Marcel Proust: A Biography

14~ MARCEL PROUST appeared only once more, in 1896-and in aggrieving Montes- quiou, who was never the man to take good intention ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN '43 vow.' So Montesquiou began the movement which restored her to her rightful position as one of the mo ...

'44 MARCEL PROUST one kind of music would suit his mood that afternoon, namely, the barrel-organ; and he carried them off to the ...

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 145 shall see him ending his attachment to Delafosse at a time of his own choosing, without regret, with ...

MARCEL PROUST figured still more prominently in the programme; and when Delafosse played everyone knew that the real guest of ho ...

Chapter 10 THE GUERMANTES WAY F OR an unbroken period of four years, until he was turned away by growing ill-health, the stresse ...

MARCEL PROUST Her husband belonged to a Belgian banking family naturalised in France, whose nobility, like the Caraman-Chimays' ...

THE GUERMANTES WAY '49 care for Montesquiou and his friends, who descended on his Villa La Case at Dieppe every September as soo ...

MARCEL PROUST would be heard to remark afterwards: "Did you know that even iron suffers from fatigue?" She took a public interes ...

THE GUERMANTES WAY ISJ the marriages he recommended always failed, the interior decora- tions looked hideous, and the investment ...

MARCEL PROUST a dinner to Mme de Chevigne's heroine, the Grand-Duchess Wladimir, and GaIliffet. "Your Highness is sitting betwee ...

THE G UERMANTES WAY Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince de Sagan. Just as the Princesse de Guermantes was a Bavarian royalty, so Comtess ...

154 MARCEL PROUST Duc de La Rochefoucauld." And the refusal of the Prince de Guermantes to greet Mme (,Tiny') de Hunolstein at t ...

THE GUERMANTES WAY elegance of his time. He was unintelligent and devoid of taste except in clothes; but as he had now been sepa ...

MARCEL PROUST de Guermantes refers to her as 'my aunt Sagan', and F ran~oise, with her love of unsafe grammatical analogies, as ...

THE GUERMANTES WAY IS7 Philippe, she married the Marquis de Contades, whose descendant Vicomte Antoine de Contades was to become ...

MARCEL PROUST 'this witty old woman with her inexhaustible flow of talk' would write her memoirs. She never did; and the Memoirs ...

THE G UERMANTES WAY In real life Mme Blanche Leroi, who bows so coldly to poor Mme de Villeparisis and refuses to attend her sal ...

160 MARCEL PROUST junior, and one of the two brothers Proust had pursued because they had their aunt's blue eyes and beaked nose ...

THE G UERMANTES WAY to persuade herself, in a well-meaning sort of way, that she's the muse Polyhymnia," said Montesquiou, who w ...