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
WORKS AND CHARACTERS OF PROUST
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
About the Authors
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. He died in 1922.
SELECTED TRANSLATIONS OF LYDIA DAVIS
Maurice Blanchot: Death Sentence (1978) and other novels
Maurice Blanchot: The Gaze of Orpheus (1981, essays)
Michel Butor: The Spirit of Mediterranean Places (1986, travel essays)
Vivant Denon: No Tomorrow (1996)
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (2010)
Pierre Jean Jouve: Hélène (1993) and other novels
Michel Leiris: The Rules of the Game, vols 1, 2 & 3 (1991, 1997, 2017)
Marcel Proust: Swann’s Way (2002)
A. L. Snijders: Grasses and Trees (2016, from the Dutch)
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