As for the year of its appearance, the book itself contains no publication date, and sources, such as library catalogues, variously give 1914 and 1915.]
53. In The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, the princess (not countess) Trépof presents Sylvestre Bonnard with the manuscript of The Golden Legend, which he has been coveting, secreted within a hollowed-out log. Proust cites the same passage in a letter of May 1913 to Mme Schéikevitch (Correspondance, vol. 12, p. 173).
54. The compatriot is perhaps Walter Berry, President of the Franco-American Chamber of Commerce and a friend of Proust.
55. The source of the phrase is in fact the 11th-century monk Raoul Glaber.
56. [Because Proust refers to the death of Clary’s mother, which occurred March 11, 1917, and because Clary himself, who died May 8, 1918, is evidently still alive, this letter must have been written sometime between those two dates. Proust had been out of touch with Blanche, whom he mentions here, before April 10, 1918. He is presumably back in touch with him if he contemplated sending him the carnations. A possible date for this letter, therefore, would be sometime in the month extending from mid-April to mid-May.]
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Acta Sanctorum (Jean Bolland) 39, 77n50
Aeneid, The 73n19
Agostinelli, Alfred 71n12
Aix-la-Chapelle 9
Albaret, Céleste viii, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 69n1, 75n33
Amiens 40
Annecy 32, 34, 60
Antoine (concierge) 49
Argonne 23, 74n27
‘Artémis’ (Nerval) 73n24
Arthème Fayard 71n14
Arvers, Félix x, 37, 63, 76n42
Au Jardin des Roses (florist) 65
Avenue de l’Alma 74n31
Avenue George V 74n31
Bagnoles-de-l’Orne x, 5, 70n7
Balbec xiii, 64, 73n26
Bamberg 40
Baudelaire, Charles 76n45
Beethoven, Ludwig von ix, 37
Bernard, Saint 41
Bernhardt, Sarah xii
Berry, Walter 79n54
Bibliothèque nationale de France 73n20
Bizet, Georges 69n4
Blanche, Jacques-Emile 17, 42, 72n18, 79n56
Bolland, Jean 77n50
Bollandistes 39, 77n50
Brach, Paul xiv
Brailowsky, Alexander xiv
Bray, Barbara 69n1
Cabourg x, 6, 14, 64, 65
Calmann-Lévy 70n8, 77n48
Cendrillon (Massenet) 76n46
Ce qu’ils ont détruit (A. Demar-Latour) xi, 78n52
Champs-Elysées, Avenue des 74n31
Chartres 40
Clary, Angèle (mother of Joachim) 42–3, 79n56
Clary, Joachim ix, xiii, xvii, 13–14,15, 23, 25, 26–27, 34, 37, 38, 42–3, 71n14, 75n34, 76n43, 79n56
Combourg 5
conseil de contre-réforme 70n11
Côte Fleurie 64
Crainquebille (A. France) 39, 78n51
Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, The (A. France, Pierre Frondaie) 39, 40, 77n50, 78n53
d’Aubigné, Agrippa 21, 73n24
Daudet, Lucien 17, 23, 38, 71n14, 72n18
da Vinci, Leonardo xi, 40
Deauville xiii, 14
Debussy, Claude 73n25
Demar-Latour, A. xi, 78n52
de Pourtalès, Count Jacques 74n32
Dreyfus, Robert 58
Duteurtre, Benoît 76n46
Éditions practiques et documentaires 78n52
Éditions Robert Laffont 69n1
‘El Desdichado’ (Nerval) 73n24
Emler, Paul vii
E. Sansot 77n49
Eugénie, Empress 71n14
Faisans, Léon 13, 72n16
Fénelon, Bertrand de xi, 23, 74n27
Feyder, Jacques 78n51
Figaro, Le 8, 70n9
Flowers of Evil, The (Baudelaire) 36–7, 76n45
France, Anatole 38, 77n48 & n50, 78n51 & n53
Franck, César ix, 37, 55, 77n47
Franco-American Chamber of Commerce 79n54
Frondaie, Pierre 77n50
Gagey, Dr Emile and Mme 47, 49, 51, 55, 56, 57
Gandolff, Léopold 76n46
Gide, André 16, 20, 57
Giotto di Bondone ix, 31
Glaber, Raoul 79n55
Golden Legend, The 40, 78n53
Gospel according to John 71n13
Grand Hôtel de Cabourg 64, 65
Grasset 73n20
Greffulhe, Henri, Count 75n33
Guitry, Lucien 78n51
Hahn, Reynaldo 9, 23, 36, 54–5, 56–7, 58, 70n10, 74n27, 76n44
Halévy, Geneviève. See Straus, Geneviève
Haussmann, Boulevard vii, xiv, 8, 32–3, 34, 45, 48, 49, 60, 67
Hayman, Laure vii
Helleu, Paul 42
Heugel 70n8
Hôpital Beaujon 72n16
Hôtel d’Albe 25, 74n31
Houlgate 64–5
Hugo, Victor 69n2
Illiers-Combray 46, 53
Impressions That Remained – Memoirs of Ethel Smyth 71n14
Jouy, Jules 76n46
Kafka, Franz 48
Katz, Mme 47
Kolb, Philip xiv
La Béraudière, Mme de 26, 75n33
La Bible d’Amiens (Ruskin) 40, 56
Lamartine, Alphonse de x
La Nouvelle Revue Francaise xii, 16, 18, 20, 72n17, 73n26
