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Quotation from Esther: 517. Quotation from Andromaque: 607. M. de Vaugoubert’s behaviour at the Princesse de Guermantes’s recalls passages from Esther: IV 87–88. Pages at the Grand Hotel suggest the chorus from Athalie: 235–36 (cf. 524–25). Nissim Bernard’s young waiter likened to an Israelite in Athalie: 327–29. Esther quoted by Charlus: 524–25. Quotation from Esther; Albertine compares M to Assuerus: V 13–14 (cf. 532). “Albertine-Esther”: 123. Another scene from Esther: 151–52. Charlus’s transition from violence to Christian meekness compared to the change of tone between Andromaque and Esther: 434. More quotations from Esther: 555. M sees the declaration scene in Phèdre as a sort of prophecy of the amorous episodes in his own life: 617–19. Quotation from Phèdre: 873. Phèdre as a Jansenist: VI 238. Berma identified with Phèdre: 456.

RAMBUTEAU, Claude-Philibert Berthelot, Baron de, French politician and administrator, préfet of the Seine in 1833; introduced public urinals with individual compartments: V 249; VI 239.

RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe, French composer (1683–1764). Quotation from Gluck’s Armide attributed to him: V 148. Albertine plays him on the pianola: 514.

RAPHAEL, Italian painter (1483–1520): II 459; V 208. Silhouettes of trees in Paris reminiscent of those in the backgrounds to his paintings: VI 240. Goncourt elevates Watteau above him: 130.

RASP AIL, François, French politician and scientist (1794–1878). Françoise buys a photograph of him: II 80, 360.

RASPUTIN, Gregory (c. 1871–1917). His murder a Dostoievsky incident in real life: VI 241.

RAUDNITZ. Dress-designer. Mme Cottard swears by him: II 238.

RAVEL, Maurice, French composer (1875–1937): VI 242.

RÉGAMIER, Mme: III 569. Her salon at l’Abbaye-aux-Bois: IV 373, 612 731; VI 243.

REDFERN, Dress-designer: II 238.

REDON, Odilon. French painter (1840–1916). His “subtlety of expression” (Elstir): II 575.

REGENT, The. See Orléans, Duc d’.

REGNARD, Jean-François, French playwright (1655–1709): VI 244.

RÉGNIER, Mathurin, French satirist poet (1573–1613). Quoted by the president at Balbec: II 384.

REICHENBERG, Suzanne, French actress (1853–1924), for thirty years the principal ingénue at the Comédie-Française. The Duc de Guermantes persuades her to recite for Edward VII: III 589. Mme Mole’s attempt to emulate both the Duchesse and the Princesse de Guermantes like someone trying to be at once Reichenberg and Sarah Bernhardt: V 311.

REIN ACH, Joseph, French writer and politician (1856–1921). Dreyfusard activist: III 326, 334. His achievement in the Dreyfus Case “the most astonishing victory for rational politics the world has ever seen”: 402. Frequents Mme Verdurin’s salon: IV 198–99 (cf. 384). Mentioned: V 313; VI 245.

RÉJANE, French actress (1856–1920): III 678; VI 246.

REMBRANDT, Dutch painter (1606–69). Odette’s “Rembrandt hat”: I 340–41. His Night Watch “the supreme masterpiece” in Mme Verdurin’s view: 361. The Swann dining-room as dark as “an Asiatic temple painted by Rembrandt”: II 107. Interior of the Grand Hotel seen from the lift reminiscent of a Rembrandt: 519. A little curio shop in Doncières at night like a composition by Rembrandt: III 122–23. Charlus’s two Rembrandts: 771. The “gentle gravity” of certain of his portraits: IV 107. His Jewish scenes admired by Charlus: 690. His portraits of women compared to Dostoievsky: V 508. The fantastic world of the Night Watch: 511–12. Unique rays that still reach us from the world of Rembrandt: VI 247. The “terrible ravaged face” of the aged Rembrandt: 314–15.

RENAN, Ernest, French historian (1823–92): II 107; V 352, 441.

RENOIR, Auguste, French painter (1841–1919). It took a great deal of time for him to be hailed as a great artist: III 445. His painting of the publisher Charpentier at home: VI 248.

RETZ, Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de (1613–79). “That struggle for Ufer de Gondi” (Brichot): IV 372.

RIBOT, Alexandre, French statesman (1842–1923): II 8; III 589.

RIGAUD, Hyacinthe, French portrait-painter (1659–1743): III 795.

RIMBAUD, Arthur, French poet (1854–91): II 418; V 819.

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nicolai,