Marcel Proust: A Biography

102 MARCEL PROUST Mme Aubernon's, he remarked to Blanche: "These young colts of 1889 are even more amazing than those of '79." H ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY (^103) where Mme Aubernon puts away the dolls, male or female, that don't amuse her any more." Perhaps he ...

104 MARCEL PROUST Mme Aubemon owned a seaside villa at Trouville, the Manoir de la Cour Brillee, which helped to suggest Mme Ver ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY lOS Swann and Odette.! Madeleine, her daughter by the Baron de Pierrebourg, married in 1910 Comte Georges ...

106 MARCEL PROUST Joachim Murat's garden made Mme Lemaire's yard seem like a glade in a forest. She was a tall, energetic woman, ...

THE STUDENT IN SOCIETY 107 part of her evenings, and saw to it that many a great artist was first launched in Paris by performin ...

108 MARCEL PROUST in his anny year. At the Princesse de Guermantes'ssoiree M. de Charlus taunts her with her 'mystic name'l; and ...

Chapter 8 THE DUCHESSE AND ALBERTINE E ITHER at Mme Lemaire's or at Mme Straus's, for she was to be seen, a celestial visitor fr ...

IIO MARCEL PROUST de Miromesnil and the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore. Each day, when the countess drew near, his love combined w ...

THE DUCHESSE AND ALBERTINE III Avenue Gabriel had happened only yesterday. But by employing an impossible means in pursuit of an ...

112 MARCEL PROUST rest; and all stayed until she turned them out at four, sitting each in his own chair in a circle round the co ...

THE DUCHESSE AND ALBERTINE "3 was trenchant and hoarse, with a peasant-like roughness which, as Proust realised, came from her p ...

114 MARCEL PROUST respective years of philosophie at Condorcet, the title was borrowed from the French name of Plato's Symposium ...

THE DUCHESSE AND ALBERTINE liS us far more anxious to find a way into certain drawing-rooms of the nobility than to devote himse ...

u6 MARCEL PROUST Proust: 'but I'm afraid, such is his character,' she wrote, 'he stopped at the fa~ade and never even tried to p ...

THE DUCHESSE AND ALBERTINE 117 Finaly were Bloch father and son, it would follow (though nothing is known of his morals) that Ba ...

118 MARCEL PROUST one of the very few occasions on which his love for a woman was returned, for Gregh says again: 'he and the ch ...

THE DUCHESSE AND ALBERTINE 119 includes the Finalys. 'Mile Finaly,' he told Billy at the year's end, 'looks like a painting by R ...

Chapter 9 FIRST GLIMPSES OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN I N the latter half of 1892 Proust began again the series of ardent but stil ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 121 His new friendships in 1892 were symptoms, though he could not know it, of the approaching change; a ...