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STRAUSS, Richard, German composer (1864–1949). “Vulgar motifs” of Salome: III 614. A “great composer”: V 315. Allusion to The Legend of Joseph: 876–77.

STRAVINSKY, Igor, Russian composer (1882–1972). Flowering of the Russian Ballet reveals his genius: IV 193. A “great composer”: V 315.

SUGER, Abbé de Saint-Denis, minister and counsellor of Louis VI and Louis VII (1081–1151): I 358.

SULLY-PRUDHOMME, French poet (1839–1907). His Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent the only poem Céleste and her sister know: IV 336, 716. His Aux Tuileries recited by Charlus to Morel: V 808.

SYLVA, Carmen, pen-name of Elisabeth, Queen of Romania (1843–1916): III 270.

SYVETON, Gabriel, Nationalist Deputy who died in mysterious circumstances in 1904: VI 269.

TACITUS, Roman historian. Françoise would have written like him: III 491.

TAGLIAFICO, Franco-Italian singer and composer (1821–1900). One of Odette’s favourite musicians; his Pauvre Fou to be played at her funeral: I 335.

TAINE, Hippolyte, French critic, philosopher and historian (1828–93). The Princesse Mathilde offended by an article of his on Napoleon: II 157. He and Charlus agree about Balzac: IV 614–15. His name floats through M’s dreams: V 155.

TALLEMANT DES RÉAUX (1619–92). Author of Les Historiettes. Anecdote about the Chevalier de Rohan: III 731–32.

TALLEYRAND, Charles-Maurice, French statesman (1754–1838): III 171. Dr du Boulbon quotes his phrase “bien portant imaginaire”: 416. Quoted by Brichot: IV 371–72, who refers to him as “Charles-Maurice, Abbé de Périgord”: 380–81; VI 270.

TALLIEN, Mme, wife of the revolutionary Jean-Lambert Tallien and leader of fashion under the Directory (1773–1835). Her “fine and flowing hair”: III 735. War-time Paris compared to the Directory; Tallien styles in dress: VI 271. Mme Verdurin and Mme Bontemps “old and ugly” versions of Mme Tallien: 51.

TALMA, François-Joseph, French actor (1763–1826): VI 272.

THIBAUD, Jacques, French violinist (1880–1953). Compared to Morel: V 63, 383.

THIERRY, Augustin, French historian (1795–1856). M reads him in the garden at Combray: IV 319.

THIERS, Adolphe, French statesman and historian (1797–1877): III 259, 277; V 866.

THIRON, French actor (1830–91): I 102; II 76; III 167.

THUREAU-DANGIN, French historian (1837–1913), Permanent Secretary of the Académie Française: IV 620.

TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista, Venetian painter (1696–1770). The Duchesse de Guermantes’s cloak “a magnificent Tiepolo red”: IV 83, 161. Albertine’s Fortuny gown lined in “Tiepolo pink”: V 531.

TINTORETTO, Venetian painter (1518–94): Dr du Boulbon resembles one of his portraits: I 315.

TISSOT, James, French painter (1836–1902). Allusion to his picture of the Rue Royale club: V 262–63.

TITIAN, Venetian painter (c. 1487–1576): I 54, 556–57. The “Frari Titian” (the Assumption of the Virgin): II 14. Mme de Villeparisis’s family Titians: 396. Mentioned: 588; V 497, 531, 794; VI 273. M’s Venetian girlfriend compared to a Titian: V 868. Barrés on Titian: VI 274.

TOLSTOY, Count Leo, Russian writer (1828–1910): “Abominated” by Bergotte: II 177. Discussed at lunch with Rachel: III 377. Mme de Guermantes’s “sally” in his defence: 612–13. Mme de Cambremer and Tolstoy’s mujiks: IV 438. Reference to War and Peace: V 509. Tolstoy and Dostoievsky: 513.

TOURVILLE, Maréchal de, French sailor (1642–1701): II 49.

TOWNSHEND, General Sir Charles, Commander of the expeditionary force in Mesopotamia during World War I: VI 275.

TSCHUDI, Hugo von, German art historian, Director of the National Gallery in Berlin: IV 471.

TURNER, J. M. W., English painter (1775–1851): I 54. Charlus’s Turner rainbow: III 771. Turneresque view from the Hôtel de Guermantes: 786. Anticipated by Poussin: IV 291. Turner and Venice: V 884.

VACQUERIE, Auguste. Writer and friend of Victor Hugo: V 386.

VAN DYCK, Sir Anthony, Flemish painter (1599–1641). Allusion to his portrait of Charles I in the Louvre: V 755.

VAULABELLE, Achille de, French historian (1799–1879): I 108; III 359.

VELAZQUEZ, Diego, Spanish painter