Life

by Perec, Georges

  RASTIGNAC (Eugène de), hero of Balzac’s novel Le Père Goriot, 327.

  Rat Behind the Arras, A, painting by Forbes, 14–15, 324.

  RATINET, see Bouvard.

  RAY (John), English naturalist, 1627–1705, 289.

  RAZIN (Stepan Timofeevich, known as Stenka), Cossack leader, c. 1630–1671, 409.

  RAZZA, hired killer, 357.

  Reader’s Digest, 31.

  Reading (Connecticut), 466.

  Réalités, French illustrated magazine, 156.

  RECAMIER

  (Jeane-Françoise-Julie-Adelaïde Bernard, dame), 1777–1849, 329, 396.

  Reconquista, La, 9.

  Red Sea, 45, 54,434.

  Red Shoes, film by Michael Powell, 444.

  REGNARD (Jean-François), French playwright, 1655–1709, 180.

  REGNIER (Renaud), cartographer, school of Dieppe, 387, 388.

  REID (Alastair), 581.

  Remember the Alamo, MTB, 260.

  RENAN (Ernest), French writer, 1823–1892, 50.

  Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), 199.

  REOL (Louise), 41, 217, 218, 227, 414, 484, 488, 490, 492, 493, 496.

  REOL (Maurice), 41, 128, 158, 227, 484–493, 496.

  REOL (Octave), 41–42, 195, 488, 493.

  Respectable P…, The, by J.-P. Sartre, 487.

  Restaurant du Grand U, Paris restaurant, 214.

  RESTROOM BOMBER, Indian chief, 453.

  Rethel (Ardennes), 138, 150.

  Retreat from Russia, The, (1814), painting by Meissonier, 39.

  Revenge of the Triangle, detective novel, by Florence Ballard, 103.

  Rêverie, biscuit tin, 458.

  Reyes de Taifas, 9.

  Rhadamniste, by Crébillon, 364.

  RHEE (Syngman), Korean politician, 457.

  Rheims, 85.

  Rhine (river), 154.

  Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 300.

  Rhône-Alps region, 485.

  RIBIBI, Marguerite Winckler’s cat, 244, 246.

  RICCETTI (Maximilien), pseudonym of Max Riquet, dancer and choreographer, 438–441, 442, 446.

  RICHARDSON (Sylvia), 581.

  RICHARDT & SECHER, boiler manufacturers, 74.

  RICHELIEU (Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal, Duke of), 1585–1642, 256.

  RICHEPIN (Jean), French writer, 1849–1926, 174, 497.

  Rich Hours of the Duke de Berry, television programme, 383.

  RICHMOND (Helena), romantic engraver, 331.

  Richmond (Virginia), 25.

  RICHTHOFEN, the “Red Baron”, German First-World-War air ace, 156.

  Ricqlès, brand of chewing gum, 196.

  Right On Lads!, starring Olivia Norvell, 393.

  Right Recipe, The, cartoon, 370.

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (Nikolai Andreevich), Russian composer, 1844–1908, 325.

  Ring des Nibelungen, Der, tetralogy by R. Wagner, 234.

  RIN TIN TIN, a dog, 283.

  Rio de Janeiro, 394.

  Rippleson (Florida), 339.

  RIQUET (Max), see Riccetti, 438.

  RIRI (Henri Collot, called Monsieur), café owner, see Collot (Henri), 25, 30, 124.

  ROBERT (Hubert), French painter, 1733–1808, 472.

  Robinson Making Himself as Comfortable as He Can on His Desert Island, painting on wood, 417.

  Rochefort (Charente-Maritime), 199, 273.

  ROCHEFORT, character in works by Dumas, 158, 256.

  Rochetaillé, 350.

  RODOLFO, character in La Bohème, 234.

  RODOLPHE, a trapeze artist, 214.

  RODRIGUEZ, King of Spain, 9.

  ROGERS (Ethel), Franz Hutting’s maid, 33–34, 496.

  Roissy-en-France, 129.

  ROLAND DE LA PLATIERE (Jean-Marie), French politician, 1734–1793, 348.

