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Faffenheim-Munsterburg-Weinigen, Prince von:
German Prime Minister; tries to persuade Norpois to get him elected to the
Institut
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Farcy, Mme de: American wife of the Comte de Farcy,
an obscure relation of the Forchevilles
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Father of the Narrator
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Féré, M. and Mme: friends of the Cambremers, who give a dinner in
their honor; described as "out of the top
drawer"
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Fierbois, Marquis de: his "complicated and
rapid capers" condemned as ridiculous by Charlus
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Fisher-Girl: approached by the Narrator at
Carqueville
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Flora: see Céline
and Flora
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Foggi, Prince Odo: discusses Italian politics with
Norpois in Venice
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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
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Foix, Prince de: father of the above;
habitué of Jupien's brothel, where his death
is regretted.
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Footman (young): see Périgot
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Footman at the Guermantes': see Poullein
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Footman of Mme de Chevregny: invited to dinner at
the Grand Hotel, Balbec, by Charlus
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Footman at the Verdurin's: "a newcomer, and
quite young"; an object of Charlus' attention
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Footmen (other) at the Guermantes'
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Footmen at the Swann's
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Footmen of Charlus: see
Burnier; Charmel
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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
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Forcheville [forsh-veel],
Comte (later Baron) de: introduced to the Verdurins by Odette; later marries her and adopts
Gilberte
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Forcheville, Mme de: see Odette
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Forcheville, Mlle de: see Gilberte
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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"
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Forestier, Robert: playmate of the Narrator in the
Champs-Elysées
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Françoise: Aunt Léonie's cook at
Combray, then enters in service with the Narrator's
family
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Françoise's cousins: see Larivières
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Françoise's daughter: see Marguerite
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Françoise's nephews: one tries to get
exempted from military service during the war, another is
killed at Berry-au-Bac
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Françoise's niece: a
"butcheress"
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Françoise's son-in-law: see Julien
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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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