CHARITY (James), pseudonym of Jacques L’Aumóne, pop singer, 137.
CHARLEMAGNE, 742–814, 467.
CHARLES I, King of England, 1600–1649, 69, 388.
CHARLES II, King of Spain, 1661–1700, 204.
CHARLOTTE, Henri Fresnel’s acting partner, 255–257.
Charny (Meuse), 33, 244.
CHAROLLES, a character in works by Marcel Gotlib, 160.
Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), 198, 237.
Chase Manhattan Bank, 280.
CHATEAUBRIAND (François-René de, viscount), French writer, 1768–1848, 292.
Château de la Muette (Paris), 120–123.
Château d’Oex (Switzerland), 140.
Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir), 199.
Châteaumeillant (Cher), 85.
CHATEAUNEUF (Count of), character in G. Berger’s story, 158, 160.
CHATEAUNEUF (Eudes de), an aristocratic ancestor, character in G. Berger’s story, 160.
Châtiments, Les, collection of satirical poetry by V. Hugo (1853), 59.
Chatou (Yvelines), 438.
Chatterbox, The (Le Babillard), by Boissy, 364.
CHAUCER (Geoffrey), English poet, 1340–1400, 375.
CHAUDOIR (Baron de), French numismatist, 349.
Chaumont-Porcien (Ardennes), 20, 138, 142, 143, 149, 316.
Chavignolles (Calvados), 13.
CHAZELLES (De), landowner, 470.
Chemische Akademie (Mannheim), 297.
CHENANY (Jeanne de), seventeenth-century French engraver, 171.
CHENARD & WALKER, makers of motorcars, 115, 368.
Chéops, Le, Paris nightclub, 356.
CHÉRI, see Ribibi, 231.
Cheshire (England), 443.
Cheval d’Orgueil, Le, by Pierre-Jakez Hélias, 295.
CHEVALIER (Maurice), French singer, 1888–1972, 234, 258.
Chevreuse valley, 116.
Cheyenne, Indian tribe, 453.
Chicago (Illinois), 73, 383.
Children of Captain Grant, The, novel by Jules Verne, 25.
Children’s Corner, by Claude Debussy (1908), 165.
Chimaera, a sculpture, 483.
China, 371.
CHINOC, see Cinoc.
Chinon (Indre-et-Loire), 154.
Chiricachua, Indian tribe, 453.
Chisholm, clan, 495.
Cholet (Maine-et-Loire), 148.
CHOPIN (Frédéric), French composer, 1810–1849, 50, 231.
CHRISTIE (Agatha), pseudonym of Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, English novelist, 1891–1976, 160, 579.
CHRISTINA, Queen of Sweden, 1626–1689, 89.
CHRISTO, painter, 483.
Chur (Switzerland), see Coire, 425.
CHURCHILL (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer), statesman, 1874–1965, 334.
CICERO (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Latin orator, c.106–c.43 BC, 249.
Cid, Le, tragi-comedy by Pierre Corneille, 160, 364.
Cincinatti (Ohio), 175.
CINNA, character in Corneille, 302.
CINOC (Albert), 197, 216, 227, 285–289, 409, 496, 499.
CISSAMPELOS (Madame), manageress of a family hotel, 403.
Citizen Kane, film by Orson Welles, 281.
Civil Engineering College (Paris), 185.
CLAIR (René), pseudonym of René Chomette, French film-maker, 164.
Clairvaux (Aube), 84.
CLAVEAU (Madame), formerly concierge at 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier, 17, 55, 60, 128, 161–162, 168, 211, 217, 286, 398.
CLAVEAU (Michel), her son, 17, 55, 162.
CLAWBONNY (Timothy), banker, 400.
CLÉRAY, Parisian leather-goods trader, 399.
Clermont (Meuse), 33.
Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), 199, 427.
CLIFFORD (Augustus Brian), US colonel, 156.
CLIFFORD (Haig Douglas), English baritone, 235.
