He is a pompous man with a succession of mistresses.

Basin, Duc de Guermantes: Oriane's husband and Charlus's brother.

She is an old friend of the Narrator's grandmother.

Marquise de Villeparisis: The aunt of the Baron de Charlus.

Models are Gaston de Cavaillet and Clement de Maugny.

de Guermantes) and affluent lifestyle, Saint-Loup has no great fortune of his own until he marries Gilberte. Despite his patrician birth (he is the nephew of M.

Robert de Saint-Loup: An army officer and the narrator's best friend.

Models are Comtesse Greffulhe and Laure de Chevigné. She lives in the fashionable Faubourg St. Oriane, Duchesse de Guermantes: The toast of Paris high society.Palamède, Baron de Charlus: An aristocratic, decadent aesthete with many antisocial habits.Françoise: The Narrator's faithful, stubborn maid.Uncle Adolphe: The Narrator's great-uncle, who has many actress friends.Aunt Léonie: A sickly woman whom the Narrator visits during stays at Combray.Her life and death greatly influence her daughter and grandson. Bathilde Amédée: The narrator's grandmother.The Narrator's mother: A supportive woman who worries for her son's career.The Narrator's father: A diplomat who initially discourages the Narrator from writing.In volume 5, The Captive, he addresses the reader thus: 'Now she began to speak her first words were 'darling' or 'my darling,' followed by my Christian name, which, if we give the narrator the same name as the author of this book, would produce 'darling Marcel' or 'my darling Marcel.'' (Proust, 64) The Narrator: A sensitive young man who wishes to become a writer, whose identity is kept vague.

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