In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [290]
MASSENET, Jules, French composer (1842–1912). Compared with Debussy: IV 291. Albertine sings his Poème d’amour: V 3–4. Quotations from Manon: 609–10.
MATERNA, Mme, Austrian singer (1847–1918): I 32.
MATHILDE, Princesse, daughter of Jerome Bonaparte (1820–1904). Entertained by the Princesse des Laumes: I 468, 473. M meets her in the Bois de Boulogne with the Swanns: II 156–60. Not at all royal in her ways: 380–81. Her relations with the Faubourg Saint-Germain: III 642–44. Mme de Guermantes invites her with the Duc d’Aumale: 710.
MAUBANT, French actor (1821–1902): I 32. Seen by M emerging from the Théâtre-Français: 102.
MAULÉVRIER, Marquis de, French Ambassador in Madrid 1720–23. Swann quotes Saint-Simon’s description of him: I 34.
MAUREL, Victor, French opera-singer (1848–1923): III 775.
MAURRAS, Charles, right-wing writer and publicist (1868–1952): II 8. His novel Aimée de Coigny: VI 202. Reference to his newspaper L’Action Française: 183.
MA YOL, Félix, music hall singer (1876–1941). Morel sings his Viens Poupoule: IV 632. Discussed by Charlus and the bus conductor: 735.
MEILHAC, Henri, French playwright and librettist (1831–97), collaborator of Ludovic Halévy (q.v.). Admired by Mme de Guermantes: I 475 (cf. III 278, 678–79; VI 203). Imagined dialogue between the Princesse de Guermantes and her guests in her box at the Opéra suggests a scene from Le Mari de la Débutante: III 48. His Cleopatra: IV 387. Mallarmé mocked by him: V 35. Quotation from La Belle Hélène: 909.
MÉLINE, Jules, French statesman (1838–1925). Prime Minister during the Dreyfus Case; friend of M’s father: III 200.
MEMLING, Jan, Flemish painter (c. 1433–94). Allusion to his St Ursula reliquary in Bruges: III 735.
MENANDER, Greek poet and dramatist: II 485.
MENDELSSOHN, Felix, German composer (1809–47). Charlus refers to him as “the virtuoso of Berlin”: IV 556; V 860.
MENDÈS, Catulle, French poet (1841–1909). Referred to familiarly by Bloch’s sister: II 482.
MENIER, Gaston, Chocolate manufacturer. Allusion (by Bloch) to his powerful and luxurious yacht: II 446.
MERCIER, General, Minister of War at the outset of the Dreyfus Case: III 653.
MÉRIMÉE, Prosper, French writer (1803–70). His style and influence: I 475 (cf. III 48, 277–78, 678–79). Admired by Mme de Villeparisis: II 395. Mme de Guermantes has his type of mind: III 278 (cf. I 475; III 781); her favourite writer, together with Meilhac and Halévy: 678–79. He and Baudelaire despise one another: 781 (cf. V 35). His travels in Spain: V 441.
MERLET, Gustave, French literary academic (1829–91): II 675.
MÉTRA, Olivier, French composer and conductor (1830–89). His Vahe des Roses one of Odette’s favourite pieces: I 335, 341, 349.
METTERNICH, Princess Pauline von (1836–1921), wife of Metternich’s son Richard, for several years Austrian Ambassador in Paris. Introduces Bergotte to Norpois in Vienna: II 64–65. A passionate Wagnerian: III 775; V 365.
MEULEN, van der, Flemish painter (1634–94): III 527.
MEURICE, Paul, writer and friend of Victor Hugo: V 386.
MEYER, Arthur, French journalist, ultra-Nationalist and antiDreyfusard (1844–1924): VI 204.
MEYERBEER, Giacomo, Franco-German composer (1791–1864). Morel plays him instead of Debussy: IV 481.
MICHELANGELO Buonarotti, Italian painter, sculptor, architect and poet (1475–1564). Globes of mistletoe like the sun and moon in his Creation: I 601–2. Françoise “the Michelangelo of our kitchen;” her search for the best cuts of meat compared to his care in choosing marble for the monument to Julius II: II 21, 39. Albertine’s face in bed at Balbec, as M approaches to kiss it, seems to rotate like a Michelangelo figure: 701. Vinteuil’s creative fury compared to Michelangelo’s in the Sistine Chapel: V 339. Brichot acquits him of homosexuality: 395. “Grimacing immobility” of a portrait study: VI 205.
MICHELET, Jules, French historian (1798–1874). Charlus quotes him on the Guermantes clan: III 388. Reference to his aesthetic approach to natural history: IV 36. Personifies the 19th century; his greatest beauties in his prefaces: V 207.
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