In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [291]
MILL, John Stuart, British philosopher and economist (1806–73): IV 438.
MILLET, Jean-François, French painter (1814–75): IV 438.
MISTINGUETT, popular singer and dancer (1875–1956). Mme de Guermantes hesitates to make overtures to her, though finding her “adorable”: VI 206.
MOLIÈRE, French dramatist (1622–73): I 36. Norpois avoids his word cocu: II 52 (as does Cottard: IV 493–94). Meeting between M’s grandmother and Mme de Villeparisis compared to a scene in Moliere: 371–72. Reference to Le Misanthrope—exam question on Alceste and Philinte: 640. Quoted by M’s grandmother: III 423–25. Conversation between Charlus and the Duke of Sidonia recalls a Molière comedy: IV 52. Allusion to Le Médecin malgré lui: 56. Charlus as Scapin: 130. The only writer’s name known to Céleste Albaret: 333–34. Reference to Le Malade imaginaire: 393. Reference to L’Avare: 434. Allusion to La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas: 556. Charlus’s imitation swordsmanship reminiscent of Molière: 539–40. An invert, according to Charlus: V 405. Differing views of Le Misanthrope: VI 207.
MOLTKE, General von, Prussian Chief of Staff during the Franco-Prussian war: VI 208.
MONALDESCHI, Jean de, Italian nobleman assassinated at Fontainebleau in 1657 at the instigation of Queen Christina of Sweden: IV 93.
MONET, Claude, French painter (1840–1926). Admired by Mme de Cambremer: IV 283–85. Mentioned: V 411; VI 209.
MONSEIGNEUR, son of Louis XIV (1661–1711): III 597–98.
MONSIEUR (Philippe, Duc d’Orléans), brother of Louis XIV (1640–1701). Anecdotes from Saint-Simon: III 597; IV 78, 477, 666. Called “Monsieur” because he was such an “old woman” (Charlus): 691. His homosexuality: V 405–7.
MONTALAMBERT, Charles, Comte de, French politician and publicist (1810–70). Frequented Mme de Villeparisis’s salon: III 259.
MONTESPAN, Mme de, mistress of Louis XIV: IV 234.
MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondât, Baron de, French writer and political philosopher (1689–1755). Anticipates Flaubert: IV 291. Brichot refers to him as “Monsieur le Président Secondât de Montesquieu”: 372.
MONTMORENCY, Duchesse de, née des Ursins (1601–66). Mme de Villeparisis has inherited a portrait of her: III 252, 265–66, 270, 298.
MORAND, Paul, French writer (1888–1976). Allusion to his novel Clarisse: VI 210.
MOREAU, Gustave, French painter (1826–98). The idea of a “kept woman” suggests to Swann some fantasy by Moreau: I 380. Allusion to his portrayal of Jupiter: II 382. Some “stunning pictures” by him at Guermantes, according to Saint-Loup: 457. Mme de Guermantes talks about his Death and the Young Man: III 713–14.
MORGHEN, Raphael, Italian engraver (1758–1833). His engraving of Leonardo’s Last Supper: I 54.
MOTTE VILLE, Mme de, memorialist (c. 1621–1689): III 743.
MOUNET-SULLY, French tragedian (1841–1916): IV 639; V 275. His approach to Molière’s Le Misanthrope: VI 211.
MOUSSORGSKY, Modest, Russian composer (1839–81). The street criers’ cadences remind M of Boris Godunov: V 147–48.
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91). Reference to his clarinet quintet: I 474. “Mischievous unexpectedness” with which the piano takes over in his concertos: II 36.
MURAT, Princesse, Queen of Naples: II 480; III 711; V 365–66. (To be distinguished from Maria-Sophia-Amelia, wife of Francis II, last king of the two Sicilies—see Naples, Queen of.)
MUSSET, Alfred de, French poet and dramatist (1810–57). M’s grandmother’s choice of Musset’s poems as a present for her grandson disapproved of by his father: I 52–53. Despised by Bloch, apart from one “absolutely meaningless line”: 124. Arrives “dead drunk” to dine with the Princesse Mathilde: II 158. Mme de Villeparisis’s poor opinion of him: 411–12. The Musset admired by the likes of Bloch: 475. A line of his attributed by Oriane to Emile Augier: III 308. Critical opinions of him: 645. Mme d’Arpajon quotes a line from his La Nuit d’Octobre thinking it to be by Hugo: 679-80. Quoted in Joseph Périgot’s letter: 777. His notion of “hope in God”: V 792.