Houssaye, Arsène 17, 59, 122, 126, 140
Hugo, Victor 13, 137
Huguet, Dr 284
Hydropathes, Les 217
Idylle saphique (novel) 270
Impressionism 106–8
Indochina 172–4, 177–86, 212 see also Annam; Tonkin
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique 116
Isola (novel) 34, 130–5, 137, 147, 151, 269
characters portrayed in 172
quoted in court 194–5, 208
quotes from 19–20, 21, 50–1, 130–1, 279, 283
Zola perusal of 142
Italy 64–5
Jacquet, Gustave 161–2
Janet, Paul 198
japonaiseries 118
Jaquet, Gustave 116
Jardin d’Acclimatation 223
Jockey Club 94–5
John II, King 279
Josephine, Empress 108–9, 291
Journal Officiel, Le 183–4
journalists 123–6
Judic, Anna 141
Juillerat, P. 96
Jullemier, Lucien 143, 196–201, 284, 287
Junck, Major 266–7
Kergaradec, Alexandre-Camille-Jules-Marie Le Jumeau de 172–4, 177, 213
Lady of the Camellias, The (film) 294
Lady of the Camellias, The (novel) 122–3, 132
L’Assommoir (novel) 135, 138–9, 141, 151
Lafayette, Andrée 292, 293–5
Lagrené, Edmond, Comte de 84
Lala, Maman 249
Lamballe, Jobert de 53, 94
Laporte, Edmond 140
Lasalle, Albert de 42
Latin Quarter 26–7
Laurent, Mery 167
Léa-Lini 59
Lébre, M. 207–8
Léon, Léonie 175–7, 210–11
Leopold II, King of Belgium 247
‘Les Arts Incohérents’ 217–20
lesbianism 122, 140, 239–41, 246, 256–7, 270
Letessier, Caroline 140
Lettres à Nana (book) 215–16
Lévy, Jules 217, 219
Lièvre, Édouard 103
lingères (linen maids) 7, 9, 12
literature, feminine 120
locomotor ataxia 164
Longchamp 96, 223
lorettes 25, 27–8
Loubet, Émile 268
Louis-Philippe I 9, 218
Louvre, the 296
Lubomirski, Prince 78–80
Mac-Mahon, Marquis Charles de 254
magistracy 214
Maizeroy, René 165
Majorelle, Louis 278
Malmaison 109
Manet, Édouard 96, 106–11, 115, 164–5, 169
Valtesse and 164–7
see also Balcony, The; Nana (painting); Olympia
Marat, Jean-Paul 180
Marie Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess 226
Marquesse see Tremblay, Emilie
marriage
civil 168–9
importance 51–2
Mars, Mlle 117
Marx, Adrien 89, 91
Maupassant, Guy de 135, 139, 220, 227
Maurier, George du 293, 294
Mégard, Eva 235
Meilhac, Henri 254
Meissonier, Ernest 100, 113, 160
Meldola, Camille 20–1, 33–4, 103, 127–8, 195–6
Emilie Delabigne incident 206–9
Meldola, Louis 103
Menton 226, 229, 255
Mercey, Louise 99
Meyerbeer, Giacomo 45
middle age 205
migration to Paris 4–5, 11
Millaud, Albert 68, 71–2, 77
Millaud, Moïse 68
Mirbeau, Octave 82, 121
Miroy, Léontine 138, 232
mirror 117
misogyny 120
Mitchell, Robert 63
Mogador, Céleste 48, 121, 130
Monaco 228, 231 see also Monte Carlo
Monet, Claude 109, 163
Monin, Dr 243
Monte Carlo 226, 228–32, 236, 295
casino 229–31, 236
opera house 229
see also Villa des Aigles
Montmartre, bars 245–6
Moreau, Mathurin 168
Morisot, Berthe 108, 111
Morny, Duc de 45
mother–child bond 196, 198
moving pictures 261
Musée de l’Armée 280
Musée des arts décoratifs 296
Musée de Cluny 296
Musée de Luxembourg 296
Musée de Versailles 296
Nana (novel) 44, 96, 138–55, 165, 240
Nana (painting) 165
Napias, Maxime 193–6, 198, 207–9
Napoleon I, Emperor (Napoleon Bonaparte) 35, 76, 92
Napoleon III, Emperor (Louis Napoleon) 16, 69, 82, 98, 275, 290
Napoleonic Code (1804) 240–1
Neuville, Alphonse de 160
‘new woman’ 239
Nice 70–3, 225–9, 231, 232, 236, 252
Nicolas II, Tsar (future) 169–70
Notre-Dame de Lorette 23, 25–6
novelists 120–3, 130
objets d’art 117–18
Offenbach, Herminie 59, 60, 65–6
Offenbach, Jacques 38–42, 54–5, 159
affairs 59–62
Valtesse and 54, 56–8, 59, 60–6, 138
see also Fantasio; Orpheus in the Underworld; Princesse de Trébizonde, La; Romance à la Rose, La
Ohnet, Georges 151, 153
Olympia (painting) 107
O’Monroy, Richard 107, 124–5, 126, 169, 274–6, 280, 285
Opéra-Comique 224–5
Opéra Garnier 102
Orpheus in the Underworld (operetta) 40, 41–2, 151
Oswald, François 153–4
Païva, La 210
Palais de Justice 192–3
Panama Scandal 263–4
Pâquerette see Delabigne, Julia-Pâquerette
