In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [296]
RISLER, Edouard, French pianist (1873–1929): IV 400.
RISTORI, Mme, Italian tragic actress (1821–1906). Recites chez “Alix”: III 264, 270.
RIZZO, Antonio, Italian architect and sculptor (1430–98). Swann’s coachman Rémi resembles his bust of the Doge Loredan: I 315, 324.
ROBERT, Hubert, French painter (1735–1808). M’s grandmother gives him a photograph of the “fountains of Saint-Cloud” after Hubert Robert: I 54. His art stimulated by moonlight on Combray gardens: 159. The Hubert Robert fountain in the Prince de Guermantes’s garden: IV 75–77; Mme d’Arpajon inundated by it: 77; Charlus’s opinion of it: 79.
RODIN, Auguste, French sculptor (1840–1917): VI 249.
ROETTIERS, Joseph, 18th-century jeweller: V 496–97.
ROLLAND, Romain, French writer and pacifist (1866–1944). Quoted by Saint-Loup in his letters to M during the war: VI 250.
RONSARD, Pierre de, French poet (1524–85): IV 408–9. Line from one of his Sonnets pour Hélène: 738; V 590.
ROQUES, General, Minister of War in 1916: VI 251.
ROSTAND, Edmond, French poet and playwright (1868–1918), author of Cyrano de Bergerac and L’Aiglon: III 286; IV 639.
ROTHSCHILDS, The. Sir Rufus Israels’ family compared to them: II 124. The Prince de Guermantes allows a wing of his château to be burnt down rather than ask the help of his Rothschild neighbours: III 797. The Duchesse de Guermantes entertains them: V 42. Baron de Rothschild: II 477. Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild: III 399; Bloch’s gaffe when introduced to her by Mme de Villeparisis: III 693; constantly chez Oriane: IV 92; a rose named after her: 551; at the La Trémoïlles’: V 45. Edmond de Rothschild: III 585.
ROUHER, Eugène, Minister of Napoleon III (1814–84): III171.
ROUJON, Henry, French Academician (1853–1914), author of a book (Au milieu des hommes) which Mme Verdurin offers to Charlus: IV 604.
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Baptiste, French poet (1671–1741): III 328.
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, French-Swiss writer and philosopher (1712–78). M’s father disapproves of his being given a volume of Rousseau as a birthday present: I 52–53.
ROUSSEAU, Théodore, French painter (1812–67): V 383.
ROUVIER, Maurice, French politician (1842–1911), Prime Minister during the Moroccan crisis between France and Germany in 1905: V 779.
RUBENS, Peter Paul, Flemish painter (1577–1640). Swann’s Rubens: II 155. M. Bloch’s bogus Rubens: 487. Made goddesses out of women he knew: 724.
RUBINSTEIN, Anton, Russian pianist (1829–94): I 265. M’s grandmother has a weakness for his discords and wrong notes: II 428.
RUSKIN, John, English writer and artist (1819–1900). Quotations (unattributed) from Stones of Venice: I 556–59. Quoted by M’s mother: II 308. “A tedious old proser,” according to Bloch, who calls him Lord John Ruskin: 436. M’s work on Ruskin: V 874. Jupien’s allusion to M’s translation of Sesame and Lilies: VI 252.
SABRÁN, Mme de. One of the mistresses of the Regent: III 735.
SAGAN, Prince de. Greets Odette in the Bois: II 297. His dashing style: III 689. His hats: 794. His last appearence in society: IV 162. References to the Princesse de Sagan: I 265–66; III 276, 328–29. Friend of Swann: VI 253.
SAINT-LÉGER LÉGER, Alexis, French poet and diplomat, better known under his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (1887–1975). “Is it poetry, or just riddles?” asks Céleste: IV 336.
SAINT-MÉGRIN. Favourite or “mignon” of Henri III: VI 254.
SAINT-SAENS, Camille, French composer (1835–1921). Allusion to his Samson et Dalila (“Israel, break thy chains”): I 125.
SAINT-SIMON, Duc de, author of the Memoirs (1675–1755). Quoted by Swann on Maulévrier: I 33–35. The “mechanics” of life at Versailles: 162 (cf. 439). One of Swann’s favourite authors: 439. Françoise’s class attitudes compared to Saint-Simon’s: II 88. His portrait of Villars quoted to illustrate the unforeseeableness of the language of great writers: 170. Cited in illustration of the superiority of creation to observation: 475–76. Françoise uses his language: III 84. Mme de Villeparisis has a portrait of him: 399. The Duc de Guermantes’s punctilious