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Pages at the Grand Hotel, Balbec: the
"arborescent" page, the "squinting"
page, the "hat-doffing" page, and the
"handsome" page whom the lift-boy resembles
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Palancy, Marquis de: Swann finds he resembles a
Ghirlandaio's Old Man
with his Grandchild; "with his huge
carp's head and goggling eyes [he] moved slowly
through the festive gathering, periodically unclenching
his mandibles as though in search of his orientation, [he]
had the air of carrying about upon his person only an
accidental and perhaps purely symbolical fragment of the
glass wall of his aquarium, a part intended to suggest the
whole, which recalled to Swann, a fervent admirer of
Giotto's Vices and Virtues at Padua, that figure
representing Injustice by whose
side a leafy bough evokes the idea of the forests that
enshroud his secret lair"
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Park-Keeper in the Champs-Elysées
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Parme, Princesse de: gives
the most splendid parties in Paris; "devoid of
snobbishness as are most truly royal personages and by
contrast eaten up with pride in and passion for charity
which rivaled her taste for what she believed to be the
Arts"
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Pastry-Cook: stared at by Albertine, whom she ignores
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Percepied, Doctor: the Narrator composes his first
literary essay in his carriage
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Périgot, Joseph:
Françoise's young
footman in Paris who takes pleasure in moving house
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Peruvian (young): conceives a violent hatred for Mme de Mortemart
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Philosopher, Norwegian: guest of the Verdurins at La Raspelière
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Pianist (young):
patronized by the Verdurins
(Dechambre?)
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Pierre, M.: historian of the Fronde at the salon of
Mme de Villeparisis
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Pierre: club doorman who
writes Charlus an intimate
letter
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Piperaud, Dr.: Combray doctor
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Picquart, Georges-Marie, later General and Minister
of War (1854-1914): one of the principal actors in the
Dreyfus case; frequents Mme
Verdurin's salon
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Plassac, Walpurge,
Marquise de: calls on her cousin the Duc de Guermantes, with her sister Mme de Tresmes, to report on Amanien d'Osmond's state
of health; one of the women with the
"walking-sticks"
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Poictiers, Duchesse de: cousin of Saint-Loup, who recommends her to the
Narrator as a substitute in his affections for the Duchess de Guermantes
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Poiré, Abbé: Dreyfusist priest
confided in by both the Prince
and the Princesse de
Guermantes
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Poix, Princesse de: intimate friend of the Duchess de Guermantes
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Pommelière, Marquise de la: nicknamed
"la Pomme"
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Poncin, M.: senior judge
from Caen, on holiday at Balbec; becomes Commander of the
Legion of Honour
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Poncin, Mme: wife of the above; has
misapprehensions about Mme de
Villeparisis and the Princesse
of Luxembourg
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Portefin, Berthe, Duchesse de: helps Mme de Villeparisis with her
theatricals
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Poullein: Guermantes footman, prevented from
going to see his fiancée
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Poussin, Mme: lady from Combray on holiday at
Balbec with her daughters, nicknamed "Just You
Wait"
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Publisher from Paris, visits La Raspelière;
"not smart enough for the little clan"
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Pupin, M., daughter of: schoolgirl at Combray
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Putbus, Baroness: described by the Duchesse de Guermantes as "the
dregs of society"; arrives in Venice on the day of
the narrator's departure
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Putbus, Maid of Baroness: said by Saint-Loup to be
partial to women and frequent brothels; the Narrator
desires her; Théodore's sister
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