In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [308]
NORWAY. Mme de Guermantes goes on a cruise in the Norwegian fjords: III 654.
ORLEANS. Its cathedral the ugliest in France, according to Charlus: IV 15.
ORVIETO. The Creation of Woman in one of the sculptures of its cathedral: V 512.
PADUA. Giotto’s Vices and Virtues in the Arena Chapel: I 111–13, 169; Swann a fervent admirer of them: 465. Mantegna altarpiece in the church of San Zeno and frescoes in the Eremitani chapel: 460. St Anthony of Padua: II 113. Mentioned in a quotation from Alfred de Musset: 475. The life of Fabrice del Dongo related to Stendhal by a Canon of Padua: V 742. Visited by M and his mother: 878–79.
PARIS. Swann’s house on the Quai d’Orléans: I 20–21 (cf. 346). The dome of Saint-Augustin seen across a jumble of roofs—a Piranesi view of Paris: 90. “Melancholy neighbourhood” of the Champs-Elysées where Gilberte lives: 201. Swann scours the boulevards in search of Odette: 322–28. Odette walks in the Rue Abbattucci (now Rue de la Boétie): 340. Odette’s idea of the smart places in Paris: 344–45. The frozen Seine from the Pont de la Concorde: 565. M’s plan of Paris and obsession with the Swanns’ neighbourhood: 586, 590–92. M’s mother meets Swann in the Trois Quartiers: 588–90. Paris in autumn: 598–601. The Sainte Chapelle “the pearl among them all” (Norpois): II 49. Restaurants of Paris: 77–79. M’s reactions to Parisian architecture; Gabriel’s palaces compared unfavourably to the Trocadéro: 83–84. Paris “darker than today;” indoor and outdoor lighting; Parisian “winter-garden”: 228–29. Spring in Paris; Mme Swann’s walks in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne (now Avenue Foch): 288–98. The Gare Saint-Lazare: 303. Paris street names: 360. Rue d’Aboukir, in the Jewish quarter: 433. The Hôtel de Guermantes, a palace in the heart of Paris: III 9–10. Streets of Paris aflower with unknown beauties: 71. Suburbs of Paris: 204, 207. Rachel and her professional friends—another Paris in the heart of Paris (Place Pigalle, Boulevard de Clichy): 215. Paris in the late afternoon: 275. The Europe district: 585. Poor quarters of Paris reminiscent of Venice; roof-top views: 784. Place de la Concorde on a summer evening: IV 45. A populous, nocturnal Paris brought miraculously close to M by the telephone: 177, 181. M. de Chevregny sees all the shows in Paris: 662–63. Charlus’s dissertation on the ecclesiastical background of Paris street names; the Judengasse: 687–90. Andrée to take Albertine to the Buttes-Chaumont (q.v.): V 15–16. Street cries of Paris: 146–51, 160–63, 174–77. Charm of the old aristocratic quarters lies in the fact that they are also plebeian: 147. M’s drive through Paris with Albertine: 216–29; houses in the boulevards and avenues “a pink congelation of sunshine and cold”: 216; girls in shop-doors, in the streets, in the Bois (q.v.): 216–24; Albertine on the Trocadéro (q.v.): 217–18; charm of the new districts: 218; full moon over Paris: 228. M meets Gisèle in Passy: 231–32. The “spoken newspaper” of Paris: 288. Albertine spends three days in Auteuil: 449–50. Paris by moonlight, seen from the Porte Maillot: 550. Long summer evenings in Paris: 649–51. Paris in war-time: VI 300 passim. Fashion and pleasure, in the absence of the arts; comparison with the Directory: 47–63. The blackout: 63–67. Zeppelin raids: 98–100. Nightfall over Paris; comparison with 1815: 104–6, 161–62. Paris as Pompeii: 169–70 (cf. 209–10); or as Harun al-Rashid’s Baghdad: 173. Hotels and shops closed: 174. M walks through Paris in an air-raid: 207–8, 218. The catacombs of the Métro: 208–9. The Prince de Guermantes’s new house in the Avenue du Bois: 242. The streets near the Champs-Elysées: 243. (See Abbaye-aux-Bois; Bois de Boulogne; Buttes-Chaumont; Champs-Elysées; Trocadéro.)
PARMA. Poetry of the name: