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courtesy as a host reminiscent of an ancestor of his described by Saint-Simon; quoted on the ethos of Louis XIV’s court and its similarity to the behaviour of the Duc de Guermantes: 597–98. “Admirable but fearsome”: 628. Quoted by Charlus on the validity of a Guermantes title: IV 471. Charlus’s Saint-Simonian tableaux-vivants; the Maréchal d’Huxelles: 499. The caste system of Combray as rigid as Saint-Simon’s: 579. Mme de Guermantes’s style of reminiscence recalls Saint-Simon: V 38. His euphemism for homosexuality: 280. “That old pest” (Brichot): 405. Quoted on the Maréchal d’Huxelles: 407 (cf. IV 499). Albertine enjoys talking about him to M: 714, 750. His portrait of the Marquis d’Allemans: 794–95. Quoted on the subject of noblemen who (like Charlus) associate with their inferiors: VI 255. Quoted on Louis XIV’s ignorance of genealogy: 398; and the intelligence of the Prince de Conti: 398–99. M’s book “the Memoirs of Saint-Simon of another age”: 525.

SAINT-VALLIER (father of Diane de Poitiers): VI 256.

SAINTE-BEUVE, Charles-Augustin, French writer (1804–69). Quoted by Norpois on Alfred de Vigny: II 63. Admired by Mme de Villeparisis: 395. Approved by Andrée: 675. In describing the subtle distinctions between salons unwittingly betrays the vacuity of salon life: III 569. Preferred alternatively as critic and poet: 645. Depravity of taste shown in his prose style: IV 663. Charlus’s scandal-mongering “enough to supply all the appendixes of the Causeries du Lundi” (Brichot): V 442. The original flaw in the type of literature represented by his Lundis: 769. Allusion to his poem La Fontaine de Boileau: VI 257. The grimacing smile that accompanies and disfigures his “spoken phrases”: 302.

SAINTINE, Xavier, French novelist (1798–1865): I 206.

SALVANDY, Comte de, French writer and politician (1795–1856): II 395; III 372.

SAMARY, Jeanne, French actress (1857–90): I 102; IV 455.

SAND, George, French novelist (1804–76). M’s grandmother gives him the four pastoral novels: I 53 (cf. V 8). His mother reads François le Champí to him: 55–57. Saniette’s story about the duke who didn’t know that George Sand was a woman: 370–71. Attractive compromise between the provincial and the literary in La Petite Fadette: V 36. The marriage of Mile d’Oloron and the young Cambremer “a marriage from the last chapter of a George Sand novel”: 893. On opening François le Champí in the Prince de Guermantes’s library, M finds his whole childhood restored to him: VI 258.

SAPPHO, Greek poetess. M compares Albertine to her: IV 272.

SARCEY, Francisque, French drama critic (1827–99): IV 393.

SARDOU, Victorien, French playwright (1831–1908). All the notabilities of Paris “walk on” in one of his plays: II 148, 485. Queens in his plays: III 583.

SARRAIL, General. Commander of the Salonika expeditionary force in 1916: VI 259.

SAUSSIER, General. His role in the Dreyfus Case: III 134–35.

SAVONAROLA, Girolamo, Italian preacher (1452–98). Mme Blatin the image of his portrait by Fra Bartolommeo: II 147.

SAXE, Maréchal de, French general (1696–1750): III 589.

SCARLATTI, Domenico, Italian composer (1685–1757). Mme de Cambremer requests Morel to play a “divine” Scarlatti piece: IV 481.

SCARRON, Paul, French poet and playwright (1610–60). Husband of Mme de Maintenon (q.v.): II 188.

SCHILLER, Johann Friedrich von, German poet and dramatist (1759–1805): III 674. Allusion to his comedy Uncle and Nephew: IV 128; VI 260.

SCHLEGEL, Wilhelm von, German naturalist (1767–1845). Taught Mme de Villeparisis botany in her childhood: III 372.

SCHLIEFFEN, Field-Marshal von, Chief of the German General Staff 1891–1905. Saint-Loup refers to his famous “plan”: III 144.

SCHLUMBERGER, Gustave, French historian (1844–1929): III 286.

SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur, German philosopher (1788–1860). Mme de Cambremer’s knowledge of him: VI 261.

SCHUBERT, Franz, Austrian composer (1792–1828). M celebrates the renunciation of his love for Mme de Guermantes by singing Schubert’s Farewell: III 508.

SCHUMANN, Robert, German composer (1810–56). M hears him being played from his hotel room: IV 255.