CHABRIER, Emmanuel, French composer (1841–94). Quoted by Mme Verdurin: V 420.
CHAIX D’EST-ANGE, French lawyer and politician (1800–76): III 813.
CHAMBORD, Comte de, Pretender to the throne of France under the name Henri V (1820–83): III 389; IV 691; V 37 (allusion to Frohsdorf, where he lived in exile from 1841 until his death).
CHAMISSO, German writer (1781–1838), author of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: II 482.
CHAPLIN, Charles Josuah, French society portrait-painter (1825–91): VI 127.
CHARCOT, Dr Jean Martin, French neurologist (1825–93): III408; IV 378, 487, 663.
CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste, French painter (1699–1779): II 309. Elstir and Chardin: III 574–75 (cf. VI 128); V 848.
CHARLES VI, King of France (136&-1422): I 81.
CHARLES X, King of France (1757–1836): IV 144, 691; V 42.
CHARTRES, Duc de, grandson of Louis-Philippe and younger brother of the Comte de Paris (1840–1910). Friend of Swann: I 441; II 125 (cf. IV 104, 106). His attitude to the Dreyfus Case: III 327–28. M. de Bréauté lunches with him: 590. Charlus his cousin: IV 691.
CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René de, French writer and statesman (1768–1848). His genius; “marvellous pages of Chateaubriand”: II 72, 127. Bergotte’s opinion of him: 177. Mme de Villeparisis’s reminiscences of him: 394, 410–11. Quoted by M: 410–11. His ready-made speech on moonlight: 411 (cf. V 550). Chez Mme Récamier at L’Abbaye-aux-Bois: IV 373. Attacked by Brichot, defended by Charlus: 612–14. Local legends related in the Mémoires d’Outre-tombe: V 36. His writings “insufficiently confidential” (Sainte-Beuve quoted by Brichot): 442. The moon in Chateaubriand: 550. M. de Guermantes finds traces of his “antiquated prose” in M’s Figaro article: 796. Reflexions on the Mémoires d’Outre-tombe) examples of involuntary memory such as will inspire M’s own book: VI 129.
CHTELET, Mme du, friend and patroness of Voltaire (1706–49): IV 373.
CHERBULIEZ, Victor, French novelist and Academician (1829–99). Norpois compares him favourably to Bergotte: III 299.
CHEVREUSE, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de (1600–79), formerly married to the Connétable de Luynes: III 269.
CHEVREUSE, Charles-Honoré d’Albert, Duc de (1646–1712), son of the Duc de Luynes and grandson of the Connétable: III 597 (cf. 741).
CHOISEUL, Duchesse de. See Praslin.
CHOPIN, Frédéric, Polish composer (1810–49). A prelude and a polonaise played at Mme de Saint-Euverte’s; Mme de Cambremer’s delight in his “long, sinuous” phrases: I 471, 476 (cf. II 507). Once played in Mme de Villeparisis’s father’s château: II 392. Despised by Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin, and worshipped by her mother-in-law: IV 288–94, 301, 468, 509. Charlus missed hearing him play: 554–55.
CLAPISSON, Louis, French composer (1808–66): I 428.
CLAUDEL, Paul, French poet and diplomat (1868–1955): II 7, 475; III 444.
CLAUSEWITZ, General Karl von, German military theorist (1780–1831): VI 130.
CLEMENCEAU, Georges, French statesman (1841–1929): III 332, 402; praised by Swann: 798–99; his Dreyfusism unknown to the younger generation: VI 131.
CLÉMENTINE, Princesse, daughter of Louis-Philippe, mother of Ferdinand of Bulgaria by her marriage to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: III 328.
CLERMONT-TONNERRE, Duchesse Emilie de. Author of a book on country food: III 690; IV 557.
COMBES, Emile, French politician (1835–1921) who introduced anti-clerical laws when Prime Minister between 1902 and 1905: VI 132.
CONDÉ, Louis II, Prince de (known as “the Great”) (1621–86): III 780; IV 483. Charlus and Brichot on his alleged homosexuality: V 405–6.
CONSTANTINE, King of Greece 1913–22, known familiarly as “Tino”: VI 133.
