# Jupien — In Search of Lost Time character guide

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

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** M. Jupien, Jupien

**First appearance:** 0019-volume-iv-cities-of-the-plain

## Snapshot

A tailor whose vestibule adjoins the narrator's Paris home, and whose discreet dealings with the Baron de Charlus open onto a hidden world beneath respectable surfaces.

## Who they are

Jupien is a tradesman of modest manner but considerable shrewdness, whose shop and later household place him at the crossroads of the Guermantes quarter's visible and invisible lives. His connection with Charlus, at first a matter of business and patronage, deepens into something more intimate and more complicated, exposing the gap between public propriety and private arrangement. For the narrator he becomes an unwitting guide to the secret geography of Paris, where a tailor's doorway can lead somewhere the drawing-room never admits.

## In the story

### [Cities of the Plain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_search_of_lost_time_se/chapters/volume-iv-cities-of-the-plain)

Jupien is involved in a secret encounter with Charlus, highlighting the theme of sexuality and secrecy.

### [Prologue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_search_of_lost_time_se/chapters/part-i-prologue)

Jupien is the object of Charlus's attention; their encounter is described as a natural and inevitable meeting.

### [A Fresh Light Upon Robert de Saint-Loup](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_search_of_lost_time_se/chapters/iv-a-fresh-light-upon-robert-de-saint-loup)

His niece, Mademoiselle d'Oloron, marries into the Cambremer family; the marriage brings connections to many noble families.

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