Countess Élaine Marie Joseph Charlotte de Greffulhe (19 March 1882 – 11 February 1958), who became the Duchess of Gramont by marriage, was a French aristocrat.

She was the daughter, and heiress,[1] of Count Henry Greffulhe and his wife, Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay[2] (said to be a model for the Duchess of Guermantes in Marcel Proust’s novel, À la recherche du temps perdu).

[5] A rare film clip may show Proust (in bowler hat and gray coat) at her wedding in 1904.

[6] Proust’s wedding gift to the groom was apparently a revolver in a leather case inscribed with verses from her childhood poems.

[7] Czar Nicholas II of Russia sent her a gift in honor of their 1904 marriage.