In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [287]
LABORI, Maître Fernand, counsel for Dreyfus and Zola. His oratorical style: III 529. Frequents Mme Verdurin’s salon during her Dreyfusard period: IV 199 (cf. 384; V 315–16).
LA BRUYÈRE, Jean de, French writer and moralist, author of Les Caractères (1645–96). Quotation from Du coeur: II 274, 462. Quotation by Charlus from Du coeur: 468. Françoise uses the verb plaindre in the same sense as La Bruyère: III 25. Loose quotation from De la mode: V 270. Quotation from Du coeur: VI 180.
LACHELIER, Jules, French philosopher (1832–1918): IV 438.
LACLOS, Choderlos de, French writer, author of Les Liaisons dangereuses (1741–1803). The “ultra-respectable” author of the “most appallingly perverse” book: V 511 (cf. VI 181).
LA FAYETTE, Mme de, French writer, author of La Princesse de Cleves (1634–92): II 670; letter from Mme de Sévigné about her death: III 408–9; IV 32; VI 182.
LAFENESTRE, Georges, French poet and critic (1837–1919): III 720.
LA FONTAINE, Jean de, French poet (1621–95). Allusion by Charlus to The Two Friends and The Two Pigeons: II 467. Reference to The Miller and his Son: III 737. M. de Cambremer knows only one of his fables: IV 427; this is The Man and the Snake: 440; but he also seems to know The Camel and the Floating Sticks: 493 (cf. V 312). Quoted by Brichot: V 443. Rachel recites his Two Pigeons: VI 183.
LAMARTINE, Alphonse de, French poet and statesman (1790–1869). Recited poems in Mme de Villeparisis’s father’s château: II 392. A subject for the literary ladies of the aristocracy: III 263: Occasionally quoted by Mme de Guermantes: 279. Sneered at by Bloch: 328; IV 319.
LAMBALLE, Princesse de, friend of Marie-Antoinette, victim of the September massacres (1792): III 770.
LANDRU, famous French murderer: V 269.
LANNES, Marshal, general in the Napoleonic armies (1769–1809): III 146.
LA PEROUSE, French navigator (1741–88): I 488.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François VI, Duc de, Prince de Marcillac, author of the Maxims (1613–80). Legrandin finds a resemblance to him in Mme de Villeparisis: III 269. Brichot refers to him as “that Boulangist de Marcillac”: IV 372. An apocryphal maxim quoted by Charlus: V 407–8.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François VII, Duc de, Master of the Royal Hounds, son of the above. Saint-Simon appalled to find him hobnobbing with his lackeys: VI 184.
LA TOUR, Quentin de, French portraitist (1704–88). Albertine resembles one of his pastels: V 470. His works destroyed by the revolutionaries: VI 185.
LAVOISIER, Antoine, French scientist (1743–94). His name invoked by Swann apropos of Vinteuil’s creative genius: I 499.
LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas, English painter (1769–1830). Referred to in the Goncourt pastiche: VI 186.
LAWRENCE O’TOOLE, Saint, Archbishop and patron of Dublin (c. 1127–1180). Referred to in one of Brichot’s etymological dissertations: IV 392.
LE BATTEUX, Abbé, French grammarian (1713–80): V 302.
LEBOURG, Art Nouveau furniture-maker: II 460.
LEBRUN, Pierre-Antoine, French poet (1785–1873): II 395; III 372; VI 187.
LECONTE DE LISLE, French poet (1818–94). Revered by Bloch (“my beloved master, old Leconte”): I 124 (cf. II 447, 475, 659). Quoted on the sea: II 391, 659. His authentic Greek spelling, copied by Bloch: IV 319. The moon in his poetry: V 551. (Passages inspired by his translation of Homer: IV 319; and by Hesiod’s Orphic Hymns: IV 324.)
LEGOUVÉ, Ernest, Permanent Secretary of the Académie Française (1807–1903): II 7.
LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm, German philosopher (1646–1716): III 356. The salons of the Faubourg Saint-Germain likened to his monads: 656. Not modern enough for Mme de Cambremer: IV 437–38.
LELOIR, Maurice, 19th-century Salon painter. Mme Cottard compares him to Machard (q.v.): I 534.
LEMAIRE, Gaston, French composer (1854–1928): III 619.
LEMAÎTRE, Frédérick, French actor (1800–1876). Françoise’s “stage effects” compared to his: III 492.Î
LENIN, Russian revolutionary and statesman (1870–1924): VI 188.
LE NÔTRE, André, French garden designer (1613–1700). Charlus speaks of