In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [281]
COPPÉE, François, French poet (1842–1908): III 692.
COQUELIN, Constant, French actor (1841–1909): I 102. Seen in the Bois de Boulogne: I 595–96. His mulatto friend: II 149. M. Bloch senior’s irony at his expense: 486. Plays beginners’ roles in gala performances: IV 659. His view of Molière’s Le Misanthrope: VI 135.
CORNEILLE, Pierre, French dramatist (1606–84). Quotation from La Mort de Pompée: I 35; II 485. Quotation from Polyeucte, attributed by Bloch to Voltaire: II 628. Françoise uses the word ennui in the Cornelian sense: III 15. Political dissertations in his tragedies: 260. His “intermittent, restrained” romanticism: 753.
CORNÉLY, Jean-Joseph, French journalist (1845–1907). Although a monarchist, campaigned for the revision of the Dreyfus trial: III 799.
COROT, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, French painter (1796–1875). Swann owns one of his paintings: I 28, 33.
COUTURE, Thomas, French painter (1815–79). Allusion to his picture Les Romains de la Décadence: V 382.
COYSEVOX, Antoine, French sculptor (1640–1720): III 264.
CRÉBILLON fils, licentious novelist (1707–77): III 371.
DAGNAN-BOUVERET, academic French painter (1852–1929) admired by Norpois: III 299.
DANTE (Dante Alighieri), Italian poet (1265–1321). Strainings and contortions of water-lilies in the Vivonne reminiscent of the “peculiar torments” of the damned in the Inferno: I 238. The Verdurins and their “little clan” the “nethermost circle of Dante” (Swann): 408. Reading-room of the Grand Hotel alternately the Paradiso and the Inferno: II 329; III 270; VI 136.
DARIUS, King of Persia: II 107, 483; III 254; V 53.
DARU, Pierre Bruno, Quartermaster-General of Napoleon’s Grand Army and later Academician (1767–1829): II 395.
DARWIN, Charles, British scientist (1809–82): III 486, 709; IV 40–41; VI 137.
DAUDET, Alphonse, French writer (1840–97). Mention of Tartarin de Tarascón: V 257.
DAUDET, Léon, French journalist and novelist, son of the above (1867–1942): II 8; V 398; VI 138. (See the dedication to The Guermantes Way.)
DAUDET, Mme Léon. See Pampille.
DAVID, Jacques-Louis, French painter (1748–1825): VI 139.
DAVIOUD, Gabriel (1823–81), architect of the Trocadéro: V 217.
DEBUSSY, Claude, French composer (1862–1918). Mme de Cambremer’s enthusiasm for Pelléas: IV 285–93 (cf. 300, 467, 481). Debussy and Wagner: 290–91. On the “wrong” side in the Dreyfus Case: 384. Morel plays Meyerbeer for Debussy: 481. M. de Chevregny finds Pelléas trivial: 662. The street-criers’ cadences remind M of Pelléas: V 147.
DECAMPS, Alexandre-Gabriel, French orientalist painter (1803–60). Bloch as exotic-looking as a Jew in a Decamps painting: III 253. War-time Paris reminds Charlus of the Orient of Decamps: VI 140.
DECAZES, Duc, minister and favourite of Louis XVIII. Mme de Villeparisis’s grandfather reluctant to invite him to a ball: III 256.
DEFFAND, Mme du (1697–1780). Famous for her salon: II 232.
DEGAS, Edgar, French painter (1834–1917). Mme de Cambremer’s enthusiasm for him: IV 285. His admiration for Poussin: 287. Nissim Bernard’s type of “dancer” still lacks a Degas: 328–30.
DELACROIX, Eugène, French painter (1798–1863). War-time Paris reminds Charlus of his oriental scenes: VI 141. Loathed by Mme de Guermantes: 495.
DELAROCHE, Paul, French painter (1797–1856). Reference by M. de Guermantes to his Princes in the Tower: III 686.
DELAUNAY, Comédie-Française actor (1826–1903): I 102; VI 142.
DELCASSÉ, Théophile, French statesman, architect of the Entente Cordiale (1852–1923): V 487.
DELTOUR, Nicolas-Félix, Inspector-General of Secondary Education, author of Principles of Style and Composition (1822–1904). Recommended by Andrée as an authority to quote in exams: II 675.
DERBY, Lord (Edward Henry Smith Stanley), British statesman (1826–93). Cited on the Irish question: III 238.
DÉROULÈDE, Paul, ultra-nationalist French politician and poet (1846–1914): VI 143.
DESCARTES, René, French philosopher (1596–1650): V 465 (cf. II 437).
DESCHANEL, Paul, French statesman