Life

by Perec, Georges

  KOSCIUSZKO (Boris), theatrical director, 363–364.

  KOVACS, 139.

  KOWALSKI (Fedor), pseudonym of Rémi Rorschach, 43.

  KRAILSHEIMER (A.), 581.

  Krakow (Poland), 287.

  Krasnodar (USSR), 150.

  KRATZER (Nicolas), sixteenth-century astronomer, 457.

  KRAUSE (Dominique), classmate of Isabelle Gratiolet, 397.

  KRAVCHIK (Carlos), Argentinian airman, 259.

  KRENEK (Ernst), American composer of Austrian origin, 382.

  KRUESI (John), American engineer, collaborated with Edison, 95.

  Kuban (USSR), 150.

  Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 172.

  Kubus, see Anadalams, 107–112.

  KUHN, urologist, 479.

  Kula, ritual expeditions of the Trobriand Islanders, 389.

  KUROPATKIN (Aleksey Nikolaevich), Russian general, 1848–1925, 447.

  KUSSER, chemist of German origin, 21, 22.

  KUSSER (Johann Sigismund), German composer, 1660–1727, 21.

  Kuwait, 300, 423.

  KYD (Thomas), English playwright, 1558–1594, 300.

  Kyoto (Japan), 207.

  KYSARCHIUS, Icelandic philologist, sixteenth century, 289.

  LABICHE (Eugène), author of French farces, 1815–1888, 255, 463.

  Laborynthus, engraving, 56.

  LA BRIGUE, café owner in Marseilles, 244.

  LA BRIGUE, character in plays by Georges Courteline, 244.

  LACHATRE (Maurice), nineteenth-century lexicographer, 289.

  LACOSTE (Jean-René), tennis player, 196.

  LACRETELLE (Jacques de), French writer, 172.

  Lady from Shanghai, The, film by Orson Welles, 293.

  LADY GODIVA, 259.

  LADY MACBETH, Shakespearean heroine, 171.

  LADY PICCOLO, a cat, 301.

  Lady in the Lake, The, by Raymond Chandler, 414.

  LA FAYETTE (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de), 219.

  La Ferté-Milon (Aisne), 32, 199, 244.

  LA FONTAINE (Jean de), French poet, 1621–1695, 331.

  LAFOSSE (Antoine), French playwright, 1653–1708, 364.

  LAFUENTE (Mme), Mme de Beaumont’s domestic help, 177, 371, 451, 452

  La Hacquinière, underground station on the Paris express line ‘B’, 438.

  Lahore (Pakistan), 204, 371.

  Laird of Polisy, The, by Malte d’Istillerie, 364.

  LAJOIE (François-Pierre), Canadian physiologist, 281, 284.

  LAMARTINE (Alphonse de), French writer, 1790–1869, 198.

  Lambayeque (Peru), 346.

  LAMBERT (Véronique), see Elizabeth de Beaumont, 142, 143, 144, 145.

  LAMBLIN (B.), 581.

  LAMI (Eugène), French painter, 1800–1890, 421.

  LA MINOUCHE, Mme Moreau’s cat, 101.

  LAMOTTE-HOUDAR (Antoine Houdar de la Motte), French playwright, 1672–1731, 364.

  LAMOUREUX (Robert), stage name of R. Lamouroux, French comedian, 487.

  Lancashire, 82.

  LANCELOT, jack of clubs, 169.

  LANDES (David), American historian, 48.

  LANE (Tom), jockey, 258.

  La Norma, opera by Bellini, 234.

  Laon (Aisne), 199.

  La Parisienne, foodstore chain, 452.

  LA PEROUSE (Jean-François de Galaup, count of), French explorer, 1741–1788, 198.

  LA RAMEE, King’s messenger, a character in A. Dumas’s Twenty Years After, 362.

  La Renaissance, restaurant, 488.

  La Réunion (island), 198.

  La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime), 78, 199.

  LAROUSSE (Pierre), French compiler of encyclopaedias, 1817–1875, 287, 331.

  LARRIVE, French lexicographer, nineteenth century, 289.

