The Captive and The Fugitive by Marcel Proust

Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2023-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

281. Cartier is the name of a famous jeweler, founded in 1900 and located at 13, rue de la Paix in the first arrondissement.

282. Charles Haas, one of the models for Swann, was admitted to the Cercle de la rue Royale. James Tissot’s painting Le Cercle de la rue Royale (1868) shows Charles Haas and other members on the balcony overlooking the place de la Concorde.

283. Général Gaston Auguste, Marquis de Galliffet (1830–1909), was minister of war in the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet from 1899 to 1900, and thus at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. Before that he was known especially for the savagery with which he repressed the Commune de Paris in 1871.

284. Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834–1901) married Winnaretta Singer (1865–1943), the American heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. He and the princess were music lovers and the principal subject of Proust’s article in Le Figaro, September 6, 1903, signed Horatio and entitled “Le Salon de la Princesse Edmond de Polignac.”

285. Gaston de Saint-Maurice was a friend of Charles Haas.

286. Antoine de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy (1841–1909) was active in politics.

287. Boucher (see note 101) designed tapestries for Beauvais, an important center of tapestry and upholstery manufacture.

288. This fire will be alluded to in the Goncourt pastiche in Time Regained.

289. The rue Montalivet is in the eighth arrondissement.

290. Proteus, in Greek mythology, is an old man of the sea to whom Poseidon (Neptune) gave the gift of prophecy and the power to change his form at will.

291. Otto Wegener (1849–1922) was a Swedish photographer who moved to Paris in 1867. He opened a fashionable studio at a fashionable address, 3, place de la Madeleine. Using simply the name Otto, he successfully competed with others such as Félix Nadar for aristocratic customers. He made photographs and cartes de visite of Proust and many other prominent people. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photographers, ed. John Hannavy (New York: Routledge, 2007), p. 1484.

292. Guillaume Lenthéric was an important firm that produced perfumes and cosmetics. It was located at 245, rue Saint-Honoré.

293. In this context, “apache” means a member of a gang of criminals or hooligans, especially in Paris.

294. Henri Désiré Landru (1869–1922) was arrested in April 1919 for the murder of ten women and a young boy. He invited his female victims, to whom he proposed marriage, to his villa where he strangled them and buried their corpses. His trial was held in 1921. Public opinion about his guilt was divided.

295. Plato (429–347 B.C.), Greek philosopher who was a disciple of Socrates.

296. Virgil (c. 70–19 B.C.), Latin poet whom Dante imagines as his guide to Hell in The Divine Comedy.

297. Socrates (c. 470–399 B.C.), Greek philosopher, who displays his wit and wisdom in Plato’s The Symposium.

298. Praxiteles was a Greek sculptor who lived in the fourth century B.C.

299. Jean de La Bruyère (1645–96) was a moralist who translated Les Caractères de Théophraste from the Greek and then wrote his own work, Les Caractères. This approximate quotation is from section 21, Dela mode (On Fashion).

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