Clocks and Clouds, detective novel, 151.
CLOVIS, King of the Franks, 85.
CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research), 205, 215, 269.
COCHET (Henri), French tennis star, 196.
Cochinchina, 198.
COCHISE, Apache chief, 453.
Coco weddelliana, 341.
COCTEAU (Jean), 465.
COEUR (Jacques), 198.
COHEN (J.M.), 581.
Coin-Collector’s Almanach, The, 214.
Coire (Switzerland), 425, 427.
COLBERT (Jean-Baptiste), French politician, 1619–1683, 231, 455.
COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor), English poet, 1772–1834, 172.
COLIN (Paul), French poster designer, 98.
COLIN D’HARLEVILLE (Jean-François), French playwright, 1735–1806, 364.
Collection of the Coins of China, Japan, etc., by Baron de Chaudoir, 349.
Collège Chaptal, 120, 125.
Collège de France, 205, 281.
Collins Harvill, iii, iv.
COLLOT (Henri, called “Monsieur Riri”), café owner, 124, 206, 232, 337, 349.
COLLOT (Isabelle and Martine, called “les petites Riri”), 124.
COLLOT (Lucienne, called “Madame Riri”), 28–31, 124.
COLLOT (Valentin, known as “Young Riri”), 124.
Colmar (Bas-Rhin), 85.
Cologne (Germany), 155.
COLOMB (M.), almanach publisher, 170, 214.
Colombia, 284.
Colonel Bogey, English soldiers’ song, 420.
COLQUHOUN OF DARROCH (Lord Lowager), 385.
COLUMBINE, character in the commedia dell’arte, 136.
COLUMBUS (Christopher), seafarer, 1451–1506, 384, 386, 387.
COMBELLE (Alix), tenor saxophonist, 363.
Come in, Little Nemo, song by Sam Horton, 181.
Commercy (Meuse), 61.
COMMINE (Arlette, née Trévins), 450.
COMMINE (Louis), 450.
COMMINE (Lucette), see Hennin, 450.
Comoedia, theatre magazine, 156.
Comoro Islands, 46, 126.
Compaña Mexicana de Aviación, 31.
Compiègne (Oise), 134, 135.
Complete Table of Energy Values of Customary Foods, 176.
Concerto in Memory of an Angel, by Alban Berg, 499.
CONCINI (Concino Concini, called the Marshal of Ancre), 1575–1617, 49.
CONFUCIUS (K’ung Tzu), Chinese philosopher, 555–479 BC, 400.
Congo, river, 46.
Conjuror, The, painting by Hieronymus Bosch, 18.
Connecticut, 259.
CONQUISTADOR, nickname of a tenant at 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier, 405.
Constantine (Algeria), 162.
CONSTANTINE I, THE GREAT (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Claudius Constantinus), Roman Emperor, c.280–337 AD, 84.
Constantinople, see Istanbul, 86, 472.
CONTAT (Michel), French scholar, 460.
COOK (Florence), stage name of Ingeborg Stanley, 308.
COOLIDGE (John Calvin), 30th president of the USA, 1872–1933, 259.
COOPER (Samuel), known as the little Van Dyke, English painter, 1609–1670, 173.
Copenhagen (Denmark), 90, 110, 484n.
COPERNICUS (Nicolas), Polish astronomer, 1473–1543, 206.
COPPEL (Octave), French composer, 349.
Coppelia, ballet by Léo Delibes (1870), 279, 285, 442.
Coppet (Switzerland), 358.
Coral Sea, 382.
Corbenic, 233, 344.
CORELLI (Arcangelo), Italian composer, 1653–1713, 427.
Corfu (Greece), 246, 330.
CORMON (Fernand), pseudonym of Fernand Anne Piestre, French painter, 1845–1925, 399.
CORNEILLE (Max), French actor, 242.
CORNEILLE (Pierre), French playwright, 1606–1684, 302, 364.
