In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [285]
HALS, Frans, Dutch painter (c. 1580–1666). Allusion to one of his masterpieces, The Women Regents of the Haarlem Almshouse: I 361. Discussed at the Guermantes dinner-party: III 717–21, 745, 752.
HANDEL, George Frideric, German composer (1685–1759): V 284.
HANSKA, Comtesse. Balzac’s “l’Etrangère,” whom he married in 1850: IV 614.
HARCOURT, Alphonse-Henri-Charles de Lorraine-Elbeuf, Prince d’ (1648–79). His familiarity with his lackeys deplored by Saint-Simon: VI 166.
HARDY, Thomas, English novelist and poet (1840–1928). The “stonemason’s geometry” in his novels (cf. Vinteuil’s “key-phrases”): V 507.
HARUN AL-RASHID, Caliph of Baghdad 786–809: VI 167.
HAUSSONVILLE, Louis-Bernard, Comte d’ (1770–1840). Denies knowing Necker, father of Mme de Staël; subsequent connexion of his family with Mme de Staël through the Broglies: VI 168 (cf. III 783–84; VI 169).
HÉBERT, Ernest, academic French painter (1817–1908) admired by Norpois: III 299.
HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, German philosopher (1770–1831): VI 170.
HELLEU, Paul, French painter and engraver (1859–1927) (said to have been one of the models for Elstir): IV 459.
HELVÉTIUS, Claude-Adrien, one of the philosophes of the French Enlightenment (1715–71): V 315.
HENRI IV, King of France 1589–1610: III 43, 689; V 895. Allusion to his father, Antoine de Bourbon: III 744.
HENRI V, See Chambord, Comte de.
HENRY VIII, King of England 1509–47. Allusion to his encounter with François I on the Field of Cloth of Gold: III 640 (cf. I 567).
HENRY, Colonel, one of the principal actors in the Dreyfus Case whose suicide on 31 August 1898 was its most dramatic episode: III 315, 325–26; IV 147; VI 171.
HÉRÉDIA, José-Maria de, French poet (1842–1905): II 447.
HERVEY DE SAINT-DENIS, Marquis d’, French sinologist and man of letters (1823–92): IV 159.
HERVIEU, Paul, French dramatist (1857–1915). An outspoken Dreyfusist: V 313.
HINDENBURG, Field-Marshal von, Chief of the German General Staff 1916–18: VI 172.
HIRSCH, Baron, German Jewish banker and philanthropist (1831–96): IV 92.
HOGARTH, William, English painter and engraver (1697–1764). Albertine’s English “Miss” resembles a portrait of Judge Jeffreys by Hogarth: II 557.
HOHENFELSEN, Countess, morganatic wife of the Russian Grand Duke Paul: VI 173.
HOMER, Greek epic poet: III 259, 346, 446, 571, 684. Bloch’s archaic Greek names for Homer’s gods, borrowed from Leconte de Lisle: IV 319 (cf. I 124–25; II 444–46, 478). References to the Odyssey: VI 174.
HOOCH, Pieter de, Dutch painter (1630–81). Vinteuil’s “little phrase” recalls effects in his interiors: I 308.
HORACE, Roman poet. Reasons for the pleasure of reading his odes: II 460–61. His sycophancy to Maecenas, according to Brichot: IV 478. Brichot recites to himself a Horatian ode: V 443.
HOYOS, Count, Austrian Ambassador in Paris: III 670; V 372.
HUGO, Victor, French poet, novelist and dramatist (1802–85): I 108; II 7, 144. Disparaged by Mme de Villeparisis; M quotes to her a line from Booz endormi: 394, 395, 410–12, 418. His dramatic works compared unfavourably to Racine’s by Charlus; Saint-Loup finds this “a bit thick”: 469. The Comtesse de Noailles’s verse compared to his: III 137–38. Quotation from Ultima verba (Les Châtiments): 607. Discussed at the Guermantes’ dinner-table: 674–75. Mme d’Arpajon’s opinion of him; reference to Lorsque l’enfant paraît …: 674 (cf. IV 68). Mme de Guermantes’ opinion of him; quotes lines from Les Contemplations and Les Feuilles d’automne: 679–80; quotes Booz endormi: 726 (cf. 279, 680, 752). The earlier and the later Hugo; the former supplies “thoughts” (pensées) instead of food for thought: 752–53. M re-reads him; Françoise’s footman has purloined his copy of Les Feuilles d’automne: 754. Charlus quotes Booz endormi: 770. Allusion to Tristesse d’Olympio: IV 611, 615–16. Charlus quotes from Les Chants du Crépuscule: 730. La Légende des Siècles an example of the retrospective unity imposed on their works by great writers of the 19th century: V 207 (cf. 351). Reference to Hernani (Doña Sol): 382. Surrounds