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.




  • Octave: young dandy at Balbec, consumptive, dissipated, a gambler, son of an industrialist
  • Octave, Mme: see Léonie, Aunt
  • Octave, Uncle: husband of Aunt Léonie; already dead when the Narrator spends holidays at Combray
  • Odette: Mme de Crécy, then Mme Swann, and finally Mme de Forcheville
  • Oloron, Mlle d': see Jupien, Marie-Antoinette
  • Orgeville, Mlle de l': girl of good family said by Saint-Loup to frequent brothels (see Eporcheville, Mlle de)
  • Oriane: see Guermantes, Duchesse de
  • Orsan, M. d': friend of Swann, suspected of having written the anonymous letter
  • Orvillers, Princesse d' (Paulette): makes advances to the Narrator on the street (see Nassau, Princesse de)
  • Osmond, Amanien, Marquis d' ("Mama"): cousin of the Guermantes; his imminent death has unwelcome consequences for their immediate social engagements


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