  Lascaux (Dordogne), 428.

  Last Expedition in Search of Franklin, The, puzzle by G. Winckler, 192.

  Las Vegas (Nevada), 449.

  LA TOUR (Georges Dumesnil de), French painter, 1593–1652, 207.

  Launceston (Tasmania), 337.

  LAUREL (Stanley), see also Arthur Stanley Jefferson, 21, 43.

  Lautaret, col du, 350.

  LAUTIER (Etienne-François de), French playwright, 1736–1826, known as ‘the Anacharsis of the boudoir’, 364.

  LAUTIER, Jean Brunier’s pacemaker, 352.

  Laval (Mayenne), 488.

  LAVAL (Pierre), French politician, 1883–1945, 273.

  Laval University, 284.

  Lavaur (Tarn), 326, 474, 479.

  LAVEDAN (Henri), French writer, 1859–1940, 103.

  LAVOISIER (Antoine-Laurent de), French chemist, 1743–1794, 372, 470.

  LAWRENCE (Sir Thomas), English portrait painter, 1769–1830, 421.

  LAWRENCE (T. E.), 379.

  LAZIUS, 289.

  LEAK (A. N.), 581.

  LE BAILLY, French publisher, 198.

  LE BAS (Jacques-Philippe), French print-maker, 1707–1784, 421.

  LEBRAN-CHASTEL, Professor of Medicine, 476–480.

  LEBRUN-BRETTIL, archivist, 387.

  Lebtit, Arab capital in Spain, 8, 9, 10.

  LECOMTE, explorer of Labrador, 281.

  Leçons, a collection of aphorisms by A. de Routisie, 289.

  Leda, 322.

  LEDERER (Jacques), 17.

  Lédignan (Var), 19, 145, 146, 147, 148, 366, 368.

  LEDINANT (Elizabeth), see Elizabeth de Beaumont, 140.

  LEDUC (André), racing cyclist, 350.

  LEE (M. B.), pen-name of C.-A. Beyssandre, 431.

  LEFEVRE, animal trainer, 395 & n.

  LEFRANC DE POMPIGNAN (Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan), French playwright, 1709–1784, 364.

  LEFT HAND, Cheyenne chief, 453.

  Leghorn (Italy), 45.

  Legion of Honour, 495.

  Legouix-Vavassor Alsatia, make of car, 82.

  LEHAMEAU (Bernard), 156.

  Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), 186, 187.

  LEHRER (Tom), American humorist and mathematician, 133.

  LEIBNIZ (William Gottfried), German philosopher, 1646–1716, 263.

  Leiden (Holland), 475.

  LEIRIS (Michel), French writer, 579.

  LELAND (John), sixteenth-century English scholar, friend of Thomas Wyatt, 415.

  LELY (Sir Peter), English painter, 1618–1680, 280.

  Le Mans (Sarthe), 112.

  LEMERCIER (Nepomucène), French playwright, 1771–1840, 364.

  LE MERIADECH’ (Richard), Breton landscape artist, 74, 75.

  LENART, stayer, 353.

  LENCLOS (Anne, known as Ninon, de), 1616–1706, 396.

  LENDRUM (S.), 581.

  LEONARD, Bartlebooth’s former wine steward, 114.

  Le Raincy (Seine-Saint-Denis), 192.

  LEROUX, Gaston, see Ribibi, 244.

  Les Eyzies (Dordogne), 428.

  Les Islettes (Meuse), 33.

  Les Lettres Nouvelles, literary review, 17.

  Le Tréport (Seine-Maritime), 387.

  Let’s Have a Dream, play by Sacha Guitry, 487.

  Levallois (Hauts-de-Seine), 27, 350, 471.

  LEVITT (Al), drummer, 328.

  LEWIS (Jerry), American film-maker, 465.

  LEWIS (Terry), 581.

  Lexicon, by Suidas, 449.

  Libération, French daily, 30.

  Liberty, Statue of, by Bartholdi, 470.

  Libvre mangificque dez Merveyes …, by F. Rablé, 248.

  LICHTENFELD (Clara), see Clara Marcia, 173.

