Characters in Le Temps retrouvé

Supporting characters

• Gilberte Swann

  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.

  Also in Du côté de chez Swann, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Sodoma e Gomorra. Alla ricerca del tempo perduto

• Baron de Charlus

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

  Also in In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Sodoma e Gomorra. Alla ricerca del tempo perduto

• Madame de Guermantes

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

• Madame Verdurin

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

  Also in Du côté de chez Swann

• Odette de Crécy

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

  Also in Du côté de chez Swann, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Sodoma e Gomorra. Alla ricerca del tempo perduto

• Jupien

  Runs the wartime Paris hotel where the narrator discovers the Baron de Charlus's masochistic liaisons.

• Françoise (À la recherche du temps perdu)

  The narrator's family servant, still at his side as he resolves to begin his life's work.

  Also in Du côté de chez Swann, Sodoma e Gomorra. Alla ricerca del tempo perduto, Albertine disparue