In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [284]
GENLIS, Mme de, woman of letters; governess to the future Louis-Philippe (1746–1830): V 511.
GEOFFRIN, Mme (1699–1777). Famous for her salon: III 569.
GÉRAULT-RICHARD, Socialist Deputy and Dreyfusard activist: III 330.
GÉRÔME, Jean-Léon, French painter and sculptor (1824–1904): II 109.
GHIRLANDAIO, Florentine painter (1449–98): Swann identifies M. de Palancy’s nose in one of his pictures: I 315.
GIOLITTI, Giovanni, Italian statesman (1842–1928). His name invoked by Norpois in conversation with Prince Foggi in Venice: V 861–62. Norpois calls Caillaux “the Giolitti of France”: VI 159.
GIORGIONE, Italian painter (c. 1478–1510): I 556–58; III 584. Mme Putbus’s maid “wildly Giorgionesque”: IV 129, 206; V 516–17.
GIOTTO, Italian painter (c. 1266–1337). The Vices and Virtues in the Arena Chapel in Padua; Swann gives M photographs of them; the pregnant housemaid resembles the figure of “Charity”: I 110–13, 169–72. M. de Palancy and his monocle remind Swann of the figure of “Injustice”: 465. M identifies Florence with the genius of Giotto: 554. The procession of the “little band” recalls Giotto: II 528. Albertine playing diabolo resembles his “Idolatry”: 637. The allegorical figures appear in M’s sleep: III 192. M and his mother visit the Arena Chapel: V 878–79.
GLEYRE, Charles, Swiss painter (1806–74): I 206.
GLUCK, Christoph Willibald von, German composer (1714–87): III 644; IV 694. Quotation from his Armide attributed to Rameau: V 148.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, German poet (1749–1832): III 346; V 819; VI 160.
GOGOL, Nikolai, Russian writer (1809–52): V 509.
GONCOURT, the brothers Edmond (1822–96) and Jules (1830–70), novelists, critics and diarists. M reads a newly published volume of their Journal: VI 161 pastiche of a passage therefrom: 27–38; M’s reflections on it: 38–43, 130, 238, 281.
GONDI, Paul de. See Retz, Cardinal de.
GORRINGE, General. Commander of the Relief Force that failed to rescue Kut-el-Amara in 1916: VI 162.
GOT, French actor (1822–1901): I 102.
GOYA, Francisco de, Spanish painter (1746–1828): I 462.
GOZZOLI, Benozzo, Florentine painter (1420–97). M’s father in his night-clothes resembles Abraham in a Gozzoli picture: I 49. Prominent members of the Medici family depicted in The Procession of the Magi: II 148; V 83.
GRANDMOUGIN, Charles, French playwright and librettist (1850–1930): III 619.
GRANIER, Jeanne, French actress (1852–1939): III 678.
GRECO, El, Spanish painter (c. 1541–1614). Admired by M’s father: II 382. Charlus resembles a Grand Inquisitor by El Greco: V 272. Paris during an air-raid compared to The Burial of Count Orgaz: VI 163.
GREGORY THE GREAT, Pope. Paris street-criers echo Gregorian chant: V 162, 176.
GRÉVILLE, Henry (Alice Fleury), French romantic novelist (1842–1902): II 233.
GRÉVY, Jules, President of the Republic 1879–87: I 304–6; V 906.
GRIBELIN, Registrar in the Bureau des Renseignements; testified against Dreyfus: III 324.
GRIGNAN, Mme de, daughter of Mme de Sévigné (1646–1705): II 467; V 11–12.
GUILBERT, Yvette, music-hall singer (1868–1944): IV 663.
GUILLAUMIN, Art Nouveau furniture-maker: II 460.
GUISE, Henri, Duc de (1550–88): II 167, 333; V 894.
GUIZOT, François, French statesman and historian (1787–1874): III 389.
GUTENBERG, Johannes, 15th-century inventor of printing by movable type: III 178; VI 164.
GUYS, Constantin, French graphic artist (1802–92): I 595.
HAAS, Charles. Friend of Proust. Wears the same hat as Swann: III 794. Identified with Swann: V 263.
HADRIAN, Roman emperor: IV 541.
HAHN, Reynaldo, French composer, friend of Proust (1875–1947). Allusion to Pierre Loti’s L’Île du Rêve, for which Hahn wrote the music: VI 165.
HALÉVY, Fromental, French composer (1799–1862). M’s grandfather hums passages from his opera La Juive: I 125; “Rachel when from the Lord”: II 207; another quotation from La Juive: IV 331.
HALÉVY, Ludovic (nephew of the above), novelist, playwright and librettist, collaborator of Meilhac (1834–1908). Admired by Mme de Guermantes: I 475; III 278, 678.