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LEO X, Pope (1513–21): V 395.

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452–1519). His Last Supper: I 54, 234. Quoted on painting (cosa mentale): II 99. Gilberte’s plaits a work of art more precious than a sheet of flowers drawn by Leonardo: 103. Dark glaze of shadows among rocks as beautiful as Leonardo’s: 689. Albertine’s face hook-nosed as in one of his caricatures: V 97.

LEROI-BEAULIEU, Anatole, economist and member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques (1842–1912). Advises M’s father to stand for election to the Institut: III 199. Presses M’s father’s candidacy with Norpois: 302–3. His “stern Assyrian profile”: 303. Norpois seeks his support on behalf of Prince Von: 355.

LE SIDANER, French painter (1862–1939). Favourite artist of the Cambremers’ lawyer friend from Paris: IV 278, 284–86, 299.

LESPINASSE, Mlle de (1732–76). Famous for her salon, which rivalled that of her former patron Mme du Deffand (q.v.): II 232.

LEVERRIER, Urbain, French astronomer (1811–77): V 398.

LISZT, Franz, Hungarian composer (1811–86). His “St Francis preaching to the Birds” played at Mme de Saint-Euverte’s: I 466; Oriane has come up from Guermantes specially to hear it: 484. Once played at Mme de Villeparisis’s father’s château: II 392. Mme de Villeparisis and “Alix” both claim acquaintance with him: III 266.

LLOYD GEORGE, David, British statesman (1863–1944): VI 189.

LOMÉNIE, Louis de, French man of letters, frequenter of Mme Récamier’s salon (1815–78): II 63, 417.

LONGUEVILLE, Duchesse de, sister of the Great Condé: III 744, 780.

LOTI, Pierre, French novelist (1850–1923): III 286. Mention of Pêcheur d’Islande: V 257. Allusion to his L’île du Rêve: VI 190.

LOUBET, Emile, President of the Republic during the revision of the Dreyfus Case: IV 132; V 315; VI 191.

LOUIS VI, the Fat, King of France (1081–1137): II 416; III 717.

LOUIS IX (Saint Louis), King of France (1214–70): I 82–83, 212; III 725; IV 690.

LOUIS XI, King of France (1423–83): III 788, 793.

LOUIS XIII, King of France (1601–43): III 610, 755, 779; IV 690; V 310.

LOUIS XIV, King of France (1638–1715). Aunt Léonie’s routine resembles the “mechanics” of life at his court: I 165. Allusion to Racine’s fall from grace: II 188. Incidental allusions: 204, 476; III 391, 571, 580. The Duc de Guermantes’s rules of social behaviour compared to those of Louis XIV; anecdotes from Saint-Simon: 597–98. Further allusions: 719, 728, 740, 779, 782; IV 63, 78, 234. Charlus’s views on him; compared to the Kaiser: 471–72. Charlus’s great-great-grandmother at the Court of Versailles: 477–78 (cf. 666; VI 192). Further incidental allusions: V 405, 496, 905. His ignorance of genealogy, according to Saint-Simon: VI 193.

LOUIS XV, King of France (1710–74): III 719, 734; IV 111; V 671, 746–47, 755; VI 194.

LOUIS XVI, King of France (1754–93): III 120; IV 691.

LOUIS XVII, uncrowned king of France (1785-? 1795): VI 195.

LOUIS XVIII, King of France (1755–1824): III 255–56. Shows his faculty for forgetting the past by appointing Fouché (q.v.): 711.

LOUIS THE GERMANIC, son of Louis I (“the Pious”) and grandson of Charlemagne (804–76): I 83; III 347.

LOUIS-PHILIPPE, King of France (1773–1850): I 26, 144. His architectural “excretions”: 415. His conversational talent: II 394. The “pinchbeck age” of Louis-Philippe: III 719. Genealogical connexions: 735–36; IV 111. The Citizen King: V 392.

LOUIS BONAPARTE, Prince, nephew of the Princesse Mathilde. Officer in the Russian Imperial Guard: II 160.

LOUIS, Baron, Minister of Finance under Louis XVIII and Louis-Philippe (1755–1837). Quoted by Norpois: II 45 (cf. VI 196).

LOZÉ, French diplomat, Ambassador in Vienna 1893–7: V 856.

LUCINGE, Mme de, illegitimate daughter of the Duc de Berry: III 735 (cf. V 893).

LUINI, Bernardino, Milanese painter (c. 1475-c. 1533). Swann once resembled one of the three kings in his Adoration of the Magi: II 201. Swann compares a woman to a Luini portrait: V 516.

LULLY, Jean-Baptiste, Franco-Italian composer (1632–87). His “shrewd avarice