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Lambresac, Duchesse de: at the Princesse de Guermantes' her
smile, "instead of taking definite shape in an active
affirmation, in a language mute but clear, was drowned
almost immediately in a sort of ideal ecstasy which
expressed nothing, while her head dropped in a gesture of
blissful benediction, recalling that which a slightly
senile prelate bestows upon a crowd of communicants"
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Lavrières, the:
rich cousins of Françoise; the "only real
people in the book"
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Lau D'Allemans, Marquis du: an intimate friend
of Swann before his marriage;
the Duchesse de Guermantes
speaks of his informality with the Prince of Wales
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Laumes [lome], Prince and Princesse des: see Guermantes, Duc and Duchesse de
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Laundress: Brichot's mistress; Mme Verdurin breaks up their
relationship
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Laundry-girl in Touraine: has relations with Albertine (reported by Aimé
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Lavatory Attendant: see "Marquise"
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Lawyer: "eminent barrister from Paris",
friend of the Cambremers
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Léa, Mlle:
actress; lives with Bloch's cousin, Esther Lévy; writes a letter to
Morel exclaiming "Of
course you're one of us, pretty sweetheart"
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Leblois de Charlus, Comte: confused with the Baron de Charlus in some artistic
circles
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L'Éclin, Mme de: nicknamed "Hungry
Belly"
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Legrandin
[luh-grawnh-danh]: engineer and man of letters, brother of
Mme de Cambremer
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Léon, Prince de: brother-in-law of Saint-Loup and nephew of the Duchesse de Guermantes, who tells the
anecdote about beige breeches
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Léonie, Aunt
(Madame Octave): bedridden since her husband's death;
the Narrator gives some of her furniture to a
brothel-keeper
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Leroi, Mme Blanche: a snob; about love she says,
"I make it often but I never talk about it"
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Leroi-Beaulieu, Anatole (1842-1912): economist and
member of the Académie des Sciences morales et
politiques; advises the Narrator's father to stand
for election to the Institut
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Létourville, Duchesse de: meets the aged Charlus with the Narrator on the
Champs-Elysées and his shocked by the former's
appearance
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Létourville: young, relative of the above;
regards the Narrator as an elderly gentleman
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Lévy, Esther:
cousin of Bloch; lives with Léa; she and Bloch's sister attract Albertine's attention in the
Casino at Balbec
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Lift-boy at the Grand Hotel, Balbec: go-between
with Albertine; forgets to
shut doors; has curious verbal mannerisms
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Loiseau, Mme: has a house beside the church in
Combray; her fuchsias have the bad habit of "letting
their branches trail at all times and in all
directions"
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Longpont, Mme Barbe de: star attraction at one of
Mme Verdurin's Wednesdays at La Raspelière
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Loredan: nickname of Swann's coachman; see Rémi
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Luxembourg, Grand Duke of:
formerly Comte de Nassau, nephew of the Princesse de
Luxembourg; writes to the Narrator during his grandmother's illness
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Luxembourg, Princesse de:
introduced by Mme de
Villeparisis to the grandmother and the Narrator, who
writes, "in her anxiety not to appear to be enthroned
in a higher sphere than ours, she had probably
miscalculated the distance, for by some error in
adjustment her eyes became infused with such benevolence
that I foresaw that moment when she would put out her hand
and stroke us like two lovable beasts who had poked out
heads out at her through the bars of our cage in the
Zoo"
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