Marcel Proust: A Biography

MARCEL PROUST Rochefoucauld's son Gabriel. Shortly before his attendance at the Noailles dinner of 20 June Comte Gabriel had met ...

SAINT-LOUP family jewels, his mother's bright eyes'. He was the only one of Proust's aristocratic young friends whose blood had ...

MARCEL PROUST flabby hand. A year later Antoine instructed him in the etiquette of shaking hands: "You must grip powerfully, Mar ...

SAINT-LOUP Georges de Lauris, who had met Fenelon in the Bibliotheque Nationale, where Lauris was researching for a doctoral the ...

MARCEL PROUST of the most interesting pastimes of friendship was to introduce one friend to another, and see whether they took t ...

SAINT-LOUP of provoking Antoine's jealousy, he thought of transferring his devotion to Fenelon. 'With Fenelon, I'm only at the h ...

300 MARCEL PROUST Early in 1902 Marie Nordlinger returned to Paris, after an absence of three and a half years, to work as a sil ...

SAINT-LOUP 301 hint that the church might possess a beauty of its own, in- dependent of the hot sunlight in the market-place, th ...

302 MARCEL PROUST Loup-de-Naud, a partly romanesque and partly gothic church, with the sculptured portal which showed, as Abbe N ...

SAINT-LOUP 303 appear the sculptured heads of eight colossal oxen, carved in memory of the beasts who dragged the stones for the ...

304 MARCEL PROUST endless green landscape of their youth.^1 Then night came, and cold; it was after midnight when they reached P ...

SAINT-LOUP 305 hope he continues to do so! He is so intelligently kind to me, so kind, and so intelligent.' But during July he t ...

MARCEL PROUST she took them over the cliff tops in her motor-car to Honfleur, through the landscapes he had roamed with Marie Fi ...

SAINT-LOUP the mirroring windows of the gabled houses on either bank'. On '5 October he went to Vollendam by barge, 'through fla ...

308 MARCEL PROUST excitement. When he saw Antoine's first letter, in which the very handwriting was shrunk by suffering, he was ...

SAINT-LOUP they were no doubt justifiable in themselves, would never have occurred to her if he had been safely bedridden. He ke ...

310 MARCEL PROUST nor was Antoine, when Proust objected to his recommendation of firmness in shaking hands: "but people would ta ...

SAINT-LOUP 311 Two other complications prevented him from visiting the bereaved Antoine in Roumania. Early in December he signed ...

JI2 MARCEL PROUST the pews; instead, he stood in the aisle looking like Tweedledum, 'his Lazarus-like face with its melancholy m ...

SAINT-LOUP 313 New Year's Day '903, but intends to unscrew and return the plaque so ironically engraved with 'Sweetest of blessi ...