  ROLANDI, London bookseller, 144.

  Roll over Clover, novel by Paul Winther, 68.

  Rolypoly, Mme Nochère’s dog, 164.

  ROMAGNESI (Henri), composer of romances, 1781–1851, 290.

  Romainville (Seine-Saint-Denis), 96.

  ROMANET, manager of 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier, 24, 124, 164, 203, 216–217, 419, 420, 491.

  Romania, 151.

  ROMAN NOSE, Indian chief, 453.

  ROMANOV, Russian Imperial family (1613–1917), 328.

  Romans (Drôme), 416.

  Rome (Italy), 36, 84, 85, 248, 302, 477.

  Campus Martius, 64.

  S Giovanni in Laterano, 84, 85.

  S Maria-di-Trastevero, 85.

  S Maria Maggiora, 85.

  St Mark’s, 84.

  S Paolo fuori le Mura, 84.

  St Peter’s, 84, 248.

  S Silvestro-in-capite, 85.

  Stazione Termini, 469.

  ROMMEL (Erwin), German Field Marshal, 1891–1944, 297.

  RONDEAU, master caster, 1493–1543, 289.

  ROOSEVELT (Franklin Delano), 32nd president of the USA, 1882–1945, 260.

  ROQUELAURE (Antoine-Gaston, Duke of), maréchal de France, 1656–1738, 291.

  RORSCHACH (Olivia, née Norvell), see Olivia Norvell, 35, 228, 380–383, 393–395, 418–420, 432.

  RORSCHACH (Rémi), television producer, 4, 13, 35, 42–48, 62–66, 74, 119, 120, 124, 127, 158, 170, 215, 218, 325, 380, 382, 383, 394, 417, 434, 468, 469, 470.

  ROSALIND, a character in Shakespeare, 171.

  Ross (John), pseudonym of Carel van Loorens, 379.

  Rostov (USSR), 145.

  ROTHKO (Mark), American painter, 1903–1970, 429.

  ROTROU (Jean), French playwright, 1603–1650, 364.

  Rotterdam (Holland), 89, 94.

  ROUBAUD (Jacques), 579.

  ROUCHER (P.), 328.

  Rouen (Seine-Maritime), 198,199.

  Roughing It, by Mark Twain, 467.

  ROUSSEAU (Jean-Baptiste), French poet, 1671–1741, 87, 88, 94.

  ROUSSEL (Guyot), developer, 470.

  ROUSSEL (Raymond), 1877–1933, 579.

  ROUSTAN, Imperial Mameluke, 377.

  ROUTISIE (Albert de), French writer, 1834–1867, 288.

  ROUX (Antoine), early twentieth-century watercolourist, 459.

  Rovigno (Yugoslavia), 246.

  ROWLANDS (Marty), pseudonym of Arnold Flexner, 175.

  Roxelane et Mustapha, by Maisonneuve, 364.

  Royal Historical Society, 383.

  RUBENIUS, classical historian, 289.

  Rueil (Hauts-de-Seine), 274.

  RUGGIERI’S, pyrotechnicians, 449.

  RUMFORD (Madame de), 470.

  RUMPELMEYER’S, café, 147.

  Russia, 19, 150, 447.

  Russian, The, see Abel Speiss, 415.

  Russkaya Dusha, tonic water, 280.

  Rustica, agricultural journal, 410.

  RUYSCH (Frederyk), Dutch anatomist, 1638–1731, 475.

  RYBALKA (Michel), French academic, 460.

  RZEWUSKA (Princess), 402.

  Saar (Germany), 140.

  Saarbrüken (Germany), 140.

  SABATA (Victor de), conductor, 234.

  SACHER-MASOCH (Leopold, Freiherr von), Austrian writer, 1836–1895, 331.

  SADE

  (Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de), French writer, 1780–1814, 400.

  Safad (Israel), 425, 427.

  Safety Regulations in Mines and Quarries, 7.

  Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, 85.

  Saint-Cyr (Yvelines), 362.

  Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), 84.

  Saint-Dié (Vosges), 383, 384.

  Sainte-Geneviève, Library, 289.

  Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), 18, 116.

