In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [283]
FAURÉ, Gabriel, French composer (1845–1924). Charlus and Morel play his piano and violin sonata: IV 479–80 (cf. V 357). His melody Le Secret: V 731.
FAVART, Charles-Simon, French dramatist (1710–92). His comedy La Chercheuse d’Esprit discussed at the Verdurins’: IV 451–56.
FEB VRE, Frédéric, Comédie-Française actor (1835–1916): I 102; III 167.
FÉNELON, François de Salignac de la Mothe-, French writer and prelate (1651–1715). Brichot on his “curious” definition of intelligence: I 370; II 462. Mme Poussin pronounces his name Fénélon: IV 232.
FÉNELON, Comte Bertrand de. M’s “dearest friend”: IV 231–32.
FERRY, Jules, French statesman (1832–93): II 722.
FEYDEAU, Georges, French playwright (1862–1921). Allusion to La Dame de chez Maxim (“ce n’est pas mon père”): II 478; III 19; Allusion to L’Hôtel du libre échange: VI 150.
FLAUBERT, Gustave, French novelist (1821–80): II 157. “Bourgeois through and through,” according to Mme de Guermantes: III 643. His letters superior to his books, according to Mme d’Arpajon, who forgets his name: 670–71. Phrases of Flaubert in Montesquieu: IV 291. Morel and L’Education sentimentale: V 210. It was not affection for the bourgeoisie that made him choose the themes of Madame Bovary and L’Education sentimentale: VI 151.
FLORIAN, Jean-Pierre Claris de (1755–94). Author of one of the two fables which M de Cambremer knows: IV 427, 441.
FOCH, Marshal (1851–1929), Generalissimo of the Allied armies in 1918: VI 152.
FOIX, Catherine de, Queen of Navarre (1470–1517): III 568.
FONTANES, Louis, Marquis de, French writer and politician, friend of Chateaubriand (1757–1821): II 395; IV 587.
FORTUNY, Venetian dress designer. Elstir speaks of him to M and Albertine: II 653. Mme de Guermantes wears his dresses: V 37, 48 (cf. 497). Albertine covets them; how they evoke the Venice of Carpaccio and Titian: 497–500. M plans to buy one for Albertine: 237, and orders six: 531, 537–38. Albertine’s Fortuny dressing-gown and two coats: 499–500, 546. Reawakens M’s nostalgia for Venice: 555. M sees the original of one of Albertine’s Fortuny coats in a Carpaccio in the Accademia: 877.
FOUCHÉ, Joseph (1759–1820), Minister of Police under Napoleon and Louis XVIII: III 711.
FOULD, Achille, French politician (1844–1924), Minister of Finance under Napoleon III: III 171.
FRAGONARD, French painter (1732–1806): V 124.
FRANCE, Anatole, French writer (1844–1924). Quoted by Legrandin on the subject of the Normandy coast: I 183. A star of Mme Verdurin’s salon?: V 314. Sylvestre Bonnard cited by Brichot: 444. “Our sweet master of delicious scepticism” (Brichot): VI 153.
FRANCK, César, Franco-Belgian composer (1822–90): IV 119,479. M asks Morel to play some Franck, causing acute pain to Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin: 480; V 860.
FRANÇOIS I, King of France (1494–1547): I 1; III 640.
FRANZ-JOSEF, Emperor of Austria-Hungary (1830–1916). His “cousinly relations” with Charlus: III 389. Charlus’s thoughts about him during the war: VI 154.
FREDERICK THE GREAT, King of Prussia (1712–86): III 144.
FREGOLI, Leopoldo, Italian mime (1867–1936): VI 155.
FROMENTIN, Eugène, French painter and writer (1820–76): III 445; VI 156.
GABRIEL, Jacques-Ange, architect of the palaces in the Place de la Concorde and of the Petit Trianon (1698–1782): II 83–84, 471.
GALLAND, Antoine, translator of the Arabian Nights (1646–1715): IV 318.
GALLÉ, Emile, artist in glass (1846–1904): II 522; III 537.
GALLIFET, General Marquis de, Minister of War 1899–1901: III 166; V 263; VI 157.
GALLI-MARIÉ, French opera singer (1840–1905): IV 486.
GAMBETTA, Léon, French statesman (1838–82). His funeral: I 304. Mme de Guermantes admires his letters: III 671.
GARNIER, Robert, French playwright (1544–90), author of Les Juives: II 673.
GARROS, Roland, French aviator (1888–1918): V 879.
GASQ-DESFOSSÉS, author of text-books for baccalauréat candidates published between 1886 and 1909: II 675.
GAUTIER, Théophile, French poet (1811