CORNEILLE (Thomas), French playwright, 1625–1709, 364.
CORNEYLIUS (Hubert), 409.
Cornwall (England), 40.
Coromandel, 334.
Corpse Will Play for You on the Piano, The, detective novel, 206.
Correspondence, by Beccaria, 91.
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Corsica, 198, 406.
Corvol l’Orgueilleux (Nièvre), 396.
Cosi fan tutte, opera by W. A. Mozart, 38.
Cosmographiae introductio …, by Martin Waldseemüller, 384.
COSTELLO (A.), General, 48.
Costelloe (Eire), 52.
Côte d’Azur, 442.
COUDÉ DU FORESTO (Yves), 457.
Countess of Berlingue with Red Eyes, portrait by Hutting, 279.
Count of Gleichen, The, tragedy by Yorick, 36.
Course in Organic Chemistry, by Polishovsky & Spaniardel, 185.
COURTELINE (Georges), pseudonym of Georges Moinaux, French writer, 1858–1929, 244, 255.
COUSIN (Jean), “Cousin the Bold”, Dieppe seafarer, fifteenth century, 386, 387.
Cousinia (Terra Consobrinia), 387, 388.
Cousin’s Sea, 387.
COUSSER, see Kusser, 21.
COUTANT (Claude), classmate of Gilbert Berger, 158.
Covadonga (Spain), 9, 228.
COWARD (Noël), English playwright, 255.
CRAVENNAT (Robert), chemistry technician, Morellet’s successor, 434.
CRAZY HORSE, Indian chief, 453.
Crazy House, display at the Universal Exhibition, 404.
Crazy Sisters, The, see Marie-Thérèse and Odile Trévins, 449.
CRAZY TURNPIKE, Indian chief, 453.
CRÉBILLION (Prosper Jolyot, seigneur de Crais-Billon), French playwright, 1674–1762, 364.
Crécy (battle of), 9.
CRECY-COUVÉ (Duke of), 51.
CRECY-COUVÉ (Marshal), 51.
CRESPI (Célia), 41, 58, 60, 127, 212, 217, 218, 227, 261, 286, 355, 398, 401, 402, 405–406, 450, 471, 491, 499, 500.
CRESSIDA, heroine of Troilus and Cressida by W. Shakespeare, 172.
Crete, 127.
Crimea (USSR), 151.
Crimén piramidal, El, detective novel, 168.
Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, The, by Luis Buñel, 465.
CRIPPS (Sir Richard Stafford), statesmen, 1889–1952, 457.
Critical Bibliography … Relating to the Death of Adolf Hitler, by M. Echard, 456.
CROCKETT (Davy), American hero, 249.
CROSBY (Bing), American singer, 1904–1977, 382.
Crossed Words, musical work by Sven Grundtvig, 181.
Crows, Indian tribe, 453.
Crozet Islands, 179.
CROZIER, officer commanding The Terror, 192.
CRUBELLIER (Norbert), landowner, 470.
Crusader’s Entry at Constantinople, The, by F. Dufay, after Delacroix, 472.
CRUSOE (Robinson), character in novel of same name by Daniel Defoe, 229, 417.
Cuba, 413.
CUMBERLAND (William Augustus, Duke of), 1721–1765, 100.
Cumberland (England), 342.
Cupid and Psyche, by Gérard, 458.
Curaçao, 280.
CURIE (Pierre) and CURIE (Marie), French physicists, 83.
Curiously Strong Altoids Peppermint Oil, 243.
Cusenier, brand of bleach, 60.
CUVELIER (Marcel), French actor, 64.
CUVERVILLE (de), French moralist, 386.
CUVIER (Georges, Baron), French zoologist, 1769–1832, 289.
Cyclades, 127, 425.
Cyclops (project), 187.
Cypraea caput serpentis, 46.
Cypraea moneta, 45–46.
Cypraea turdus, 45–46.
