In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [289]
LUTHER, Martin, German religious reformer (1483–1546): III 347.
MACHARD, Jules-Louis, French painter (1839–1900). Mme Cottard speaks to Swann of one of his portraits which “the whole of Paris is rushing to see”: I 533–34.
MACK, General, Austrian commander against Napoleon. His defeat at Ulm: III 149.
MACMAHON, Marshal (1808–93), President of the Republic 1873–79. Mme de Villeparisis related to him: I 26 (cf. II 360).
MADAME. See Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth of Bavaria, Duchesse d’.
MAECENAS, patron of Virgil and Horace. Cited by Brichot; Charlus describes him as “the Verdurin of antiquity”: IV 478, 481.
MAES, Nicolaes, Dutch painter (1632–93). A painting attributed to him by the Mauritshuis in reality a Vermeer, in Swann’s view [subsequently confirmed by the experts]: I 502.
MAETERLINCK, Maurice, Belgian poet and playwright (1862–1949). His Les Sept Princesses discussed at Mme de Villeparisis’s and ridiculed by Mme de Guermantes: III 308–9. Mme de Guermantes and M. d’Argencourt discuss him: 336–37. Mme de Guermantes comes to admire him, in deference to fashion: V 35 (cf. VI 197). The “vague sadness” of Maeterlinck; quotations from Pelléas: 148.
MAHOMET II, Sultan of Turkey 1451–81. Bloch resembles his portrait by Gentile Bellini: I 134. Stabbed his wife to death: 505.
MAILLOL, Aristide, French sculptor (1861–1944): VI 198.
MAINTENON, Mme de (1635–1719), mistress, confidante and finally morganatic wife of Louis XIV: I 439; II 389.
MALHERBE, François de, French poet (1555–1628): IV 51.
MALLARMÉ, Stéphane, French poet (1842–98). “Alarm and exhaustion” induced in M’s grandmother by his later verse: III 674. Sneered at by Brichot: IV 483. Mocked by Meilhac: V 35. Poems of his to be engraved on Albertine’s yacht and Rolls-Royce: 614.
MANET, Edouard, French painter (1832–83). Elstir’s portrait of Odette contemporary with Manet’s portraits: II 604. His Olympia once regarded as a “horror” by society people, but now accepted: III 575. Elstir once modelled himself on him: 685. Mme de Guermantes’s view of his Olympia—“just like an Ingres”: 716. Admired by Mme de Cambremer, though she prefers Monet: IV 285.
MANGIN, General Charles (1866–1925). A genius, according to Saint-Loup at Doncières: III 145. Cited by Saint-Loup again during the Great War: VI 199.
MANSARD, Jules Hardouin, French architect (1646–1708): III 587.
MANTEGNA, Andrea, Italian painter (c. 1430–1506). A Saint-Euverte footman resembles a soldier in one of his paintings: I 460. The roof of the Gare Saint-Lazare recalls one of his menacing skies: II 303. Isabella d’Este and Mantegna: III 719–20. The Trocadéro reminds Albertine of the background of his St Sebastian: V 218. Vinteuil’s septet conjures up “some scarlet-clad Mantegna archangel sounding a trumpet”: 347. The Marquis de Beausergent in old age resembles a portrait study by Mantegna: VI 200.
MARDRUS, Dr Joseph-Charles-Victor, translator of the unexpurgated Arabian Nights, published 1898–1904: IV 318–19.
MARGUERITE D’AUTRICHE, daughter of the Emperor Maximilian and wife of Philibert le Beau of Savoy (1480–1530). Her tomb at Brou: I 420.
MARIE-AMÉLIE, Queen, wife of Louis-Philippe. Once said to Mme de Villeparisis, “You are just like a daughter to me”: III 250. Her portrait: 251, 519, 736. M’s grandmother shocked by her behaviour: V 895.
MARIE-ANTOINETTE, Queen of France (1755–93): II 470–71. Charlus has her hats: III 770; VI 201.
MARIVAUX, Pierre de Chamberlain de, French playwright and novelist (1688–1763): III 356. Characters known by their titles alone: IV 380.
MARY STUART, Queen of Scotland (1542–87): II 470.
MASCAGNI, Pietro, Italian composer (1863–1945). Reference to Cavalleria Rusticana, admired by Albertine: II 632, 635.
MASPÉRO, Gaston, French Egyptologist (1846–1916): II 68; V 441.
MASSÉ, Victor, French composer (1822–84). Odette’s delight at the prospect of his operetta La Reine Topaze: I 348. The Verdurins take her to his Une Nuit de Cléopâtre; Swann’s diatribe against him: 411–13.
MASSÉNA, Marshal, Napoleonic general (1758–1817):