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HÜLST, Monseigneur d’, founder and Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris (1841–96): V 441.
HUXELLES, Nicolas du Blé, Marquis d’, Maréchal de France (1652–1730). Charlus impersonates him, after the portrait of him in Saint-Simon’s Memoirs: IV 499. Charlus quotes the Saint-Simon portrait in the context of his dissertation on 17th-century inverts: V 407.
HUXLEY, Aldous, English writer (1894–1964). Mentioned parenthetically in connexion with T. H. Huxley (see below): IV 50.
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry, English scientist (1825–95). Anecdote concerning one of his patients: IV 50.
HUYSUM, Jan van, Dutch flower painter (1682–1749): III 286.
IBSEN, Henrik, Norwegian dramatist (1828–1906). Disliked by Bergotte: II 177. Subject of conversation at lunch with Rachel: III 377. Presents the manuscripts of three of his plays to Mme Timoléon d’Amoncourt, who offers two of them to Mme de Guermantes: IV 89.
INDY, Vincent d’, French composer (1851–1931): IV 384, 444.
INGRES, Dominique, French painter (1780–1867). Shrinking of the “unbridgeable gulf” between him and Manet: III 575 (cf. 716: Mme de Guermantes’s view). M. de Guermantes cites La Source as against Elstir: 686. His orientalism: VI 176. Vicissitudes of Mme de Guermantes’s attitude to his work: 495.
IRVING, Sir Henry, English actor (1838–1905). Françoise’s “stage effects” compared to his: III 492.
ISVOLSKI, Alexander Pavlovich, Russian statesman (1856–1919), Ambassador in Paris 1910–17: IV 89.
JACQUET, Gustave-Jean, French painter (1846–1909). His portrait of Mme de Surgis-le-Duc: IV 128, 145–46, 729–30.
JAMMES, Francis, French poet (1868–1938). His name appears in M’s dream: IV 218.
JEAN SANS PEUR. Assassin of Duc Louis d’Orléans in 1407: IV 691.
JOFFRE, General, Chief of French General Staff 1911–14: VI 177.
JOHN OF AUSTRIA, Don, natural son of the emperor Charles V, defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto (1571): III 719.
JOINVILLE, Prince de, son of Louis-Philippe (1818–1900): III 251, 328, 519.
JOMINI, Henri, Baron. Swiss general and military theorist (1779–1869): VI 178.
JOUBERT, Joseph, French moralist (1754–1824). Recommended to Mme de Villeparisis by Legrandin: III 269, 754.
JUDET, Ernest, anti-Dreyfusist journalist: III 335.
JURIEN DE LA GRAVIERE, French admiral (1812–92). Mme de Varambon thinks he is related to M: III 681–83, 750.
JUSSIEU, Bernard de, French botanist (1699–1777): III 222.
KAISER. See William II.
KALIDASA, Hindu poet of the 1st century BC: II 485.
KANT, Immanuel, German philosopher (1724–1804). The “ordered and unalterable” design of Gilberte’s tea-parties recalls his necessary universe: II 107. Mme de Guermantes’s unconventional behaviour recalls his theories on freedom and necessity: III 654. Saint-Loup and Kant: 689. Brichot’s view of him (“Pomeranian mysticism”): V 376.
KESSLER, Count Harry, choreographer of The Legend of Joseph (1914): V 876–77.
KITCHENER, Lord, British general (1850–1916). Allusion to his homosexuality: V 406 (Note 20).
KOCK, Paul de, French novelist (1794–1871). Comparisons between him and Dostoievsky dismissed by M: V 509.
LA BALUE, Cardinal Jean (1421–91), Minister of Louis XI, by whom he was imprisoned for 10 years: II 333.
LABICHE, Eugène, French playwright (1814–88). Swann, in his tirade against the Verdurins, suggests that the “little clan” are like characters in a Labiche comedy: I 406. Saint-Loup’s intellectually snobbish attitude to his father suggests the possible attitude of a son of Labiche to his: II 427. Names that might have come out of Labiche: IV 99. Drinks no longer to be found except in his plays: 643. M. d