CONTI, Louis-Armand de Bourbon, Prince de, nephew of the Great Condé (1661–1685). His marriage to a bastard daughter of Louis XIV (Mlle de Blois) cited in connexion with the marriage of Mile d’Oloron and the young Cambremer: V 905.
CONTI, François-Louis de Bourbon, Prince de, brother of the above (1664–1709). Echoes of Saint-Simon’s portrait of him in Charlus’s treatment of his menservants: III 758. An invert?: V 406. Saint-Simon praises his “marvellous intelligence,” and in particular his knowledge of genealogy: VI 134.
COPPÉE, François, French poet (1842–1908): III 692.
COQUELIN, Constant, French actor (1841–1909): I 102. Seen in the Bois de Boulogne: I 595–96. His mulatto friend: II 149. M. Bloch senior’s irony at his expense: 486. Plays beginners’ roles in gala performances: IV 659. His view of Molière’s Le Misanthrope: VI 135.
CORNEILLE, Pierre, French dramatist (1606–84). Quotation from La Mort de Pompée: I 35; II 485. Quotation from Polyeucte, attributed by Bloch to Voltaire: II 628. Françoise uses the word ennui in the Cornelian sense: III 15. Political dissertations in his tragedies: 260. His “intermittent, restrained” romanticism: 753.
CORNÉLY, Jean-Joseph, French journalist (1845–1907). Although a monarchist, campaigned for the revision of the Dreyfus trial: III 799.
COROT, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, French painter (1796–1875). Swann owns one of his paintings: I 28, 33.
COUTURE, Thomas, French painter (1815–79). Allusion to his picture Les Romains de la Décadence: V 382.
COYSEVOX, Antoine, French sculptor (1640–1720): III 264.
CRÉBILLON fils, licentious novelist (1707–77): III 371.
DAGNAN-BOUVERET, academic French painter (1852–1929) admired by Norpois: III 299.
DANTE (Dante Alighieri), Italian poet (1265–1321). Strainings and contortions of water-lilies in the Vivonne reminiscent of the “peculiar torments” of the damned in the Inferno: I 238. The Verdurins and their “little clan” the “nethermost circle of Dante” (Swann): 408. Reading-room of the Grand Hotel alternately the Paradiso and the Inferno: II 329; III 270; VI 136.
DARIUS, King of Persia: II 107, 483; III 254; V 53.
DARU, Pierre Bruno, Quartermaster-General of Napoleon’s Grand Army and later Academician (1767–1829): II 395.
DARWIN, Charles, British scientist (1809–82): III 486, 709; IV 40–41; VI 137.
DAUDET, Alphonse, French writer (1840–97). Mention of Tartarin de Tarascón: V 257.
DAUDET, Léon, French journalist and novelist, son of the above (1867–1942): II 8; V 398; VI 138. (See the dedication to The Guermantes Way.)
DAUDET, Mme Léon. See Pampille.
DAVID, Jacques-Louis, French painter (1748–1825): VI 139.
DAVIOUD, Gabriel (1823–81), architect of the Trocadéro: V 217.
DEBUSSY, Claude, French composer (1862–1918). Mme de Cambremer’s enthusiasm for Pelléas: IV 285–93 (cf. 300, 467, 481). Debussy and Wagner: 290–91. On the “wrong” side in the Dreyfus Case: 384. Morel plays Meyerbeer for Debussy: 481. M. de Chevregny finds Pelléas trivial: 662. The street-criers’ cadences remind M of Pelléas: V 147.
DECAMPS, Alexandre-Gabriel, French orientalist painter (1803–60). Bloch as exotic-looking as a Jew in a Decamps painting: III 253. War-time Paris reminds Charlus of the Orient of Decamps: VI 140.
DECAZES, Duc, minister and favourite of Louis XVIII. Mme de Villeparisis’s grandfather reluctant to invite him to a ball: III 256.
DEFFAND, Mme du (1697–1780). Famous for her salon: II 232.
DEGAS, Edgar, French painter (1834–1917). Mme de Cambremer’s enthusiasm for him: IV 285. His admiration for Poussin: 287. Nissim Bernard’s type of “dancer” still lacks a Degas: 328–30.
