In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [292]
NANTES, Mlle de, daughter of Louis XIV and Mme de Montespan; married the grandson of the Great Condé: V 905.
NAPLES, Queen of. Maria-Sophia-Amelia, daughter of Maximilian-Joseph, Duke of Bavaria. Her reaction to her sister’s death discussed at the Guermantes’ dinner-table: III 699–700. Her graciousness to Mme Verdurin: V 328–29, 375, 419–20; forgets her fan: 364–66; Charlus intends to present Morel to her: 402–3, 414; returns to fetch her fan, and takes Charlus under her protection: 429–33. Accused of espionage by Mme Verdurin during the war: VI 214.
NAPOLEON Bonaparte (1769–1821): II 157–59. His strategy and tactics discussed by Saint-Loup at Doncières: III 142–51. The Prince de Borodino’s possible descent from him and points of resemblance with him: 167–72. His place in Balzac: 736. Napoleonic titles: 774, 813. Discussion of whether he chewed tobacco or not, in the Goncourt pastiche: VI 215. His strategy and tactics discussed by Saint-Loup in 1914: 101–2. Compared by Charlus to the Kaiser: 157.
NAPOLEON III (1808–73). Appears in Swann’s dream: I 538–40. Mentioned: II 9, 157. Captain de Borodino’s relationship and resemblance to him: III 167–72. The Duc de Guermantes objects to his handing out of titles: 812–13. Features in Norpois’s article on the eve of the Franco-Prussian war: V 865–66.
NATTIER, Jean-Marc, French portrait-painter (1658–1766). Jacquet’s portrait of Mme de Surgis compared to his Duchesse de Châteauroux: IV 145; V 796.
NÉGRIER, General de (1839–1913). Discussed at Doncières: III 166 (cf. VI 216).
NEMOURS, Duc de, son of Louis-Philippe (1814–96). Mme de Villeparisis tells an anecdote about him: II 415.
NERO, Roman emperor. Quoted by Brichot: IV 400. Cited by M’s mother as being probably “highly-strung”: V 135.
NERVAL, Gérard de, French poet (1808–55). Illustrated editions of his books remind M of a “personal share” in the Water Company: II 35. His Sylvie, “one of the masterpieces of French literature,” figures a sensation of the same order as the taste of the madeleine: VI 217.
NICHOLAS II, Tsar (1868–1918). Visits Paris: II 159. Françoise ashamed of France’s treatment of him: III 450. Charlus speaks of him: VI 218.
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm, German philosopher (1844–1900): II 4. Admired by Saint-Loup: 426. His attitude to friendship and his relationship to Wagner: III 540 (cf. V 205). Quoted in Saint-Loup’s letters to M during the war: VI 219. Charlus ridicules Cottard’s denigration of him: 129.
NIJINSKY, Vaslav, Russian ballet dancer (1890–1950): IV 193.
NO AILLES, Anna de, French poetess (1876–1933). Alluded to as “an Eastern princess,” said to write poetry “quite as fine as Hugo’s or Vigny’s”: III 137. A “poet of genius”: VI 220.
NOAILLES, Duc de, friend of Sainte-Beuve: V 769–70.
NO AILLES, Duchesse de, née Champlâtreux, mother-in-law of Anna de Noailles. Sainte-Beuve’s poem about her as a little girl: VI 221.
OFFENBACH, Jacques, Franco-German composer (1819–80): II 361–2. Quotation from his Les Brigands: IV 331. Quotation from La Belle Hélène: V 909.
OHNET, Georges, French novelist and playwright. References to his Matîre de Forges and Serge Panine: I 364–65.
OLLIVIER, Emile, French statesman (1825–1913): III 320.
ORLÉANS, Louis d’. Assassinated by Jean sans Peur in 1407: IV 691.
ORLÉANS, Duc d’, the Regent (1674–1723): IV 691. Married one of Louis XIVs bastards, Mlle de Blois, daughter of Mme de Montespan: V 905.
ORLÉANS, Duc d’, eldest son of Louis-Philippe (1810–42): III 519, 735–36.
ORLÉANS, Philippe, Duc d’, son of the Comte de Paris and grandson of the above (1869–1926): II 125, 491.
ORLÉANS, Charlotte-Elisabeth of Bavaria, Duchesse d’, “the Princess Palatine” (1652–1722). Wife of Monsieur, and known as “Madame.” Her correspondence: II 157; III 743 (cf. IV 62–63; V 407). Her masculine ways. IV 62–63. The “Wife of an Auntie”: V 407.
ORLÉANS, Duchesse d’, mother of Louis-Philippe. Betrayed by Mme de Genlis: V 511.
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