In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [300]
VENDÔME, Louis-Joseph, Duc de. Great-grandson of Henri IV and Gabrielle d’Estrées and one of Louis XIV’s generals (1654–1712). An invert?: V 405–6.
VENIZELOS, Greek statesman, Prime Minister during World War I: VI 276.
VERLAINE, Paul, French poet (1844–96): II 418. Anathematised by Brichot: IV 483. Mme de Guermantes offers M a Verlaine recital by Rachel: VI 277.
VERMANDOIS, Comte de, son of Louis XIV and Mlle de la Vallière (1667–83). An invert?: V 405.
VERMEER, Jan, Dutch painter (1632–75). Swann’s essay on him: I 279, 340–41, 423, 502; II 54, 146–47 (cf. IV 145). The Duc de Guermantes uncertain of having seen the View of Delft in The Hague: III 718. Swann’s favourite painter; Charlus compares Jacquet to him: IV 145. “Do you know the Vermeers?” asks Mme de Cambremer; Albertine thinks they are living people: 289. Bergotte gets up from his sickbed to go and look at the View of Delft; the little patch of yellow wall: V 244–45. His pictures fragments of an identical world: 508. Unique radiance that still reaches us from his world: VI 278.
VERNE, Jules, French writer (1828–1905): IV 576.
VERONESE, Paul, Venetian painter (1528–88). Roof of the Gare Saint-Lazare recalls one of his skies, “of an almost Parisian modernity”: II 303. Albertine’s profile less beautiful than those of Veronese’s women: 597. His paintings of Venetian revels: 652–54 (cf. IV 66). Fruit and wine “as luscious as a beautiful Veronese” (Ski): IV 460. Mentioned: V 271, 848.
VIBERT, Jehan-Georges, French painter (1840–1902). M. de Guermantes prefers him to Elstir: III 687 (cf. 720).
VIGNY, Alfred de, French poet (1797–1863). Swann recalls a passage from his Journal d’un Poète: I 522–23. Norpois’s opinion of him: II 63. Quoted by M to Mme de Villeparisis: 410; her low opinion of him: 411 (cf. III 256). Anna de Noailles compared to him: III 137. Quotations from La Colère de Samson: IV 21. M quotes two lines from La Maison du Berger to Albertine: 357. Quotations from Eloa applied to Princess Sherbatoff: 374. “Manly reticence”—an echo of Servitude et Grandeur militaires: VI 279.
VILLARS, Duc de, Maréchal de France (1653–1734). His portrait by Saint-Simon: II 170. An in vert?: V 406.
VILLIERS DE L’ISLE-ADAM, French Symbolist writer (1840–89). Referred to familiarly by Bloch’s sister: II 482.
VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugène, French architect and writer (1814–79). Allusion to his restorations apropos of Combray: I 233–34. Denounced by Swann: 415. Restorations by pupils of his often give “the most potent sensation of the Middle Ages”: IV 380.
VIRGIL, Roman poet. Allusion to Book IV of the Georgics: I 22. Anecdotes from Virgil in the porch of Saint-André-des-Champs: 212. In Dante’s Inferno: 238. “Virgil’s Leucothea” (a Proustian error—the “white goddess” is not mentioned in Virgil): II 721. Cited by Brichot: IV 448, 478. Charlus and Virgilian shepherds: 479; V 270 (cf. 443).
VOISENON, Abbé de, licentious novelist, friend of Voltaire (1708–75): III 371.
VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet), French writer and philosopher (1694–1778). Bloch attributes to him (“Master Arouet”) two lines from Corneille’s Polyeucte: II 628. Andrée quotes him on Racine: 674. Allusion to Zaïre: III 49. Brichot at La Raspelière sees himself as the equivalent of “M. de Voltaire” chez Mme du Ghâtelet: IV 381. Further allusion by Brichot: 614.
WAGNER, Richard, German composer (1813–83). “Solemn sweetness” of a joyful celebration characteristic of Lohengrin: I 215 (cf. III 5). Odette’s projected visit to Bayreuth: 428. Vinteuil’s “little phrase” compared to a theme in Tristan: 498. Saint-Loup deplores his father’s indifference to Wagner: II 427–28. Plaintive whine of a closing door reminds M of the overture to Tannhäuser: III 536. Nietzsche and Wagner: 540 (cf. V 205). Mme de Guermantes’s glib views on Wagner: 643, 645, 672; he sends the Duke