DELACROIX, Eugène, French painter (1798–1863). War-time Paris reminds Charlus of his oriental scenes: VI 141. Loathed by Mme de Guermantes: 495.
DELAROCHE, Paul, French painter (1797–1856). Reference by M. de Guermantes to his Princes in the Tower: III 686.
DELAUNAY, Comédie-Française actor (1826–1903): I 102; VI 142.
DELCASSÉ, Théophile, French statesman, architect of the Entente Cordiale (1852–1923): V 487.
DELTOUR, Nicolas-Félix, Inspector-General of Secondary Educatio
n, author of Principles of Style and Composition (1822–1904). Recommended by Andrée as an authority to quote in exams: II 675.
DERBY, Lord (Edward Henry Smith Stanley), British statesman (1826–93). Cited on the Irish question: III 238.
DÉROULÈDE, Paul, ultra-nationalist French politician and poet (1846–1914): VI 143.
DESCARTES, René, French philosopher (1596–1650): V 465 (cf. II 437).
DESCHANEL, Paul, French statesman (1855–1922): II 8; III 286; IV 197; VI 144.
DESHOULIÈRES, Mme, French poetess (1638–94): III 674.
DESJARDINS, Paul, French critic and philosopher (1859–1940). Quoted by Legrandin: I 167–8.
DETAILLE, Edouard, painter of military scenes (1848–1912): III 588; IV 47–48.
DETHOMAS, Maxime, French painter (1867–1929). His “superb studies” of Venice: V 848.
DIAGHILEV, Serge (1872–1929). Impresario of the Russian Ballet: IV 194, 420–21.
DIANE DE POITIERS, favourite of Henri II: IV 15.
DIANTI, Laura, Italian Renaissance beauty, second wife of Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara. Albertine’s hair compared to hers during the game of “ferret” (Proust was evidently thinking of Titian’s Young Woman at her Toilet in the Louvre, for which Laura was then thought to have been the sitter): II 683.
DIEULAFOY, Professor Georges, French physician (1839–1911). Called in to attend M’s grandmother on her death-bed: III 459–60, 466–68.
DIEULAFOY, Mme Jeanne, French archaeologist (1851–1916): II 483.
DOSTOIEVSKY, Feodor, Russian novelist (1821–81). “Abominated” by Bergotte: II 177. The Dostoievsky side of Mme de Sévigné: 315 (cf. V 508–10). His novels “hoarded” by Albertine: V 432. His “new kind of beauty”: 508–13. Charlus and Dostoievsky: VI 145. Rasputin’s murder a Dostoievsky incident in real life: 126–27. His way of telling a story: 366.
DOUCET, Dress designer. Approved of by Elstir: II 655; and by Mme de Guermantes: V 47, 76.
DOUDAN, Ximenès, French writer, secretary to the Duc de Broglie (1800–72): II 418; III 372.
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan, British writer (1859–1930). “It s pure Sherlock Holmes”: V 615.
DREYFUS, Alfred. See under Dreyfus Case in Index of Themes.
DRIANT, Colonel, right-wing politician and military commentator (under the pseudonym Capitaine Danrit) during the Dreyfus Case: III 332.
DRUMONT, EDOUARD, ANTI-SEMITIC POLITICIAN AND JOURNALIST (1844–1917): III 393; V 46.
DU CAMP, Maxime, French man of letters (1822–94): II 7.
DUGUAY-TROUIN, Rene, French sailor (1673–1736). His statue in Balbec: II 330; IV 232.
DUMAS fils, Alexandre, French novelist and playwright (1802–70). Reference to his play Les Danicheff: I 304; and to Francillon: 363–64; II 157. Admired by Mme de Guermantes: III 679 (cf. VI 146).
DUMONT D’URVILLE, Jules, French navigator (1790–1842): I 488.
DUPANLOUP, Monseigneur, French prelate, orator and polemicist (1802–78): III 259; IV 162; VI 147.
