In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [282]
DESHOULIÈRES, Mme, French poetess (1638–94): III 674.
DESJARDINS, Paul, French critic and philosopher (1859–1940). Quoted by Legrandin: I 167–8.
DETAILLE, Edouard, painter of military scenes (1848–1912): III 588; IV 47–48.
DETHOMAS, Maxime, French painter (1867–1929). His “superb studies” of Venice: V 848.
DIAGHILEV, Serge (1872–1929). Impresario of the Russian Ballet: IV 194, 420–21.
DIANE DE POITIERS, favourite of Henri II: IV 15.
DIANTI, Laura, Italian Renaissance beauty, second wife of Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara. Albertine’s hair compared to hers during the game of “ferret” (Proust was evidently thinking of Titian’s Young Woman at her Toilet in the Louvre, for which Laura was then thought to have been the sitter): II 683.
DIEULAFOY, Professor Georges, French physician (1839–1911). Called in to attend M’s grandmother on her death-bed: III 459–60, 466–68.
DIEULAFOY, Mme Jeanne, French archaeologist (1851–1916): II 483.
DOSTOIEVSKY, Feodor, Russian novelist (1821–81). “Abominated” by Bergotte: II 177. The Dostoievsky side of Mme de Sévigné: 315 (cf. V 508–10). His novels “hoarded” by Albertine: V 432. His “new kind of beauty”: 508–13. Charlus and Dostoievsky: VI 145. Rasputin’s murder a Dostoievsky incident in real life: 126–27. His way of telling a story: 366.
DOUCET, Dress designer. Approved of by Elstir: II 655; and by Mme de Guermantes: V 47, 76.
DOUDAN, Ximenès, French writer, secretary to the Duc de Broglie (1800–72): II 418; III 372.
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan, British writer (1859–1930). “It s pure Sherlock Holmes”: V 615.
DREYFUS, Alfred. See under Dreyfus Case in Index of Themes.
DRIANT, Colonel, right-wing politician and military commentator (under the pseudonym Capitaine Danrit) during the Dreyfus Case: III 332.
DRUMONT, EDOUARD, ANTI-SEMITIC POLITICIAN AND JOURNALIST (1844–1917): III 393; V 46.
DU CAMP, Maxime, French man of letters (1822–94): II 7.
DUGUAY-TROUIN, Rene, French sailor (1673–1736). His statue in Balbec: II 330; IV 232.
DUMAS fils, Alexandre, French novelist and playwright (1802–70). Reference to his play Les Danicheff: I 304; and to Francillon: 363–64; II 157. Admired by Mme de Guermantes: III 679 (cf. VI 146).
DUMONT D’URVILLE, Jules, French navigator (1790–1842): I 488.
DUPANLOUP, Monseigneur, French prelate, orator and polemicist (1802–78): III 259; IV 162; VI 147.
EDWARD VII, King of England (1841–1910). Mme de Guermantes gives a reception for him and his wife: III 588, 619. Reviled by Prince Von, defended by Mme de Guermantes: 723–24. At Guermantes: V 794.
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE, wife of Henry II Plantagenet, King of England (1122–1204): II 683.
ELIOT, George, English novelist (1819–80). Disliked by Bergotte: II 177. Andrée translates one of her novels: 714. Her name crops up in M’s dreams: V 155.
ELISABETH, Madame, sister of Louis XVI: III 770.
ELISABETH, Empress of Austria, daughter of Maximilian-Joseph, Duke of Bavaria, sister of Sophie, Duchesse d’Alençon and Maria, Queen of Naples: III 252. Allusion to her death (in a riding accident) in 1898: 698. Referred to in connexion with the Queen of Naples’ visit to the Verdurins’ musical soirée: V 328, 414.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, American philosopher (1803–82). Subject OF conversation at lunch with Rachel: III 377.
ENESCO, Georges, Romanian violinist (1881–1955): V 383.
ENGALLY, Speranza, Italian opera singer: IV 486.
ESTE, Isabella d’ (1474–1539): III 719.
ESTERHAZY, Major, one of the principal actors in the Dreyfus Case: III 135, 322–23, 326.
EUGÈNE, Prince, Austrian general (1663–1736). An invert?: V 406.
EUGÉNIE, Empress, wife of Napoleon III (1826–1920): IV 142–43.
EULENBURG, Prince, friend and adviser of the Kaiser William II. Reference to a homosexual scandal in which he was involved: IV 471.
FABRE, J-H, French entomologist (1823–1915): I 173; III 490 (allusion).
FAGON, Louis XIV’s doctor: VI 148.
FALKENHAUSEN, Frédéric Ludwig, General von (1869–1936): III 144.
FALLIERES, Armand, President of the Republic 1906–13: III 431.
FANTIN-LATOUR, Théodore, French