Cyprus, 55.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Savinien de), 334.
D. (Emile), 140, 141.
DADDI (Romeo), character in Pirandello, 17, 189, 232.
DAGUERRE (Jacques), French inventor, 1787–1851, 199.
Daily Mail, London daily, 385.
Damascus (Syria), 210, 211.
DAMISCH (Hubert), 328.
Dancer with Gold Coins, The, by Perpignani, 472.
Dances, by Hans Neusiedler, 473.
DANGLARS (Berthe), 128, 219, 398–403.
DANGLARS (Maximilien), 59, 128, 161, 219, 398–403.
DANGLARS (Senior), 404.
Danish Cultural Centre (London), 142.
DANNAY (Fred), pen-name of C.-A. Beyssandre, 431.
Danorum regumque …, by Saxo Grammaticus, 449.
Dante Alighieri Foundation (London), 142.
DANTON (Georges Jacques), French politician, 1759–1794, 83.
Dardanelles, 493.
Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), 46.
Daring Young Man on a Flying Trapeze, The, by William Saroyan, 362.
DARIUS, King of Persia, 428.
DASIWEEL, lance-sergeant, 162.
Dasogale fontoynanti, 82.
Dauphin, 350.
DAVIDOFF, American physicist of German origin, 298.
DAVIS, character in a novel, 302.
DAVIS (Gary), citizen of the world, 457.
Davos (Switzerland), 319, 383.
DAVOUT (Louis-Nicolas), Duke of Auerstadt, Prince of Eckmühl, maréchal de France, 1770–1823, 184.
Day at the Races, A, print, 104.
Death in the Clouds, by Agatha Christie, 160.
Deauville (Calvados), 246, 499.
DEERE (John), wholesale hardware, 413.
Déjeuner sur l’herbe. Le, painting by Manet, 39.
DEKKER (Thomas), English writer, 1572–1632, 310.
DELACROIX (Eugène), French painter, 1798–1863, 472.
DELANEY (Jack), American boxer, 175.
Delft (Holland), 317, 395, 425, 426.
DELIEGE, Vanderstuyft’s pacemaker, 351.
DELLA MARSA (Count R.), Venetian patron of the arts, 439.
DELMONT AND Co., interior designers, 151.
DEMOCRITUS, Greek philosopher, 460–370 BC, 14.
Dempledorf (Nebraska), 499.
DEMPSEY (William Harrison, called Jack), American boxer, 83, 175.
DEMY (Jacques), 465.
De natura renum, by Blancard, 478.
DENIAUD (Yves), French actor, 1901–1959, 487.
DENIKIN (Anton Ivanovich), Russian general, 1872–1947, 151.
Denmark, 199, 389, 425, 440.
De renibus, by Malpighi, 478.
De re vestiaria veterum, by Rubenius (1665), 289.
Dernières Nouvelles de Marseille, local newspaper, 244.
DESCARTES (René), French philosopher, 1596–1650, 292.
DESCELIERS (Pierre), Dieppe cartographer, c.1500–c.1558, 386.
Descent from the Cross, by Vecello Groziano, 421.
DESDEMONA, character in Verdi’s Otello, 234, 313.
DESDEMONA, heroine of Othello by W. Shakespeare, 171.
Des Français parlent aux Français, wartime radio broadcast, 273.
Désiré, see Didi, 292.
DESLIENS (Nicolas), sixteenth-century mapmaker, 386.
Des Moines (Iowa), 427.
DESTOUCHES (Philippe Néricault), French playwright, 1680–1754, 364.
De structura et usu renum, by Bellini, 478.
De structura renum, 475, 476, 477, 480.
Détective, French periodical, 156, 213.
Deutschland über alles, German song, 184.
DEVAUX (Pierre), 133.
Devon (England), 141.
DEWEY (Melvil), American bibliographer, 1851–1931, inventor of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), 10, 205.
DE WIED, Belgian stayer, 353.
