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Italian painter (c. 1445–1510). Odette’s resemblance to the figure of Zipporah in The Life of Moses in the Sistine Chapel: I 314–18, 330, 337–38; and to the women in some of his other paintings, including the Madonna with the Pomegranate: 398; the Primavera, the Vanna, and the Venus: 445; the Virgin in the Magnificat: II 264.

BOUCHARD, Charles, French physician (1837–1915): IV 487, 614.

BOUCHER, François, French painter (1703–70): II 459; III 9; V 124, 263–64.

BOUFFE DE SAINT-BLAISE, French obstetrician: IV 488.

BOUFFLERS, Duc de, Marshal of France (1644–1711). One of Charlus’s list of alleged 17th-century inverts: V 405.

BOULLE, André-Charles, French cabinet-maker (1642–1732). The Guermantes’ “marvellous Boulle furniture”: III 755.

BOURGOGNE, Duc de, grandson of Louis XIV and father of Louis XV (1682–1712): III 598; IV 477.

BOUTROUX, Emile, French philosopher (1845–1921). Quoted by the Norwegian philosopher: IV 447–48, 520–21.

BRESSANT, 19th-century French actor. Swann adopts his hairstyle: I 17; VI 120.

BREUGHEL the Elder, Peter, Flemish painter (c. 1520–69). Soldiers in the streets of Doncières resemble Breughel peasants: III 124.

BRISSAC, Henri-Albert de Cossé, Duc de, brother-in-law of Saint-Simon (1644–99). One of Charlus’s 17th-century inverts: V 405.

BROGLIE, Victor-Claude, Prince de (1757–94). Posthumous connexion with Mme de Staël: VI 121.

BROGLIE, Duc Victor de (son of the above), French statesman (1785–1870): I 26; III 259; his daughter marries the Comte d’Haussonville, 783; he himself had married the daughter of Mme de Staël: VI 122.

BROGLIE, Duc Albert de (son of the above), French statesman and historian (1821–1901). Author of Le Secret du Roi: V 731.

BROGLIE, Duchesse de, daughter of Mme de Staël and wife of Duc Victor de Broglie; her letters: III 373, 674, 679; her daughter and son-in-law: VI 123.

BRONZINO, Angiolo, Florentine painter (1503–63). Morel “so beautiful,” according to Charlus, “he looks like a sort of Bronzino”: V 284.

BRUANT, Aristide, Montmartre chansonnier (1851–1925): V 327.

BRUNETIÈRE, Ferdinand, French literary critic, Professor at the Sorbonne (1849–1906): III 338; IV 295; VI 124.

BRUNSWICK, Duke of, German prince and soldier (1624–1705). Another of Charlus’s alleged inverts of the 17th century: V 405.

CAILLAUX, Joseph, French politican (1863–1944). His foreign policy “severely trounced” in the Echo de Paris: IV 205. His trial for treason: VI 125.

CALLOT, dress designer. Approved of by Elstir: II 655–56, and by Mme de Guermantes: V 47.

CAPET, Lucien, French violinist (1873–1928): V 383.

CAPUS, Alfred, French dramatist (1858–1922). Reference to his La Châtelaine: IV 662.

CARNOT, Lazare, mathematician and revolutionary, “the organiser of victory” (1753–1823): III 803.

CARNOT, Sadi, President of the French Republic from 1887 until his assassination in 1894: II 360; III 802–3.

CARO, Eime Marie, French philosopher (1826–87): IV 295.

CARPACCIO, Vittore, Venetian painter (1450–1525). Tender sweetness in pomp and joy expressed in certain of his paintings: I 251. San Giorgio degli Schiavoni: II 14 (cf. V 868–69). Elstir on his paintings of regattas on the Grand Canal: 652–54 (cf. V 497). “Speaking likenesses” of his friends or patrons: III 575. His reliquaries: 735. His courtesans: V 508. M and his mother admire his pictures in Venice; his St Ursula and The Patriarch of Grado (Albertine’s Fortuny cloak): 876–77. War-time Paris as exotic as his Venice: VI 126.

CARRIèRE, Eugène, French painter (1849–1906). Admired by Saint-Loup (portrait of his Aunt Oriane at Guermantes): II 457 (cf. III 755).

CARVALHO, Mlle, French opera singer (1827–95): III 638.

CASTELLANE, Mme de, Mme de Villeparisis’s Aunt Cordelia (née Greffulhe). Admired by Chateaubriand, married Colonel (later Marshal) Comte Boniface de Castellane: III 372.

CAVAIGNAC, Jacques Godefroy, French politician, extreme anti-Dreyfusard, twice Minister of War during the Dreyfus Case (1853–1905): III 326.

CELLINI, Benvenuto, Italian sculptor and metalsmith (1500–71). A Saint-Euverte footman resembles his statue of an