# Andrée — In Search of Lost Time character guide

> Andrée in In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Andrée

**First appearance:** 0012-part-ii-seascape-with-frieze-of-girls

## Snapshot

One of the 'little band' of Balbec girls, a friend of Albertine whose easy affection and ambiguous loyalties make her both a rival and a confidante.

## Who they are

Andrée is part of the radiant group of girls whose appearance on the Balbec promenade transfixes the narrator, and she remains a close friend of Albertine throughout the novel. Her relationship with Albertine is intimate in ways the narrator can never fully penetrate, and his jealousy increasingly fixes on her as a possible rival or accomplice. She matters as a living question mark: the narrator's inability to know what Andrée and Albertine mean to each other becomes a model of the epistemological torment that love, for him, always entails.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_search_of_lost_time_se/chapters/part-ii-iv)

Andrée is mentioned as a possible object of Albertine's affections, contributing to the narrator's unease.

### [The Captive](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_search_of_lost_time_se/chapters/volume-v-the-captive)

A friend of Albertine who visits and is suspected by the narrator of being involved in Albertine's secret life.

## Links

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