Class relations in Proust: treatment and mistreatment of "servants"

After Proust eats the madeleine, or more accrately after he sips the tea (in which he's dipped the madeleine) his memories of Combray unfurl, cascade over him (and us) - as he memorably puts it, they unfold and become palpable like a Japanese paper game in which the paper when soaked opens up as birds, trees, etc. - kind of like today's pop-up sponges or sillystring bracelets ? - and then we enter Combray (sp?) - long descriptions of he aunt Leonie's house where the P. family would arrive at Easter and stay for some indeterminate time - Leonie an well-known invalid and hypochondriac who kept to two rooms, obviously a foreshadowing of Proust's own famous retreat to the corklined room where he writes the very words we are reading - and we begin to see the relation between Leonie and her maid/servant/slave I'd practically say, Francoise, who later becomes the servant in the P. household in Paris. Proust's sense of class relations is a major theme throughout the Recherche, and we seen an important set of interactions here: the young P. given the task, by his mother, of extending his hand to Francoise and giving her a five-franc tip - one of the many actions by the bourgeoisie or aristocracy that they see as kind and generous but in fact is incredibly demeaning and condescending. Leonie's treatment or mistreatment of Francoise is horrible, at least by today's standards, but it's all just expected: bring me this, do this, do that, and the P. family at least has the virtue of feeling love and affection for Francoise - but perhaps that makes their treatment of her even worse? Leonie, for all her mistreatment, engages in hilarious dialog with Francoise in order to elicit from her all the Combray gossip about who's visiting, who's new in town. Answer: nobody.