Gagey, Dr. Emile and Mme 75, 77, 78, 81, 82
Gandolff, Léopold 100n46
Gide, André 36, 46, 83
Giotto di Bondone 9, 58
Glaber, Raoul 101n55
Golden Legend, The 68, 101n53
Gospel according to John 95n13
Grand Hôtel de Cabourg 89
Grasset 96n20
Greffulhe, Henri, Count 98n33
Guitry, Lucien 101n51
Hahn, Reynaldo 29, 52, 64, 80–81, 82, 84, 94n10, 97n27, 99n44
Halévy, Geneviève. See Straus, Geneviève
Haussmann, Boulevard 7, 13, 28, 60–61, 62, 73, 75, 76, 85, 91
Hayman, Laure 7
Helleu, Paul 70
Heugel 94n8
Hôpital Beaujon 96n16
Hôtel d’Albe 54, 98n31
Houlgate 89–90
Hugo, Victor 93n2
Illiers-Combray 74, 79
Impressions That Remained – Memoirs of Ethel Smyth 95n14
Jouy, Jules 100n46
Kafka, Franz 75
Katz, Mme 75
Kolb, Philip 12
La Béraudière, Mme de 55, 98n33
La Bible d’Amiens (Ruskin) 68, 82
Lamartine, Alphonse de 9
La Nouvelle Revue Francaise 11, 36, 44, 46, 96n17
La terre (Jules Jouy) 100n46
Legras powders 74
L’Eldorado 100n46
Le Nouvel Observateur 88
Lerossignol, M. 89–90
Le ruban dénoué (Reynaldo Hahn) 80, 99n44
Les Béatitudes (Franck) 9, 65, 100n47
Les Chimères (Nerval) 97n24
Les contemplations (Hugo) 93n2
Les offrandes blessés: Elégies guerrières (Robert de Montesquiou) 100n49
Les tragiques (Agrippa d’Aubigné) 97n24
Le Vésinet 93n7
L’île du soleil couchant (Joachim Clary) 95n14
Lives of the Saints. See Acta Sanctorum
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 87
Louvain 68
Maeterlinck, Maurice 97n23, 97n25
“Major, the,” 53, 56–57, 98n35
Mallarmé, Stéphane 97n23
Mametz 97n27
Mante-Proust, Suzy 12
Maupassant, Guy de 7
Mauriac-Dyer, Nathalie 94n11
Mes heures perdues (Félix Arvers) 99n42
Monbrison, Jacqueline de. See Rehbinder, Countess Wladimir
Montesquiou, Count Robert de 11, 20, 66, 81, 93n6, 95n14, 100n49
Morand, Paul 83
Musée Carnavalet 79
Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits 14, 88
Nerval, Gérard de 47, 97n24
Noailles, Countess Anna de 47, 79, 84, 96n22
Normandy 25, 89, 93n7
Notre Dame 68
Our Hearts (Maupassant) 7
Pallu, Alphonse 97n28
Pallu, Marie. See Williams, Marie
Parsifal (Wagner) 9
Pelléas and Mélisande (Debussy & Maeterlinck) 47, 60, 97n25, 99n40
Pernolet, Arthur 82
Poulet Quartet 81
“Prométhée triomphant” (Reynaldo Hahn & Paul Reboux) 29, 94n10
Proust Museum 74
Proust, Robert 12
Proust Society 74
Reboux, Paul 94n10
Régnier, Marie de 47, 84
Rehbinder, Countess Wladimir 55, 98n32
Reims 10, 13, 68–69, 85, 101n52
Reszke, Edouard de 99n39
Reszke, Jean de 9, 58, 99n39
Rubinstein, Ida 66, 100n49
Rue du Colisée 55
Rue Galilée 55
Ruskin, John 27, 57, 82, 85
Sagesse (Verlaine) 97n24, 99n38
Sainte-Chapelle 60, 85
Schéikevitch, Marie 101n53
Schwickerath, Eberhard 94n10
Smyth, Ethel 95n14
Stones of Venice, The (Ruskin) 10, 69, 85
Straus, Geneviève 7, 8, 19, 66, 93n1, 93n4
Théâtre Antoine 100n50
Théâtre de la Renaissance 101n51
Théâtre du Châtelet 100n46
Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt 100n49
Thérésa (Emma Valladon) 64, 82, 100n46
Terre, Mme 58, 60, 98n37, 99n41, 100n46
Trépof, Princess 101n53
Trouville 33
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis 94n11
Vauquois 97n27
Verlaine, Paul 8, 20, 47, 58, 97n24, 99n38
Versailles 75
Virgil 96n19
von Otter, Anne Sofie 81
Williams, Doctor, passim
Williams, Marie, passim
Williams, son, passim
Wolff Agency 60, 99n40
Works and characters of Proust
Guermantes Way, The 9, 11, 96n17, 96n20
In Search of Lost Time 9, 73, 85, 93n6, 95n14, 96n21
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower 11–12, 96n17, 96n20, 97n26
Pastiches 94n9
Pleasures and Days 27, 94n8, 100n48
Portraits of Painters 27, 94n8
Swann’s Way 11, 36, 44, 94n9, 96n18
Time Found Again 11, 95n14
Charlus, Baron de 11, 12, 44, 93n6, 95n14
Périgot, Joseph 9
Saint-Loup, Robert de 11
Simonet, Albertine 12
Swann, Charles 11, 44
Swann, Odette 7, 11, 44
Tante Léonie 74
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Proust letters and critical apparatus copyright © 2013 by Éditions Gallimard
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Originally published in French as Lettres à sa voisine
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Names: Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922. | Davis, Lydia, 1947– translator. | Gaudry, Estelle, editor. |
Tadié, Jean-Yves, 1936– editor, writer of foreword.
Title: Letters to his neighbor / Marcel Proust ; translated by Lydia Davis ; text edited and annotated by Estelle Gaudry and Jean-Yves Tadié ; foreword by Jean-Yves Tadié ; translator’s afterword by Lydia Davis.
Description: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017000591 | ISBN 9780811224116 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922—Correspondence. | Williams, Marie, 1885–1931—Corresponden
ce. | Authors, French—19th century—Correspondence. | Authors, French—20th century—Correspondence.
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