
A visit in Paris rue de la ferronerie, where Henri IV, had been assassinated in 1610 In Search of Time P; about Proust, Henri IV, my mother and I
[The narrator's mother speaking of her own mother ] You remember too, it shocked her that for centuries past daughters of the House of Gramont who have been perfect saints have borne the name Corisande in memory of Henri IV’s connexion with one of their ancestresses. These are things that may happen also, perhaps, among the middle classes, but we conceal them better. The Fugitive