Le Temps retrouvé

Now married to Robert de Saint-Loup; the volume opens with the narrator's visit to her at Tansonville, and she is scarcely recognisable when he meets her again years later.

Aged and isolated during the war, holding pro-German sympathies amid wartime hostility; the narrator discovers him frequenting a masochistic hotel run by Jupien.

The Duchesse de Guermantes; is unexpectedly and deeply affected by Robert de Saint-Loup's death.

Formerly the bourgeois hostess of "the little clan"; has risen through remarriage to become the Princesse de Guermantes.

Now Madame de Forcheville; at the Guermantes reception the narrator observes that, unlike everyone else, she appears untouched by age.