La terre (Jules Jouy) 76n46
Legras powders 47
L’Eldorado 76n46
Le Nouvel Observateur 64
Lerossignol, M. 64–5
Le ruban dénoué (Reynaldo Hahn) 54, 76n44
Les Béatitudes (Franck) ix, 37, 77n47
Les Chimères (Nerval) 73n24
Les contemplations (Hugo) 69n2
Les offrandes blessés: Elégies guerrières (Robert de Montesquiou) 77n49
Les tragiques (Agrippa d’Aubigné) 73n24
Le Vésinet 70n7
L’île du soleil couchant (Joachim Clary) 71n14
Lives of the Saints. See Acta Sanctorum
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 63
Louvain 40
Maeterlinck, Maurice 73n23 & n25
‘Major, the,’ 24–5, 28–9, 74n30, 75n35
Mallarmé, Stéphane 73n23
Mametz 74n27
Mante-Proust, Suzy xiv
Maupassant, Guy de vii
Mauriac-Dyer, Nathalie 70n11
Mes heures perdues (Félix Arvers) 76n42
Monbrison, Jacqueline de. See Rehbinder, Countess Wladimir
Montesquiou, Count Robert de xii, 2, 38, 55, 69n6, 71n14, 77n49
Morand, Paul 57
Musée Carnavalet 53
Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits xvii, 64
Nerval, Gérard de 21, 73n24
Noailles, Countess Anna de 21, 53, 58, 73n22
Normandy 5, 64, 70n7
Notre Dame 41
Our Hearts (Maupassant) vii
Pallu, Alphonse 74n28
Pallu, Marie. See Williams, Marie
Parsifal (Wagner) ix
Pelléas and Mélisande (Debussy & Maeterlinck) 21, 32, 73n25, 76n40
Pernolet, Arthur 56, 57
Poulet Quartet 55
‘Prométhée triomphant’ (Reynaldo Hahn & Paul Reboux) 9, 70n10
Proust Museum 46
Proust, Robert xiv, 12, 30, 38–9
Proust Society 46
Reboux, Paul 70n10
Régnier, Marie de 21, 58
Rehbinder, Countess Wladimir 26, 74n32
Reims xi, xv, 40–1, 59, 78n52
Reszke, Edouard de 76n39
Reszke, Jean de ix, 31, 76n39
Rostand, Maurice 17, 55, 72n18
Rubinstein, Ida 38, 77n49
Rue du Colisée 26
Rue Galilée 26
Ruskin, John 7, 29, 56, 59
Sagesse (Verlaine) 73n24, 75n38
Sainte-Chapelle 32, 60
Schéikevitch, Marie 78n53
Schwickerath, Eberhard 70n10
Smyth, Ethel 71n14
Stones of Venice, The (Ruskin) xi, 41, 59
Straus, Geneviève vii, ix, 1, 38, 69n1 & n4
Terre, Mme 30, 32, 75n37, 76n41 & n46
Théâtre Antoine 77n50
Théâtre de la Renaissance 78n51
Théâtre du Châtelet 76n46
Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt 77n49
Thérésa (Emma Valladon) 37, 57, 76n46
Trépof, Princess 39, 40, 78n53
Trouville 14
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis 70n11
Vauquois 74n27
Verlaine, Paul ix, 2, 21, 30, 73n24, 75n38
Versailles 48
Virgil 73n19
von Otter, Anne Sofie 54
Williams, Doctor, passim
Williams, Marie, passim
Williams, son, passim
Wolff Agency 32, 76n40
Guermantes Way, The x, xiii, 72n17, 73n20
In Search of Lost Time x, 4–5, 59, 69n6, 71n14, 73n21
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower xiii, 72n17, 73n20 & n26
Pastiches 70n9
Pleasures and Days 7, 70n8, 77n48
Portraits of Painters 7, 70n8
Swann’s Way xii, 16, 18, 70n9, 72n18
Time Found Again xiii, 71n14
Charlus, Baron de xii, xiii, 18, 69n6, 71n14
Périgot, Joseph x
Saint-Loup, Robert de xii
Simonet, Albertine xiii
Swann, Charles xii, 18
Swann, Odette vii, xii, 18
Tante Léonie 46
JEAN-YVES TADIÉ was born in 1936 and is an internationally recognized Proust specialist and the author of, among other books, Marcel Proust: A Life. He taught at Oxford University and until his retirement was a professor at the Sorbonne, Paris.
LYDIA DAVIS is a prize-winning translator of French literature and the author of The Collected Stories; one novel, The End of the Story; and six short-story collections, the most recent of which is Can’t and Won’t. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.
Marie Williams, born in 1885 as Marie Pallu, lived at 102 Boulevard Haussman with her second husband, an American dentist called Dr Williams. Her letters to Proust have been lost, so we know little about her. She had a son by her first husband, whom she’d divorced in 1908. She left 102 Boulevard Haussmann in 1919 and married a third time, to the pianist Alexander Brailowsky. She took her own life in 1931.
Renowned for his epic novel in seven volumes, In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1871, he lived at 102 Boulevard Haussmann between 1907 and 1919 and it was here that he wrote most of In Search of Lost Time.
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