In Search of Lost Time · Character

Madame Cottard

The doctor's kind but somewhat simple wife, also in the Verdurin circle.

minor

Also known as Mme. Cottard

First appearance: swann in love

Madame Cottard shows up with force in Madame Swann at Home. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Madame Cottard is included in Swann's plan to invite the Cottards to meet the Duchesse de Vendôme.

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

This is the story's dramatic climax because it marks the psychological rupture where the narrator’s intellectu…

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