  LIDENBROCK (Otto), character in Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 410.

  Lido, Paris music hall, 449.

  LIE (Trygve), Norwegian diplomat, 457.

  Liège (Belgium), 448, 450.

  LIFAR (Serge), 258.

  Life A User’s Manual, i, iii, iv, 581.

  Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain, 467.

  Lilac, The, 464.

  Lili Marlène, German song, 218.

  Lille (Nord), 199, 250, 409.

&
nbsp; Lilliputian Village, The, 437.

  Lima (Peru), 357, 395.

  Lime Blossom Lady, song by “Hortense”, 182.

  LIME PRESS, Lille publisher, 409.

  Lincoln Island (the “mysterious island” in Verne’s novels), 26, 345.

  LINDER (Max), pseudonym of Gabriel Neuvielle, French actor, 1883–1925, 43.

  LINHAUS, see Cinoc.

  LINHAUS (Nick), 499.

  LINNAEUS (Carl von), Swedish naturalist, 1707–1778, 289.

  LINO PRICKFACE, see Lino Margay.

  LINO THE DRIBBLER, see Lino Margay, 356.

  LIONEL D’ESTE (Lionello), lord of Ferrara and Modena, 113.

  LIPSIUS, 289.

  Lisbon (Portugal), 332.

  LISZT (Franz), Hungarian composer, 1811–1886, 50, 231.

  LITTAU (Count von), aide-de-camp to Friedrich-Wilhelm II, 375.

  LITTAU (Ursula von), his daughter, 375–379.

  Little Dancer, The, home movie, 442.

  Lives of the Trévins Sisters, The, by C. Durand-Taillefer (Mme Trévins), 448.

  LIVINGSTONE (David), Scottish explorer and missionary, 1813–1873, 280, 455?

  Livry-Gargan (Seine-Saint-Denis), 439.

  LLOYD (Harold), American actor, 1893–1971, 43.

  LOBEN (Countess of), wife of Maurice de Saxe, 87.

  Loch Ness (Scotland), 299.

  LODGE (Henry Cabot), American diplomat, 457.

  Logarithms, by Bouvard et Ratinet, 328.

  Lohengrin, opera by Richard Wagner, 235.

  Loire, châteaux of, 246.

  Loire (river), 154.

  Lola, film by Jacques Demy, 465.

  LOLLOBRIGIDA (Gina), Italian actress, 164.

  Lolotte, or My Noviciate, pornographic work by Andréa de Nerciat, 322.

  LOMONOSOV (Mikhail Vassilievich), Russian writer, 1711–1765, 288.

  London (UK), 31, 56, 99, 100, 141, 143, 173, 273, 290, 303, 344, 389, 394, 395, 468.

  Ambassadors, 449.

  Berner’s Street, 144.

  Buckingham Palace, 141

  Charing Cross, 444.

  Courtauld Institute, 173.

  Covent Garden, 144, 234.

  Crescent Gardens, 442.

  French Embassy, 142, 440.

  Grafton Street, iii.

  Hammer Hall, 452.

  Harley Street, 440.

  Haymarket, 469.

  Keppel Street, 144.

  London Bridge, 428.

  Paddington Station, 143.

  St Martin’s Lane, 100.

  Sotheby’s, 171.

  Victoria Station, 441.

  Westminster Abbey, 278.

  LONDON (Jack), pseudonym of John Griffiths, American novelist, 393.

  LONDON (James W.), pseudonym of Arnold Flexner, 175.

  LONE HORN, Indian chief, 453.

  LONGCHAMPS (Charles de), French playwright, 1768–1832, 364.

  Longford Castle, 12.

  LONG HAIR, Indian chief, 453.

  LONGHI, painter and decorator, 83, 84, 91, 94.

  LONGINUS (Saint), converted centurion, 84.

  Long Island (NY), 279.

  LOOKING GLASS, Indian chief, 453.

  LOORENS (Carel van), 371–379, 496.

  LOPEZ (Aurelio), 308, 309, 313–315.

  LORELEI, see Ingeborg Stanley, 59, 307, 308.

  Los Angeles (California), 31, 35.

