(1625–54) among the former attests to Proust’s love of Dutch landscape painting. Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) was a French rococo painter. Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–87) was a German opera composer.
p. 101,young Richmond: Probably a reference to James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond (1612–55), the subject of a 1637 portrait by Van Dyck.
p. 102,Cnidus: An ancient settlement now in modern-day Turkey.
p. 102,Armida’s gardens: The enchanted gardens of Armida, a sorceress in Jerusalem Delivered (1581) by Torquato Tasso (1544–95), the eponymous protagonist of Gluck’s 1777 opera.
p. 102,Admetus, Iphigenia… Alcestis too: Greek mythological figures that have all featured as characters in various operas by Gluck.
p. 104,Cherubino, Don Giovanni: Characters from Mozart’s operas The Marriage of Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787) respectively.
p. 104,Queen of the Night: A character from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute (1791).
p. 105,Through the oblivion… melancholy scent: From Henri de Régnier’s Sites (1887) VIII, 6–8.
p. 111,And the crazed wind… like an old flag: From ‘Damned Women’, ll. 99–100, in The Flowers of Evil (1857).
p. 114,I think of all… found again: From ‘The Swan’, ll. 45–46, in The Flowers of Evil (1857).
p. 119,But, Fundanius… Horace: From Horace’s Satires, II, 8, 18–19.
p. 119,Maurice Barrès: Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) was a novelist and nationalist politician.
p. 121,the victories of the Prince de Buivres in Dahomey: Dahomey was the name of an African kingdom (present-day Benin), which the French fought and conquered from 1890 to 1894.
p. 125,Heredia: José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) was a Cuban-born French poet.
p. 128,So the poet’s… Emerson: From Emerson’s ‘The Poet’ (1844).
p. 129,A canal… M. de la Motte-Aigron: From the Letters, vol. 1 (1624) of Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654). Jacques de la Motte-Aigron (d.1644) was a friend of Balzac who also wrote a preface to the Letters.
p. 130,after so many others have done so: “And particularly after MM. Maurice Barrès, Henri de Régnier and Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac.” (PROUST’S NOTE)
p. 132,the bird of Juno… with the very eyes of Argus: In Greek mythology, Argus was a giant with many eyes who was instructed by the goddess Hera (Juno) to watch over a white heifer (actually the nymph Io); when he failed to so, Hera became angry and his eyes were transferred to the peacock’s feathers.
p. 132,captive Andromache… herds of Admetus: After her husband Hector got killed by Achilles during the Trojan War, Andromache was enslaved and kept as a concubine by Achilles’s son Neoptolemus. After provoking the ire of Zeus, Apollo was sent to Admetus, the king of Thessaly, to be a shepherd to his flocks.
p. 133,For music is so sweet… within the heart: A quotation from Victor Hugo’s (1802–85) Romantic play Hernani (1830), Act V, Sc. 3.
p. 136,MM. Halévy and Meilhac: The playwrights Jacques François Fromental Élie Halévy (1799–1862) and Henri Meilhac (1831–97), perhaps best known now as the librettists of Bizet’s Carmen.
p. 136,Cythera: One of the Greek Ionian Islands. In Greek mythology, it was regarded as the island of Aphrodite, the goddess of love.
p. 149,L’Invitée by M. de Curel: An 1893 play by François de Curel (1854–1928).
p. 156,Your tears flowed… Anatole France: From Anatole France’s 1876 dramatic poem The Corinthian Nuptials, Part I, Sc. 3.
p. 162,They say that Death… more good than evil: From Book 8, Chapter 1 of History of France (see earlier note).
p. 173,Réveillon: A chateau 90 km east of Paris which belonged to Madelaine Lemaire (see earlier note).
p. 178,Give us good things… Plato: The quotation is from Plato’s (possibly spurious) Alcibiades 2, 143a.
p. 183,Tonkin: Tonkin (or Tongking), the area corresponding to southern Vietnam, was a French protectorate from 1884.
p. 184,Our acts our angels are… Beaumont and Fletcher: From the epilogue to the play The Honest Man’s Fortune (1647), which was probably written by Nathan Field (1587–1620), John Fletcher (1579–1625) and Philip Massinger (1583–1640), without Fletcher’s frequent collaborator Francis Beaumont (1584–1616).
p. 185,Oh lovely little hands that will close my eyes: From Verlaine’s Sagesse (Wisdom) I, 18, 16.
p. 190,The soul may be trusted… Emerson: From ‘Love’ (Essays: First Series, 1841).

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