Characters: J

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.

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Journalists in the theater; Saint-Loup strikes one of them
Julien: Françoise's son-in-law
Julot: one of the men the Narrator overhears in Jupien's brothel
Julot ("Big"): another habitué of Jupien's brothel, now at the front, of whom there as been no news
Jupien [zhoo’-pyenh]: tailor (or waistcoat-maker); becomes Charlus' "secretary," later buys and operates a brothel on his behalf
Jupien, Marie-Antoinette: niece of the above (although the Narrator's grandmother takes her for his daughter, and Proust occasionally makes the same mistake)

"King" of the South Sea island: staying with is mistress at the Grand Hotel, Balbec
Kitchenmaid at Combray: Françoise is particularly cruel to her; according to Swann resembles Giotto's "Charity"

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