DEZOBRY, 289.
DIABELLI, 295.
Dialogues with 33 Variations by Ludwig van Beethoven on a Theme of Diabelli, by Michel Butor, 295.
Diamonds, a San Francisco club, 167.
Dictionary of Conversation, 289.
Dictionary of Geography, by Meissas and Michelot, 495.
Dictionary of Medieval French and Latin Abbreviations, by Espingole, 437
Dictionary of the Spanish Church in the Seventeenth Century, by A. Jérôme, 59.
Dictionnaire de Trévoux, 103.
DIDI (Didier Colonna, alias Désiré, alias Didi), nightclub manager, 292–293.
Dido, by Lefranc de Pompignan,
364.
Dido and Aeneas, opera by Purcell (1689), 144.
DIDOT, family of French printers, 466.
Didymus (Lebanon), 280.
Diégo-Suarez (Antseranana) (Madagascar), 126.
Dieppe (Seine-Maritime), 386–388.
Dijon (Côte d’Or), 154, 198, 447.
DINTEVILLE (Dr Bernard), 4, 49, 59, 75, 195, 207, 208–209, 217, 227, 326, 474–480, 496.
DINTEVILLE (Emmanuel de), 1820–1847, 50.
DINTEVILLE (François de), 1814–1867, 50–51.
DINTEVILLE (Gilbert de), 1774–1796, 50.
DINTEVILLE (Laurelle de), 1842–1861, 51.
DINTEVILLE (Rigaud de), 475, 479, 480.
DIOCLETIAN, Roman emperor, 245–c.313 AD, 246.
Diogène, literary review, 331.
Diomira (Calvino), 375.
Dismal Swamp, song, 181.
Disney World (USA), 423, 425 & n., 427.
DITTERSDORF, German officer, 120.
Divine Legation of Moses, by William Warburton, 443.
Divonne-les-Bains, 499.
Dizzy Fits of Psyche, The, fantaisie-bouffe by R. Becquerloux, 439.
Djakarta (formerly Batavia, Indonesia), 250.
Djerba (Tunisia), 363.
Doctor’s Daily, The, 195.
Doctor’s Journal, The, 195.
Doctor’s Week, The, 195.
DODÉCA, known as Dodefecate, dog belonging to a former tenant, 128, 158, 229.
Dog Days, (detective?) novel, 495.
Dogs of France, dog lovers’ journal, 416.
DOLORES (Faye), pseudonym of Dolores Bellardo, Spanish actress, 262.
DOMINGO (Paco), pseudonym of Rémi Rorschach, 43.
“Domino”, drag queen, 293.
Don Giovanni, opera by Mozart, 235.
DON QUIXOTE, Cervantes’s hero, 282.
Don’t Give Up the Ship, film by Gordon Douglas, 465.
Don’t Leave the Cast, Baby!, starring Olivia Norvell, 394.
DON’T-MIND-IF-I-DO, (Mrs) (Catherine Hubscher, maréchale Lefèbvre, known as “Madame Sans-Gêne”), 61.
DOOLEY (Tom), 279.
Dordogne (France), 40, 215, 480.
Dorset (England), 154, 238, 329.
Doudoune et Mambo, television programme produced by R. Rorschach, 64.
DOUGLAS (Gordon), 465.
DRACENA (Luca), accordionist, 414.
Dragon, a legendary beast, 325, 394.
DRAPIER (B.), pen-name of C.-A. Beyssandre, 431.
Dresden (Germany), 477.
DROUOT, Paris auctioneers, 27, 77, 389.
Dublin (Eire), 21, 166.
Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia), 246.
DUBUFFET, French painter, 429.
DUCREUX (Joseph), French painter, 1737–1820, 472–473.
Dudinka (USSR), 54.
Duesenberg, make of motorcar, 259.
DUFAY (Florentin), pupil of Delacroix, 472.
DUFRESNE, chess player, 330.
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