In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [294]
PISANELLO, Antonio, Italian painter and medallist (c. 1380–1456). Patterns of foam in Balbec bay etched with the delicacy of a Pisanello: II 522. His flower drawings compared unfavourably with Mme de Villeparisis’s by Legrandin: III 286. Queen Victoria’s profile on English pennies might have been drawn by him: VI 232.
PIUS IX, Pope (1792–1878). Françoise buys a photograph of him: II 80, 360.
PLANTÉ, Francis, French pianist (1839–1934): I 265; IV 400.
PLATO, Greek philosopher: I 408. Françoise distorts Mme de Villeparisis’s words as Plato distorts Socrates’: II 376. Françoise’s mistakes due, like the fables in which Plato believed, to a false conception of the world and to preconceived ideas: III 490. Plato and homosexuality: V 270 (cf. 290; IV 479; VI 233). Allusion to the Symposium: 376. Brichot in Charlus’s company feels like Plato with Aspasia: 443. Analogous ideas may differ according to whether they have been expounded by Xenophon or Plato: VI 234.
PLAUTUS, Roman comedy writer: II 485.
PLINY the Younger, Roman writer: III 610.
PLOTINUS, 3rd-century philosopher: IV 521.
POE, Edgar Allan, American writer (1809–49): II 418.
POINCARÉ, Henri, French mathematician (1854–1912): III 149.
POINCARÉ, Raymond, President of the Republic 1913–20: VI 235.
POLIGNAC, Prince Edmond de. Rents the Prince of X’s castle for the Bayreuth festival: III 736. Figures in Tissot’s picture of the Rue Royale club: V 262–63.
POMPADOUR, Mme de (1721–64), mistress of Louis XV: III 780; V 746–47; VI 236.
PONSARD, François, French poet and dramatist (1814–67). Allusion to his comedy Le Lion amoureux: III 644.
POREL, Director of the Odéon 1884–91: IV 449, 454.
PORPHYRY, neo-Platonist philosopher: IV 521.
POTAIN Dr, French physician (1825–1901). Cottard compared to him: I 265 (cf. IV 378). Despairs of Vinteuil’s life: 302.
POURTALÈS, Comtesse Edmond de, Second Empire beauty and hostess. The Prince de Borodino dines with her: III 172. Her ignorance of the Dreyfus Case: 549. “Melanie Pourtalès arranged things far better” (Oriane): IV 97.
POUSSIN, Nicolas, French painter (1594–1665). Gilberte’s name, floating through the air, compared to a little cloud in a Poussin landscape: I 561. To destroy a park by Le Nôtre as bad as slashing a Poussin painting: II 470–71. Discussed by M. and Mme de Cambremer; “an old hack” in her view, but Degas’s admiration for him gives her pause: IV 284–87, 291.
PRADON, Nicolas, French poet and playwright, rival of Racine (1632–98): III 644.
PRASLIN, Duchesse de (Choiseul), daughter of General Sebastiani, murdered by her husband in 1847. Friend of Mme de Villeparisis’s mother: II 415–16; III 735.
PRAXITELES, classical Greek sculptor: V 270.
PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph, French philosopher (1809–65). Admired by Saint-Loup: II 426. M’s grandmother gives Saint-Loup a collection of autograph letters by him: 608 (cf. III 90).
PUCCINI, Giacomo, Italian composer (1858–1924): V 284.
PUGET, Loïsa, French poetess (1810–89): IV 110.
QUILLARD, Pierre, French poet, Hellenist and journalist (1864–1912). Violent Dreyfusard; his encounter at the Zola trial with Colonel du Paty de Clam, who quotes from his symbolist play La Fille aux mains coupées: VI 237.
RABELAIS, François, French writer (c. 1494–1553). Quoted by Norpois: III332. Quoted by Brichot: IV 612; who prefers him to Balzac: 614.
RACINE, Jean, French dramatist (1639–99). Bloch quotes a famous line from Phèdre, which has “the supreme merit of meaning absolutely nothing”: I 124. Bergotte’s essay on him: 137. Quotation from Athalie: 150. Indirect quotation from Phèdre: 204. Gilberte gives M Bergotte’s monograph: 572. M reads a passage on the old myths from which Racine drew his inspiration: 582. Quotation from Phèdre: H 14, 17–18. Phrases from Bergotte: 18. Berma in Phèdre: 20–29. M discusses Phèdre with Bergotte: 183–86. Racine and Louis XIV: 187–88. Quotation from Esther: 362. Charlus on Racine: 469. Allusion to a line from Athalie: 519. Gisèle’s essay, “Letter from Sophocles to Racine”: 670–75 (cf. III 482; V 513). Berma in Phèdre again: III 58–61.