Oriane de Guermantes
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Oriane de Guermantes (Duchesse de Guermantes), fictional character in the semiautobiographical novel by Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. Based partly on Countess de Chevigné and the Countess de Greffulhe.
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The Guermantes
- Palamède de Guermantes (Baron de Charlus): An aristocratic, decadent aesthete with many antisocial habits.
- Oriane de Guermantes (Duchesse de Guermantes): The toast of Paris' high society. She lives in the fashionable Faubourg St. Germain.
- Robert de Saint-Loup: An army officer and the narrator's best friend. Despite his patrician birth (he is the nephew of M. de Guermantes, the husband of Gilberte) and affluent lifestyle, Saint-Loup has no great fortune of his own.
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