  Lost Ambitions, by Paulin-Alfort, 242.

  Loudun (Vienne), 301.

  LOUIS, Bartlebooth’s former odd-job man, 114.

  LOUIS (Dr), allegedly the inventor of the guillotine (“louisette”), 290.

  LOUIS XIII, French king, 11, 41, 49, 69, 295, 491.

  LOUIS XIV, French king, 288, 396, 479.

  LOUIS XV, French king, 137, 203, 216, 302, 405, 417, 436.

  LOUIS XVI, French king, 83, 103, 199, 232, 400, 421, 473.

  LOUIS XVII, heir to the Bourbon throne, 156.

  Louisiana, 411.

  Louisville (Kentucky), 315.

  Louisville Courier and Journal, Kentucky newspaper, 315.

  Louvain (Belgium), 325.

  LOUVET, couple, 164, 167–168, 215–218, 227, 369, 458, 459–460.

  Love Letters of Clara Schumann, 394.

  Love Life of the Stuarts, The, 69.

  Lovelorn Seducer, The, by Longchamps, 364.

  Love, Maracas and Salami, Spanish–Moroccan film produced by Gate Flanders, 262.

  Love’s Labour’s Lost, by William Shakespeare, 468.

  LOWE-PORTER (H. T.), 581.

  LOWRY (Malcolm), 579.

  LUCAS, actor in Fresnel’s troupe, 255, 256, 257.

  Lucca (Italy), 280, 283.

  LUCERO, a painter, character in G. Berger’s story, 158–160.

  LUCETTE, actress in Fresnel’s troupe, 255–257.

  Lucky Strike, racing paper, 171.

  Lucus Asturum, old name of Oviedo, 9.

  LUD (Germain), founder of the Saint-Dié press, 384.

  LUDOVIC, a hamster, 395n.

  LUDWIG II, King of Bavaria, 1845–1886, 320.

  Ludwigshafen (Germany), 380.

  Lugano (Switzerland), 172.

  ŁUKASIEWICZ (Jan), Polish logician, 1878–1956, 280, 284.

  LULLY (Jean-Baptiste), French composer, 1632–1687, 21, 439.

  Lund (Sweden), 90.

  Lurs (Pyrénées-Orientales), 199.

  Lusiades, by Camoëns, 172.

  LUTHER (Martin), German reformer, 1483–1546, 197.

  LUYNES (Charles d’Albert de), connétable de France, 1578–1621, 49.

  Luzon (Philippines), 54.

  Lycée Français de Londres, 142.

  LYCOS OF MACEDON, Greek doctor, 478.

  Lyons (Rhône), 199, 257, 403.

  Lyrical Poems, by J.-P. Uz, 288.

  McAnguish’s Caledonian Panacea, 247.

  Macao, 250.

  MACARTHUR (Douglas), US general, 457.

  Macassar (Indonesia), 250.

  MCCORK (Faber), American industrialist, 449.

  MCDONALD (J. W.), furniture manufacturer, 413.

  MCINTOSH, urologist, 479.

  MACKLIN, botanist, 347.

  MACKLIN (Bunny), 347–348.

  MACKLIN (Corbett), a missionary, 347.

  MCLUHAN (Marshall), Canadian thinker, 427.

  Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire), 154, 198, 199.

  Macondo (Colombia), 167.

  MACQUART (Pierre-Joseph), French botanist, 1743–1805, 289.

  Madagascar, 55, 82, 179, 194.

  Madras (India), 54.

  Madrid, 98, 183, 318.

  Maestranza Donation (Havana), 385–386.

  Magic of Bruges, The, tourist film, with Olivia Norvell, 394.

  Magistrate is the Murderer, The, detective story by Lawrence Wargrave, 264.

  MAGNE (Antonin), French cycling champion, 350.

  MAGRITTE (René), Belgian painter, 1898–1967, 119, 429.

  MAGRON (Martin), physiologist, 15.

  Mahomet, 36.

  Maiandros (river), 493.

  MAIGRET, character in novels by Georges Simenon, 139.

  Maine-et-Loire, department of, 266.