EDWARD VII, King of England (1841–1910). Mme de Guermantes gives a reception for him and his wife: III 588, 619. Reviled by Prince Von, defended by Mme de Guermantes: 723–24. At Guermantes: V 794.
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE, wife of Henry II Plantagenet, King of England (1122–1204): II 683.
ELIOT, George, English novelist (1819–80). Disliked by Bergotte: II 177. Andrée translates one of her novels: 714. Her name crops up in M’s dreams: V 155.
ELISABETH, Madame, sister of Louis XVI: III 770.
ELISABETH, Empress of Austria, daughter of Maximilian-Joseph, Duke of Bavaria, sister of Sophie, Duchesse d’Alençon and Maria, Queen of Naples: III 252. Allusion to her death (in a riding accident) in 1898: 698. Referred to in connexion with the Queen of Naples’ visit to the Verdurins’ musical soirée: V 328, 414.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, American philosopher (1803–82). Subject OF conversation at lunch with Rachel: III 377.
ENESCO, Georges, Romanian violinist (1881–1955): V 383.
ENGALLY, Speranza, Italian opera singer: IV 486.
ESTE, Isabella d’ (1474–1539): III 719.
ESTERHAZY, Major, one of the principal actors in the Dreyfus Case: III 135, 322–23, 326.
EUGÈNE, Prince, Austrian general (1663–1736). An invert?: V 406.
EUGÉNIE, Empress, wife of Napoleon III (1826–1920): IV 142–43.
EULENBURG, Prince, friend and adviser of the Kaiser William II. Reference to a homosexual scandal in which he was involved: IV 471.
FABRE, J-H, French entomologist (1823–1915): I 173; III 490 (allusion).
FAGON, Louis XIV’s doctor: VI 148.
FALKENHAUSEN, Frédéric Ludwig, General von (1869–1936): III 144.
FALLIERES, Armand, President of the Republic 1906–13: III 431.
FANTIN-LATOUR, Théodore, French painter (1836–1904). His flower paintings compared by Norpois to those of Mme de Villeparisis: III 371–72. Elstir his superior: VI 149.
FAURÉ, Gabriel, French composer (1845–1924). Charlus and Morel play his piano and violin sonata: IV 479–80 (cf. V 357). His melody Le Secret: V 731.
FAVART, Charles-Simon, French dramatist (1710–92). His comedy La Chercheuse d’Esprit discussed at the Verdurins’: IV 451–56.
FEB VRE, Frédéric, Comédie-Française actor (1835–1916): I 102; III 167.
FÉNELON, François de Salignac de la Mothe-, French writer and prelate (1651–1715). Brichot on his “curious” definition of intelligence: I 370; II 462. Mme Poussin pronounces his name Fénélon: IV 232.
FÉNELON, Comte Bertrand de. M’s “dearest friend”: IV 231–32.
FERRY, Jules, French statesman (1832–93): II 722.
FEYDEAU, Georges, French playwright (1862–1921). Allusion to La Dame de chez Maxim (“ce n’est pas mon père”): II 478; III 19; Allusion to L’Hôtel du libre échange: VI 150.
FLAUBERT, Gustave, French novelist (1821–80): II 157. “Bourgeois through and through,” according to Mme de Guermantes: III 643. His letters superior to his books, according to Mme d’Arpajon, who forgets his name: 670–71. Phrases of Flaubert in Montesquieu: IV 291. Morel and L’Education sentimentale: V 210. It was not affection for the bourgeoisie that made him choose the themes of Madame Bovary and L’Education sentimentale: VI 151.
FLORIAN, Jean-Pierre Claris de (1755–94). Author of one of the two fables which M de Cambremer knows: IV 427, 441.
FOCH, Marshal (1851–1929), Generalissimo of the Allied armies in 1918: VI 152.
FOIX, Catherine de, Queen of Navarre (1470–1517): III 568.
FONTANES, Louis, Marquis de, French writer and politician, friend of Chateaubriand (1757–1821): II 395; IV 587.