  SAINT HELEN, 84.

  Saint-Jean-d’Angély, 273.

  Saint-Jean-de-Luz, 439.

  St John’s (Newfoundland), 55.

  Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (French Guyana), 403.

  St-Moritz Latest News, 432.

  Saint-Mouezy-sur-Eon (Indre), 69, 97, 343.

  Saint-Nectaire, type of cheese, 177.

  Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), 28.

  Saint P
etersburg (Florida), 410.

  St Petersburg (USSR), see also Hermitage, 36.

  Saint-Quentin (Aisne), 350, 358.

  Saint-Romain-du-Colbosc (Seine-Maritime), 187.

  Saint-Trojan-d’Oléron, 272.

  Saint-Valéry-en-Caux (Calvados), 387.

  ST VINCENT-DE-PAUL, 1581–1660, 180.

  SALADIN (Salâh al-Dîn al-Ayyûbî), Arab leader, 1138–1193, 212.

  Salamanca (Spain), 477.

  SALAMMBO, eponymous heroine of a novel by Gustave Flaubert (1862), 267.

  SALINAS-LUKASIEWICZ (Juan Maria), 284.

  SALINI (Léon), Mme de Beaumont’s lawyer, 139, 142, 143.

  Salle Erard, 19.

  SALMASIUS, 289.

  SALMON, cleaning firm, 394.

  Salzburg (Austria), 40.

  Samarkand (Uzbekistan), 406.

  SAMBIN (Hugues), sixteenth-century architect, 447.

  Sampang, type of perfume, 144, 145.

  SAMUEL (Henri), Belgian publisher, 59.

  SANCHEZ DEL ESTERO (Alvero), 376.

  SANCHO PANZA, character in Cervantes, 52.

  SANCTIS (G. de), Italian historian, 409.

  San Diego (California), 581.

  San Francisco (California), 167.

  Santa Catalina Island (California), 336, 385.

  Santa Monica (California), 499.

  Santé, prison, 400.

  São Paolo Island, 179.

  Saponite, brand of washing powder, 61.

  SARAFIAN (Arpad), photographer, 481.

  Saratoga, Indian tribe, 453.

  Saratoga (NY), 175.

  SAROYAN (William), American writer, 362.

  SARTRE (Jean-Paul), French writer, 1905–1980, 460, 487.

  SATCH MOUTH, Indian, 453.

  Saumur (Maine-et-Loire), 154.

  Savings Bank, 491.

  SAXE (Maurice, comte de), maréchal de France, 1696–1750, 88, 94.

  SAXO GRAMMATICUS, Danish historian, c.1150–c. 1206, 449.

  Saxony, 421.

  SCALIGER (Joseph), humanist teacher, 1540–1609, 289.

  Scandinavia, 337.

  SCARECROW PUBLISHING Co., 73.

  SCHAPSKA (Philoxanthe), composer, 271.

  SCHARF-HAINISCH (Oskar), philologist, 263.

  Scheldt (river), 52.

  SCHLENDRIAN, French general, 47, 48.

  SCHLENDRIAN, cowrie smuggler, 46, 47.

  SCHLIEMANN (Heinrich), German archaeologist, 1822–1890, 8.

  SCHMETTERLING (Morris), American composer, 208.

  SCHMITT (Florent), French composer, 1870–1958, 367.

  SCHNABEL (Arthur), Austrian pianist, 1882–1951, 367.

  SCHOENER (Johannes), sixteenth-century German astronomer, 206.

  SCHÖNBERG (Arnold), Austrian composer, 1874–1951, 19, 228.

  SCHRODER, character in Schulz’s Peanuts, 286.

  SCHULZ (Charles M.), American cartoonist, 286.

  SCHUMAN (Robert), European politician, 1886–1953, 457.

  SCHUMANN (Clara, née Wieck), 394.

  SCHUMANN (Robert), German composer, 1810–1856, 19.

  SCHWANN (Madame), 23.

  SCHWANZENBAD-HODENTHALER (Léopold-Rudolph von), Austrian general, 288.

  Science et Vie, popular science magazine, 160.