  Main rouge, French anarchist group, 139.

  Mainz (Germany), 85.

  Maison de la Radio, French broadcasting headquarters, 48.

  Maison et Jardin, review, 48.

  Maison Française, La, review, 48.

  MAISONNEUVE (L. J. B. Simonnet de), French playwright, 1745–1819, 364.

  Majunga (Madagascar), 126.

  MAKHAROV, Russian admiral, 447.

  Malacca, peninsula, 54.

  Malaga (Spain), 376.

  Malakhitès, opus 35 by Morris Schmetterling, 208.

  MALEHAUT (Viviane), singer, 414.

  MALEVICH (Kazimir Severinovich), Russian painter, 1878–1935, 39.

  MALINOWSKI (Bronislaw Kaspar), English ethnologist, 1884–1942, 107, 108, 110.

  MALLEVILLE (Mickey), a singer, character in The Murder of the Goldfish, 222–225.

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p; Malmaison, 242.

  MALPIGHI (Marcello), Italian anatomist, 1628–1694, 475, 476, 478.

  MALRAUX (André), French Minister of Culture, 1901–1976, 74.

  Malta, 373.

  MALTE D’ISTILLERIE (Alexandre-Amand-Olivier), 1697–1774, 364.

  Mamers (Sarthe), 156.

  Manchester (England), 487, 581.

  MANDETTA (Guido), alias Theo Van Schallaert, alias Jim Brown, alias?, 83–4, 87, 90, 91.

  Manifeste du Mineral Art, book by F. Hutting, 34.

  Manila (Philippines), 11.

  Manlius Capitolinus, by Lafosse, 364.

  MANN (Thomas), 1875–1955, 495, 579.

  Mannheim (Germany), 297.

  MANS (F. H.), Dutch landscape painter, 421.

  MANSA (J. H.), Danish cartographer, 186.

  Man with Sole Out, collective work by Vladislav, 482.

  Many-Splendoured Mzab, talk by A. Faucillon, 486.

  Map of the Town and Citadel of Namur, by T. Shandy, 227, 362.

  MARAT (Jean-Paul), French revolutionary, 1743–1794, 290.

  MARCEAU (François-Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers), French general, 1769–1796, 198.

  MARCHAL (Paul), 411.

  Marches and Fanfares of the 2nd Armoured Division, The, recording, 132–133.

  MARCIA (Clara, née Lichtenfeld), antique dealer, 28, 60, 101–102, 151, 152, 173, 227, 318–324, 348, 457, 459, 497, 499.

  MARCIA (David), 101, 173, 217, 227, 318, 324, 348, 349, 361–365.

  MARCIA (Léon), art historian, 60, 101, 127, 171–174, 218, 323, 362, 396, 451, 497, 499.

  MARCION (Corinne), see Honoré, 398.

  MARCION (Honoré), see Honoré, 398.

  MARCO POLO, Italian traveller, 1254–1324, 292.

  Marcoule (Gard), reactor site, 140.

  MARCUART, banker, 400.

  MARECHAL (Maurice), French actor, 64.

  Margate (England), 443.

  MARGAY (LINO), alias Lino the Dribbler, alias Lino Prickface 352–358

  Mariana Islands, 382.

  MARIE-ANTOINETTE, 232.

  MARKHAM AND COOLIDGE, publishers, 35.

  Marly-le-Roi, 486.

  Marne (river), 272.

  Marolles-les-Braults (Sarthe), 157.

  MARQUEZ (Gabriel Garcia), 579.

  MARQUISEAUX (Caroline, née Echard), 60, 128, 134–136, 179, 215, 216, 227, 234, 301, 324, 455, 497.

  MARQUISEAUX (father), 137.

  MARQUISEAUX (Philippe), 134–137, 179–182, 215, 227, 234, 324, 455, 497.

  MARR (Robin), 263.

  Marseillaise, La, French patriotic song, 416.

  Marseilles (Bouches-du-Rhóne), 43, 108, 139, 198, 199, 214, 244, 261, 329, 416, 459.

  Saint-Charles barracks, 244.