original to show all her fine friends that she preferred to their company that of an obscure lady with whom she had childhood memories in common"
  • Frécourt, Marquis de: the red-tiled turret of his coach-house reminiscent of "picturesque old buildings in Switzerland which spring up in isolation at the foot of a mountain"
  • Froberville, General de: his monocle "stuck between his eyelids like a shell-splinter in his vulgar, scarred and overbearing face, in the middle of a forehead which it dominated like the single eye of the Cyclops, appeared to Swann as a monstrous wound which it might have been glorious to receive but which it was indecent to expose"
  • Froberville, Colonel de: nephew of the above; hopes for the failure of the Marquise de Saint-Euverte's garden-party and is delighted to hear that the Duchesse de Guermantes will not attend; the Duc de Guermantes describes him as "gaga"
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