Parent-Duchâtelet, Alexandre 23–4, 239–40
Paris, siege 69–73
Parisienne, la 4–5, 17, 89–90
Parker, Michael 295
Passing Regiment, The (painting) 114, 160
paternity searches 213–14, 215
patronymics, invented 90
Pays, Mlle 268
Pearl, Cora 66–7, 78, 92, 151, 272–3
Percher, Jules Hippolyte, see Alis, Harry
Persia, Shah of 234
Pezzela (painter) 296
Philip, Prince (Duke of Edinburgh) 295
photography 161
Phryne 185
pigeon shoot 231, 236
Pille, Henri 218
Plaine Monceau 249, 251
Plessis, Marie du 90, 92, 215
pogroms 265
police surveillance of Valtesse 85, 99, 171
porcelain 117–18
Portraits of the Century exhibition 163–4
portraiture 161
Portugal 269
Pougy, Liane de 237, 247–59
bequest from Valtesse 291
Émilienne d’Alençon and 256–7
godmother to Margot 293
marriage 283
pearl trademark 254
Valtesse and 237, 249, 251–9, 263, 268–9
and Valtesse’s death 285–6, 288
see also Idylle saphique
Pourpe, Armand 249
poverty 22, 24, 29–30
Prince of Wales see Edward, Prince of Wales
Princesse de Trébizonde, La (opera) 54–7, 59, 62, 68
prostitution 11–12, 22–6
Raffaelli, Jean-François, 116
Rat Mort, Le 246
‘Ray of Gold’ 93
Réforme, La (newspaper) 213
Regnault, Alice (Augustine-Alexandrine Toulet) 122, 140
Reine Soleil, une fille de la glèbe (novel) 221–2
Réjane 158–9, 281–2
Rennes 266
Republic (Third), formation of 175
/> Rivet, Gustave 213–14
Riviera 225–32, 234–7, 255, 269
Rivière, Commander 212
Robert, Jean 1–2
Rochebrune 228
Rolla (painting) 162
Romance de la Rose, La (operetta) 57–8, 62
Roqueplan, Nestor 25
Rothschild, Gustave de 78
Roybet, Ferdinand 117
Rozerot, Jeanne 145
Rue Blanche 189, 199
apartment 81, 86
Rue de Chazelles 249, 250–1
Rue de Douai 268
Rue François Miron 217
Rue Frochot 246
Rue Paradis-Poissonière 10–11
Rue Pigalle 245–6
Rue de la Terrasse 100
Rue Vivienne 219
Sagan, Prince de 86–7, 94–6, 99–100, 102
Saint-Félix, Comtesse de 242
Sainte-Maxime 228
Salle du Théâtre Comte 39
Salon (Paris) 106–7, 161
Sand, George 120–1, 130
Sandherr, Colonel 265
saphisme 240 see also lesbianism
Schneider, Hortense 58, 62, 63, 66–7, 141
Scholl, Aurélien 150–1
Schwabb (footman) 127, 201–2
Schwartzkoppen, Max von 264
science 216
sea bathing 229
secondary education for girls 239
Sévigné, Madame de 135
Soëge, M. 38
Sormani, M. 253
Statistical Section 265
Stevens, Alfred 110–11
Strauss, Émile 143
stud farms 214–15
students 26–7
suicides 230
T., Monsieur 8
Taxil, Léo 240
tea 241–2
telephones 216, 261, 262
theatre 35–46
backstage 44–5
Théâtre de l’Ambigu 155
Théâtre Français 126
Théâtre Saint-Germain 35, 37–8
Théâtre des Variétés 36, 141
Thiers, Adolphe 75–6
Three Musketeers, The (film) 294
tigers 184
Tonkin 172, 174, 180–1, 182–6, 211–13, 215
Toulet, Augustine-Alexandrine (Alice Regnault) 122, 140
tradition 29, 263
trains 226
treason 264
Treaty of Turin 225
Tremblay, Emilie (née Delabigne) (Marquesse) 72, 188–90, 199, 206, 287
Trilby 293–4
Trocadéro 233
Trochu, General 75
Tsarevitch Reviewing the Troops, The (painting) 296
Tu Duc, Emperor of Annam 174, 182, 183
Tuileries Palace 76
Una, E. 288, 289, 290
unemployment 16
‘Union of Artists’ 118, 193, 205, 215
Uzès, Duc Jacques d’ 247
Varney, Alphonse 41
Vauthier, Anna 205
Victoria, Queen 226, 236
Villa des Aigles (Monte Carlo) 231–2, 234–5, 246, 268–9, 277
Ville-d’Avray 97–9, 171, 176–7, 194, 224, 243–4, 271
bequests from Valtesse 296
bed moved to 277, 278
see also Chapelle-du-Roy, La
violet, as trademark flower 92, 144, 286
Voilquin, Suzanne 20
Voltaire, Le (newspaper) 150, 152
Waldeck-Rousseau, Pierre 82
Wilde, Oscar. 268
Wolff, Albert 133, 134, 191, 202–3
Worth, Charles 137
Xau, Fernand 215
Zola, Émile 19, 135, 137–55, 169
article in Le Figaro 185–6
and Dreyfus affair 265–6
as gastronome 143–4
Valtesse and 138, 141–9, 151, 152–5, 185–6
see also L’Assommoir; Nana (novel)
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