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and white hawthorn-chapels, the orris-roots in the lavatory, the
magic-lantern with Golo and Genevieve de Brabant. But Swann,
Gilberte and the Duchesse de Guertnantes are absent; there is no
Eulalie, and the invalid aunt, Mme Sureau, though she is allowed
in a brief episode to question Ernestine on the passers-by in the
street, is not given the importance of Aunt Leonie. Sunday mass
in the church is described, but not the church itself, nor the parish
priest. The Two Ways, along which the whole of A la Recherche
was to be constructed, remain un-thought of; the dancing spires
of Martinville-Ie-Sec remain invisible until Proust repeats the
experience at Caen in '907; and Montjouvain receives only a
passing mention as a place where the family sometimes picnics.
The river is still named the Loir; and Proust sometimes forgets
himself, and calls the village IIIiers, and himself not 'Jean' but '1'.
When the story re-opens in Part III Jean is seventeen, and
beginning his year of philosophie. He meets his new schoolmaster,
M. Beulier,1 who is modelled closely on Alphonse DarIu, and a
new schoolfellow, Henri, son of the Duc and Duchesse de
Reveillon. His parents forbid him to dine out with Henri, un-
justly suspecting that the two boys mean to spend the evening
with prostitutes, and Jean quarrels with them violently. This
parental interference may well have occurred in Proust's late
teens, and is less likely to belong to the mid-1 890S, when his
mother and father usually forbore to meddle with his private life;
but the other circumstances of the scene are taken, as we shall
see, from a quarrel which occurred in or about May 1897. In
Chapter VI Henri's name is suddenly changed to Bertrand de
Rt5veillon, and the character described, in particular his walking,
like Saint-Loup, along the partition in a restaurant to fetch Jean's
greatcoat, is recognisable as Bertrand de Fenelon. Proust perhaps
did not meet Fenelon until November 1901, and this chapter is
thus the only one in Jean Santeuil which seems likely to have
been written after he virtually abandoned his novel in the autumn
of 1899.
Part IV describes a summer visit to ReveiIJon, the chateau of
Henri's parents. Reveillon is modelled on Mme Lemaire's country-
house of the same name; and the visit corresponds to Proust's
1 The episode in the classroom cannot have been written before I897, fOl
it b l.:'k·arly a counterblast to the opening chapter of Banes's Les Deradnb,
which appeared in that year.