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Mama: see Osmond,
Amanien, Marquis d'
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Mamma: Narrator's
mother; increasingly resembles her mother
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Manager of the Grand Hotel, Balbec: cocommitsany
and various malapropisms
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Manchester, Consuelo, Duchess of: takes the Duchesse de Guermantes shopping
in London
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"Marcel": the common desigation for the
novel's Narrator, this name appears twice in the
narrative. In The Captive the Narrator states
that if Albertine were to call
him by the name of the author of this book, she would call
him "Marcel." She later calls him
"Marcel" without the conditional.
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Marie-Aynard: see Marsantes,
Comtesse de
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Marie-Gilbert or Marie-Hedwige: see Guermantes, Princesse Marie de
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Marguerite: Françoise's daughter;
adopts a Parisian slang and disdainfully refers to Combray
as "the back of beyond"
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"Marquise": the
Keeper of the water-closets on the Champs-Elysées
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Marsantes, Comte or Marquis de: Saint-Loup's father; president of
the Jockey Club for ten years; killed in the war of
1870-71.
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Marsantes, Comtesse de
(Marie-Aynard): widow of the above, Saint-Loup's mother and sister of
the Duc de Guermantes and Charlus
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Mathilde, Princesse, daughter of
Jérôme Bonaparte (1820-1904): the Narrator
meets her with the Swanns in the Bois de Boulogne
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Maurice: one of the "gigolos" in Jupien's brothel
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Méline, Jules, rench Statesman (1838-1925):
Prime Minister during the Dreyfus Case; friend of the
Narrator's father
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Mémé: Charlus' nickname
(Palamède)
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Molé, Comtesse: mysteriously, the object of Charlus' rancour, but defends him
against the Verdurins during
the War
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Monk: brother-in-law of the Narrator's grandmother; surreptitiously observes
the Narrator while praying by her death-bed
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Monserfeuil, General de:
the Duchesse de Guermantes
refuses to speak to him on behalf of Saint-Loup (see Beauserfeuil)
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Monteriender, Comtesse de: at Mme de Sainte-Euverte's makes an
absurd remark about Vinteuil's sonata: "It's
astonishing! I've never seen anything to beat it . . .
since table turning!"
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Montmorency-Luxembourg, Duchesse de: feels a great
deal kindlier about the Duchesse
de Guermantes than the Duchesse about her
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Montpeyroux, Comtesse
de: sister of the Vicomtesse de
Vélude; nicknamed "Petite" because of
her stoutness
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Moreau, A.J.: friend and
colleague of the Narrator's father
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Morel, Charles:
violinist, son of Uncle
Adolphe's valet
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Morienval, Baronne de: at the Opéra,
compared unfavorably to the Princesse and the Duchesse de Guermantes
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Mortemart, Duchesse
de: converses with Charlus at
the Verdurin's
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Musician (eminent), friend of Ski's, invited to La
Raspelière
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