In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [293]
OSSIAN, legendary Scottish bard impersonated by James Macpherson. A “mediocre mystifier”: III 572.
OVID, Roman poet: II 457. “That holy terror” (Brichot): IV 614. Quoted by Cottard: 643; VI 222.
PADEREWSKI, Ignace, Polish pianist and prime minister (1860–1941). Dechambre compared to him: IV 400, 407.
PAILLERON, Edouard, French playwright (1834–99). Allusion to Oriane’s “Pailleronism”: III 679.
PALATINE, Princess. See Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth of Bavaria, Duchesse d’.
PALÉOLOGUE, Maurice, French diplomat. Ambassador in St Petersburg during the 1914–18 war. Veiled allusion: IV 62. “Notoriously inadequate” in Serbia, according to Norpois: V 856. Pestered with telegrams from the Duchesse de Guermantes after the Russian Revolution: VI 223.
PALESTRINA, Italian composer (1525–94): IV 485; V 176; VI 224.
PALISSY, Bernard, French ceramic artist and scientist (c. 1510–90). Platter of seafood at Doncières resembles one of his ceramic dishes: III 152.
PAMPILLE (Mme Léon Daudet); published cooking recipes in L’Action Française. Her “delightful” books referred to by Mme de Guermantes: III 688. Her “incomparable recipe” (M. Verdurin): IV 407. “That true poet”: V 38.
PAQUIN, dress designer. Approved of—“sometimes”—by Elstir: II 655. Mme de Guermantes recommends him: V 47.
PARIS, Comte de, eldest grandson of Louis-Philippe (1838–94). Swann “a particular friend” of his: I 19, 33, 578. Referred to as Philippe VII: 579. Favourably impressed by Odette, according to Norpois: II 59, 75, 125, 127.
PARNY, Evariste-Désiré de, French poet (1753–1814): III 617.
PASCAL, Blaise, French philosopher and scientist (1623–62): I 33; III 20: Quoted by Saint-Loup: 130. Charlus and the Duc de Guermantes recall their tutor’s lessons on him: IV 159. “We can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal’s Pensées in an advertisement for soap”: V 732. Gulf between M and Gilberte as imaginary as Pascal’s: VI 225. Quoted by Brichot (le moi est haïssable): 150.
PASQUIER (le chancelier), French statesman (1767–1862); I 26, II 395. Friend of Mme de Boigne: V 769.
PATY DE CLAM, Colonel du. One of the principal actors in the Dreyfus Case. Norpois’s views on him: III 325–26, 330, 334. Quotes lines from an adversary, the Dreyfusard poet Pierre Quillard, at the Zola trial: VI 226. His “disguises and strategies”: 128.
PAU, General (1848–1932): III 166. Quoted by Charlus on the declaration of war in 1914: “I have been waiting forty years for this day. It is the most glorious day of my life”: VI 227.
PAUL, Saint. The “unforgivable sin”: I 92.
PÉL AD AN, Sâr, French writer and occultist (1858–1918): III 308.
PÉRIER, Jean-Alexis, French singer, creator of the role of Pel-léas: IV 662.
PERRONNEAU, Jean-Baptiste, French painter (1715–83). Admired by Elstir: III 574.
PÉTAIN, General (1856–1951): VI 228.
PETRONIUS, Roman writer: V 377.
PHIDIAS, classical Greek sculptor. The Duc de Guermantes likened to the statue of Olympian Zeus said to have been cast in gold: III 385. Inscribed the name of the athlete he loved on the ring of his Olympian Zeus: V 442. Anglo-Saxon soldiers “like living statues by Phidias” to Charlus: VI 229.
PHILIBERT LE BEAU (1480–1504), Duke of Savoy. His initials intertwined with those of Margaret of Austria in the church of Brou: I 420.
PHILIPPE VI, de Valois, King of France (1293–1350): III 597.
PHILIPPE LE HARDI, King of France (1245–85): III 716.
PHILIPPE-ÉGALITÉ, Duc d’Orléans (1747–93): III 803.
PICCINNI, Niccoló, Neapolitan composer (1728–1800). His Iphigenia compared to Gluck’s: III 644.
PICQUART, Georges-Marie, Colonel, later General and Minister of War (1854–1914). One of the principal actors in the Dreyfus Case: III 139. Discussed by Norpois and Bloch: 315–16, 323–25. Minister of War: 402 (cf. VI 230). Bloch’s appeal on his behalf: IV 152, 154. Frequents Mme Verdurin’s salon: 198–99 (cf. 384; V 315); VI 231.
PINDAR, Greek poet: III 259.
PIRANESI, Giambattista, Italian architect and engraver