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When it was first suggested we invite M. de Norpois to dinner, my mother commented that it was a pity Professor Cottard was absent from Paris and that she herself had quite lost touch with Swann, either of whom the former ambassador would have been pleased to meet; to which my father replied that although a guest as eminent as Cottard, a scientific man of some renown, would always be an asset at one's dinner-table, the Marquis de Norpois would be bound to see Swann, with his showing-off and his name-dropping, as nothing but a vulgar swank, 'a rank outsider', as he would put it.
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Mme Swann, Mme de Villeparisis, Mme Bontemps, Mme Cottard, Mme Verdurin, Mme de Sévigné, First President, New Year's Day, Princess of Luxembourg, Faubourg Saint-Germain, Bois de Boulogne, Nissim Bernard, Mlle de Stermaria, Duchesse de Guermantes, Mlle Simonet, Mme Elstir, Select Committee, Duchesse de Vendôme, Comte de Paris, King Theodosius, Mme Blatin, Aunt Léonie, Jockey Club, Baron de Charlus, Lady Israels
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