  Scipio Africanus, opera by J. S. Kusser, 21.

  SCIPION (Robert), cruciverbist, 229, 335.

  SCOPAS, Greek sculptor, late 5th century BC, 132.

  SCORESBY (William), English seafarer, 1760–1829, 289.

  Scotch Are Gunning, The, novel by Paul Winther, 68.

  Scotland, 56, 300, 324, 335.

  Scotsman, The, Edinburgh daily, 385.

  SCOTT (Sir Walter), Scots writer, 1771–1832, 495.

  Scottish Daily Mail, Glasgow daily, 385.

  SCRAMBLED EGGS, a spaniel, 383, 469.

  SCUDERY (Madeleine de), French novelist, 1607–1701, 175.

  Sculptures de Franz Hutting, Les, book by J. Bosseur, 34.

  Scythia, 14.

  Second Empire (1852–1870), 288, 317, 340, 364.

  SECRETAN (Charles), Swiss philosopher, 1815–1895, 199.

  Secret Bulls and the Question of the Antipopes, 9.

  SEEN-BY-HER-NATION, Sitting Bull’s squaw, 453.

  SEGESVAR, a side-kick, character in G. Berger’s story, 159.

  SEGUR (Sophie Rostopchin, countess of), French children’s writer, 1799–1874, 323.

  Seine (River), 69,289.

  SELIM III (Sultan), world archery champion, 9, 230.

  Semailles et les Moissons, Les, novel cycle by Henri Troyat, 144, 145.

  Semaine de Suzette, La, 396.

  Semaine Théâtrale, La, 103, 242.

  Seminoles, Indian tribe in Florida, 412.

  Senegal, 198, 258.

  Senlis (Oise), 116.

  Sensations, nude magazine, 199.

  Sept-Iles, 272.

  SEPTIMIA OCTAVILLA, sister of the following, 279.

  SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS (Lucius Septimius Severus Aurelius Antoninus), Roman Emperor, 146–211 AD, 279, 283.

  SERES (Georges), racing cyclist, 351.

  SERGIUS SULPICIUS GALBA, praetor, 62, 64.

  Servants, The, obscene print, 104.

  SERVIUS SULPICIUS GALBA, Roman Emperor, 64.

  Seven Crimes of Azincourt, The, detective novel, 52.

  Seventh Crack Shot of Saratoga, The, detective novel by J. W. London (Arnold Flexner), 175.

  Seville (Spain), 384.

  Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine), 18.

  Seychelles, 55, 56, 126.

  SFORZI (Alberto), pseudonym of Rémi Rorschach, 43.

  Shadai, 409.

  Shah of Persia, 284.

  SHAHRIYAR, Sultan, 321.

  SHAKESPEARE (William), English playwright, 1564–1616, 171, 364, 484 & n.

  SHALAKO, General, US Army, 73.

  SHANDON, English banker, 400.

  SHANDY (Walter), Tristram Shandy’s father, 399.

  Shanghai (China), 294.

  Shannon (airport) (Eire), 426.

  SHAW (J. P.), Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University, 85–94.

  SHEARER (Moira), English ballerina, 444.

  Sheffield (S. Yorkshire), 99, 581.

  SHERATON (Thomas), English carpenter, 1750–1805, 415, 422?

  SHERIDAN (Richard Brinsley Butler), English playwright, 1751–1816, 35.

  Sheridan (Wyoming), 330.

  SHERWOOD (Emily), 390.

  SHERWOOD (James), 81–95, 115, 126, 388, 494.

  SHERWOOD (Priscilla), see Priscilla Bartlebooth.

  SHERWOOD (William), 390.

  Shira Nami (The White Wave), see The Three Free Men, 11.

  Shiraz (Iran), 371.

  Siberia, 212.

  Sierra de Magina (Spain), 8.

  SIGIMER, figure of German mythology, 34.

  SIGISMOND, a hamster, 395n.

  SIGONIUS, 289.

  Silbermann, by J. de Lacretelle, 172.

  SILBERSELBER, American painter, 151.

  SILENUS, 421.

  Silver Arrow, rail/air cross-Channel service, 441.