FORTUNY, Venetian dress designer. Elstir speaks of him to M and Albertine: II 653. Mme de Guermantes wears his dresses: V 37, 48 (cf. 497). Albertine covets them; how they evoke the Venice of Carpaccio and Titian: 497–500. M plans to buy one for Albertine: 237, and orders six: 531, 537–38. Albertine’s Fortuny dressing-gown and two coats: 499–500, 546. Reawakens M’s nostalgia for Venice: 555. M sees the original of one of Albertine’s Fortuny coats in a Carpaccio in the Accademia: 877.
FOUCHÉ, Joseph (1759–1820), Minister of Police under Napoleon and Louis XVIII: III 711.
FOULD, Achille, French politician (1844–1924), Minister of Finance under Napoleon III: III 171.
FRAGONARD, French painter (1732–1806): V 124.
FRANCE, Anatole, French writer (1844–1924). Quoted by Legrandin on the subject of the Normandy coast: I 183. A star of Mme Verdurin’s salon?: V 314. Sylvestre Bonnard cited by Brichot: 444. “Our sweet master of delicious scepticism” (Brichot): VI 153.
FRANCK, César, Franco-Belgian composer (1822–90): IV 119,479. M asks Morel to play some Franck, causing acute pain to Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin: 480; V 860.
FRANÇOIS I, King of France (1494–1547): I 1; III 640.
FRANZ-JOSEF, Emperor of Austria-Hungary (1830–1916). His “cousinly relations” with Charlus: III 389. Ch
arlus’s thoughts about him during the war: VI 154.
FREDERICK THE GREAT, King of Prussia (1712–86): III 144.
FREGOLI, Leopoldo, Italian mime (1867–1936): VI 155.
FROMENTIN, Eugène, French painter and writer (1820–76): III 445; VI 156.
GABRIEL, Jacques-Ange, architect of the palaces in the Place de la Concorde and of the Petit Trianon (1698–1782): II 83–84, 471.
GALLAND, Antoine, translator of the Arabian Nights (1646–1715): IV 318.
GALLÉ, Emile, artist in glass (1846–1904): II 522; III 537.
GALLIFET, General Marquis de, Minister of War 1899–1901: III 166; V 263; VI 157.
GALLI-MARIÉ, French opera singer (1840–1905): IV 486.
GAMBETTA, Léon, French statesman (1838–82). His funeral: I 304. Mme de Guermantes admires his letters: III 671.
GARNIER, Robert, French playwright (1544–90), author of Les Juives: II 673.
GARROS, Roland, French aviator (1888–1918): V 879.
GASQ-DESFOSSÉS, author of text-books for baccalauréat candidates published between 1886 and 1909: II 675.
GAUTIER, Théophile, French poet (1811–82). Allusion to his novel Le Capitaine Fracasse: IV 455; VI 158.
GENLIS, Mme de, woman of letters; governess to the future Louis-Philippe (1746–1830): V 511.
GEOFFRIN, Mme (1699–1777). Famous for her salon: III 569.
GÉRAULT-RICHARD, Socialist Deputy and Dreyfusard activist: III 330.
GÉRÔME, Jean-Léon, French painter and sculptor (1824–1904): II 109.
GHIRLANDAIO, Florentine painter (1449–98): Swann identifies M. de Palancy’s nose in one of his pictures: I 315.
GIOLITTI, Giovanni, Italian statesman (1842–1928). His name invoked by Norpois in conversation with Prince Foggi in Venice: V 861–62. Norpois calls Caillaux “the Giolitti of France”: VI 159.
GIORGIONE, Italian painter (c. 1478–1510): I 556–58; III 584. Mme Putbus’s maid “wildly Giorgionesque”: IV 129, 206; V 516–17.
GIOTTO, Italian painter (c. 1266–1337). The Vices and Virtues in the Arena Chapel in Padua; Swann gives M photographs of them; the pregnant housemaid resembles the figure of “Charity”: I 110–13, 169–72. M. de Palancy and his monocle remind Swann of the figure of “Injustice”: 465. M identifies Florence with the genius of Giotto: 554. The procession of the “little band” recalls Giotto: II 528. Albertine playing diabolo resembles his “Idolatry”: 637. The allegorical figures appear in M’s sleep: III 192. M and his mother visit the Arena Chapel: V 878–79.