In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [280]
CHABRIER, Emmanuel, French composer (1841–94). Quoted by Mme Verdurin: V 420.
CHAIX D’EST-ANGE, French lawyer and politician (1800–76): III 813.
CHAMBORD, Comte de, Pretender to the throne of France under the name Henri V (1820–83): III 389; IV 691; V 37 (allusion to Frohsdorf, where he lived in exile from 1841 until his death).
CHAMISSO, German writer (1781–1838), author of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: II 482.
CHAPLIN, Charles Josuah, French society portrait-painter (1825–91): VI 127.
CHARCOT, Dr Jean Martin, French neurologist (1825–93): III408; IV 378, 487, 663.
CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste, French painter (1699–1779): II 309. Elstir and Chardin: III 574–75 (cf. VI 128); V 848.
CHARLES VI, King of France (136&-1422): I 81.
CHARLES X, King of France (1757–1836): IV 144, 691; V 42.
CHARTRES, Duc de, grandson of Louis-Philippe and younger brother of the Comte de Paris (1840–1910). Friend of Swann: I 441; II 125 (cf. IV 104, 106). His attitude to the Dreyfus Case: III 327–28. M. de Bréauté lunches with him: 590. Charlus his cousin: IV 691.
CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René de, French writer and statesman (1768–1848). His genius; “marvellous pages of Chateaubriand”: II 72, 127. Bergotte’s opinion of him: 177. Mme de Villeparisis’s reminiscences of him: 394, 410–11. Quoted by M: 410–11. His ready-made speech on moonlight: 411 (cf. V 550). Chez Mme Récamier at L’Abbaye-aux-Bois: IV 373. Attacked by Brichot, defended by Charlus: 612–14. Local legends related in the Mémoires d’Outre-tombe: V 36. His writings “insufficiently confidential” (Sainte-Beuve quoted by Brichot): 442. The moon in Chateaubriand: 550. M. de Guermantes finds traces of his “antiquated prose” in M’s Figaro article: 796. Reflexions on the Mémoires d’Outre-tombe) examples of involuntary memory such as will inspire M’s own book: VI 129.
CHÂTELET, Mme du, friend and patroness of Voltaire (1706–49): IV 373.
CHERBULIEZ, Victor, French novelist and Academician (1829–99). Norpois compares him favourably to Bergotte: III 299.
CHEVREUSE, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de (1600–79), formerly married to the Connétable de Luynes: III 269.
CHEVREUSE, Charles-Honoré d’Albert, Duc de (1646–1712), son of the Duc de Luynes and grandson of the Connétable: III 597 (cf. 741).
CHOISEUL, Duchesse de. See Praslin.
CHOPIN, Frédéric, Polish composer (1810–49). A prelude and a polonaise played at Mme de Saint-Euverte’s; Mme de Cambremer’s delight in his “long, sinuous” phrases: I 471, 476 (cf. II 507). Once played in Mme de Villeparisis’s father’s château: II 392. Despised by Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin, and worshipped by her mother-in-law: IV 288–94, 301, 468, 509. Charlus missed hearing him play: 554–55.
CLAPISSON, Louis, French composer (1808–66): I 428.
CLAUDEL, Paul, French poet and diplomat (1868–1955): II 7, 475; III 444.
CLAUSEWITZ, General Karl von, German military theorist (1780–1831): VI 130.
CLEMENCEAU, Georges, French statesman (1841–1929): III 332, 402; praised by Swann: 798–99; his Dreyfusism unknown to the younger generation: VI 131.
CLÉMENTINE, Princesse, daughter of Louis-Philippe, mother of Ferdinand of Bulgaria by her marriage to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: III 328.
CLERMONT-TONNERRE, Duchesse Emilie de. Author of a book on country food: III 690; IV 557.
COMBES, Emile, French politician (1835–1921) who introduced anti-clerical laws when Prime Minister between 1902 and 1905: VI 132.
CONDÉ, Louis II, Prince de (known as “the Great”) (1621–86): III 780; IV 483. Charlus and Brichot on his alleged homosexuality: V 405–6.
CONSTANTINE, King of Greece 1913–22, known familiarly as “Tino”: VI 133.
CONTI, Louis-Armand de Bourbon, Prince de, nephew of the Great Condé (1661–1685). His marriage to a bastard daughter of Louis XIV (Mlle de Blois) cited in connexion with the marriage of Mile d’Oloron and the young Cambremer: V 905.
CONTI, François-Louis de Bourbon, Prince de, brother of the above (1664–1709). Echoes of Saint-Simon’s portrait of him in Charlus’s treatment of his menservants: III 758. An invert?: V 406.