  Silver Glen of Alva, a Panamanian tanker, 178.

  SILVESTRE (Israël), French artist, 1621–1691, 26.

  SIMON (Samuel), woodseller and developer, 470.

  SIMONE, Bartlebooth’s former kitchen maid, 114.

  SIMPSON (Grégoire), 59, 234–241.

  Sioux, 453.

  SITTING BULL, Indian chief, 453.

  Sixteenth Edge of this Cube, The, television programme, 13, 63, 64.

  Sketch History of Renal Theories, A, by LeBran-Chastel, 480.

  SKRIFTER (Ingeborg), see Ingeborg Stanley, 148, 308.

  Skye (Scotland), 335.

  SLAUGHTER (Grace), see Grace Twinker, 259.

  SLEEPING RABBIT, Cheyenne chief, 453.

  SLOWBURN (Joy), see Ingeborg Stanley, 307.

  Slumbering Wabash, song by Sam Horton, 181.

  SMAUTF (Mortimer), Bartlebooth’s servant, 13, 16, 17, 21–23
, 27, 31, 51–58, 65, 113, 114, 117, 126–127, 162, 193, 212, 214, 227, 332, 338, 345, 346, 347, 368, 393, 432–435, 496, 499.

  Smeraldine, 375.

  Smith (Cyrus), character in Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, 25.

  SNARK, THE, character (?) in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, 415.

  SNOOPY, the dog in Schulz’s Peanuts, 395.

  SOBIESKI (Ursula), American novelist, 81, 95, 451, 496.

  Société Générale, a French bank, 194.

  Socotra, 126.

  SOELLI, Malay guide, 107.

  Sofia (Bulgaria), 85.

  Soft Drink Echo, The, trade journal, 30.

  Soissons (Aisne), 85.

  Solomon Islands, 347.

  Somersault, The, print, 409.

  Somme (river), 70.

  SOMNOLENTIUS, Bavarian theologian, fourteenth century, 289.

  SONNET (L.), map-maker, 198.

  Sorbonne, 134, 205.

  Soria (Spain), 424.

  Sottens, 471.

  SOUVAROFF, a chef, 293.

  Souvenir de Saint-Mouezy-sur-Eon, postcard, 69.

  Souvenirs of a Numismatist, by Florent Baillerger, 410.

  Soviet Union, see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

  SPADE (Cat), pseudonym of Jeffrey Ornette, American boxer, 175.

  Spain, 8, 10, 47, 52, 55, 98, 193, 208, 257, 258, 397, 425, 426.

  Spalato (Split) (Yugoslavia), 246.

  SPANIARDEL, a chemist, 185.

  SPEISS (Abel), known as “The Russian”, a retired vet, 415–416.

  SPENCER (Herbert), English philosopher, 1820–1903, 35.

  SPENGLER (Oswald), German thinker, 1880–1936, 173.

  Spice, or The Revenge of the Louvain Locksmith, 325.

  Spice Road, The, doctoral thesis by Adrien Jérôme, 204.

  Spilett (Gédéon), character in Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, 25, 233, 345.

  Spinning Top, The, waltz by E. de Dinteville, 50.

  Sri Lanka, 334.

  STAEL (Nicolas de), painter, 1914–1955, 429.

  Stalingrad (now Volgograd) (USSR), 58.

  Stalingrad Heroes’ Cross, 58.

  STÄMPFLI, Swiss stayer, 353.

  STANLEY, Sir John Franklin’s surgeon, 192.

  STANLEY (Blunt), 308–316.

  STANLEY (Ingeborg, née Skrifter), 308–316.

  Stanley’s Delight, brand of whisky, 455.

  STEEGMULLER (Francis), 581.

  STEFANI (L.), 263.

  STEFENSSON (Michael), President of Harvard University, 92–95.

  Steiermark (Austria), 108.

  STEINER (Jacques), Tyrolean lute-maker, 396.

  STELLA (Frank), American artist, 429.

  STENDHAL, pseudonym of Henri Beyle, French novelist, 1783–1842, 364, 484, 579.

  Stephanitos, a Greek freighter, 356.