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G----: writer; visits Mme
de Villeparisis, which he regards as "tiresome
duty"; frequently invited to the Duchesse de Guermantes', whom he
considers a "woman of intelligence"
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Gallardon
[gah’-yarh-donh], Marquise de, née
Courvoisier: her favorite subject of meditation is her
kinship with the Guermantes, "from which she derived
both publicly and in private a good deal of glory not
unmingled with shame, the most brilliant ornaments of that
house remaining somewhat aloof from her"
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Gallardon, Dowager Duchesse de: mother-in-law of
the Princesse de Gallardon; confuses Aristotle with
Aristophanes
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Galopin: pastrycook at Combray; Françoise reports to Aunt Léonie that he as brought
back a new dog from Lisieux
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Gardener at Combray: aligns the garden path's
too symmetrically according to the Narrator's grandmother; views revolution as
better than war
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Gardener at La Raspelièere: groans beneath
the Verdurin's yoke and
has mixed feelings about the Marquise de Cambremer
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Gaucourt, Mme de: sister of M. de Cambremer; suffers from fits of
breathlessness
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Gibergue: friend of Saint-Loup at Doncières
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Gilbert: see Guermantes,
Prince de
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Gilberte
[zheel-bairte’]: daughter of Swann and Odette
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Gineste, Marie: sister of
Céleste Albaret;
lady's-maid at Balbec; "more regularly rapid and
staccato" than her sister
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Girl (tall and handsome): admired by Narrator as
she serves café au lait to passengers on the train
to Balbec
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Girl ("glorious"): joins the train at
Saint-Pierre-des-Ifs and smokes a cigarette
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Girl (with blue eyes): met by Swann in a brothel
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Girl (blond): gazes at the Narrator in the
restaurant at Rivebelle
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Girl: as she gets into a motor-car in the Bois, her
build reminds the Narrator of Albertine
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Girl (little poor): taken home by the Narrator
after Albertine's
departure
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Girl (little): repairing bicycle in the Bois
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Girl (little): says good-bye to Gilberte on the Champs-Elysées,
"evoking all the more forcefully the girl whom it
labeled in that it did not merely refer to her, as one
speaks of someone in his absence, but was directly
addressed to her"
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Girls (two): friends of Léa, whom Albertine stares at in the mirror in
the Casino at Balbec
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Girls (three): in the Bois, "like three
immortals leaning against the clouds or the fabulous
coursers upon which they perform their mythological
journeys"
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Girls at Balbec: members of "the little
band"
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Gisèle: member of the little band; in her
rasping makes a remark "with more sarcasm than
sympathy" when Andrée jumps over an old
gentleman
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Glass-Vendor (young Venetian): a "genuine
Titian" with whom Narrator has a liaison
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Goupil, Mme: her tardiness of Elevation a matter of
speculation for Françoise and Aunt Léonie
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Governess (Gilberte's): wears a blue feather in
her hat
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Grandfather of the
Narrator (Amédée): a great friend of Swann's father
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Grandmother of the
Narrator (Bathilde or Mme Amédée)
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Great-Aunt of the Narrator, cousin of the
Narrator's grandfather and mother of
Aunt Léonie; teases
the Narrator's grandmother
about the grandfather drinking brandy
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Great-Grandfather of the Narrator: referred to
contemptuously by Mme
Verdurin for his stinginess
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Great-Uncle of the Narrator: pulls on the
Narrator's curls
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Grigri: see Agrigente,
Prince d'
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Grouchy, M. de: arrives late to the Guermantes'
dinner and offers the Duchesse de
Guermantes a "six brace of pheasant"
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Grouchy, Mme de: wife of the above; daughter of the
Vicomtesse de Guermantes
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Guastalla, Duc de: son of the Princesse de Parme;
Charlus' cousin
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Guastalla, Albert, Duc de:
son of the Princesse d'Iéna; Charlus ridicules his title
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Guermantes
[gair’-mahnte], Basin, Duc de: Prince de Laumes
before inheriting his dukedom on the death of his father,
brother of Charlus and the Comtesse de Marsantes
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Guermantes
[gair’-mahnte], Oriane, Duchesse de: married to the
above, her cousin; formerly Princesse de Laumes
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Guermantes, Gilbert,
Prince de: cousin of the Duc de
Guermantes: obsessed with rank and birth; becomes
persuaded of Dreyfus' innocence
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Guermantes, Princesse
Marie de, née Duchesse en Bavière, known as
Marie-Gilbert or Marie-Hedwige: wife of the above, sister
of the Duke of Bavaria; has a unrequited passion for Charlus
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Guermantes, Baron de: friend of the Duc de Châtellerault; attends Mme de Villeparisis' salon
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Guermantes-Brassac, Mlle de: niece of the Princesse de Guermantes; rumored to
be engaged to Saint-Loup
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