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Devil’s Island, 18, 264
dice, 231, 280
see also “One Toss of the Dice”
dictatorship of the proletariat, 86
Dierx, Léon, 289
digital revolution, 285
Dreyfus, Alfred, 18–19, 117, 148, 156, 252, 263, 264
Dreyfus, Mathieu, 19
Drumont, Édouard, 19
Dubois-Davesne, Fanny, 39
Du Camp, Maxime, 86, 87, 88
Duchamp, Marcel, 271–72, 275
“Duel, A” (Maupassant), 82
duels and dueling, 120–21, 240, 267
Dujardin, Édouard, 107, 117, 118–19, 121, 122, 250, 289
Dumas, Alexander, fils, 99
Duret, Théodore, 18
Duval, Jeanne, 44
Dynamism of a Dog in Motion (Balla), 271
Eden, Anthony, 148
Eden, Lady, 149, 150, 151
Eden, Lord William, 148, 151
Edison, Thomas Alva, 23, 157
Edwards, Alfred, 16
Eiffel, Gustave, 156
Eiffel Tower, 142, 225
Einstein, Albert, 27, 305n–6n
SM compared to, 279–85, 305n
electron, 26
11,000 Penises, The (Apollinaire), 267
Eliot, T. S., 26, 148, 276–78, 283
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, 239
Ems Dispatch, 81
Engels, Friedrich, 85
English language, 214, 253–54, 260
Enlightenment, 70
Enquire (Web precursor), 286, 306n
envelopes, 104–5, 116
Essarts, Emmanuel des, 35, 46, 48, 49–50, 61, 62, 77, 90
ether, 282–83
Etiquette Bleue film, 158
Eugénie, Empress, 126
European Organization for Nuclear Research, 286
Evans, Thomas, 119, 125–27, 153, 252
fan, as metaphor, 104
Far East, SM’s interest in, 104
Faulkner, William, 283
Faure, Félix, 239, 264
Félibrige, 19, 77–78, 94
Fénéon, Félix, 45, 120, 151–52
Ferry, Jules, 74
Figaro, Le, 43, 120, 161, 210, 266
Figures and Characters (Figures et caractères; Régnier), 118
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 26, 220
Firmin Didot, 241
Flaubert, Gustave, 66, 112
Florida, S.S.,225
Flowers of Evil, The (Baudelaire), 43
Flying Dutchman, The (Wagner), 108
Fontainas, André, 122
Fontainebleau Forest, 14, 48, 51–52, 112
Forain, Jean-Louis, 110
forensic dentistry, 238, 239
Fort d’Issy, 87
“Fortnight in Society, A” (Satie), 273
Foucaux, Charlotte (Mary Summer), 154
Fournier, Edmond, 154
Four Quartets (Eliot), 278
Foyot’s Restaurant, 151
France juive, La (Drumont), 19
Franck, César, 66
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), 93, 95, 251
effect on France of, 80–90, 108
use of field hospitals in, 126
Frankfurt, Treaty of (1871), 86
Freemasonry, 132
French Academy in Rome, 67
French language, 214, 253
Freud, Sigmund, 27
Fuller, Loïe, 154
Funeral March (Saint-Saëns), 84
futurism, 274
Futurist Manifesto (Boccioni), 271
Gaillard, Nina, 49, 110
Galileo, 75
Galison, Peter, 285
Gallery of Busts (La Galerie des bustes; Roujon), 118
gambling, 77
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 50
Gauguin, Paul, 97, 116
Gautier, Ernesta, 66
Gautier, Judith, 65–66, 67, 79, 110
Gautier, Théophile, 64, 65–66, 111
Gazette des beaux-arts, 112
Gervex, Henri, 128
Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), 109, 157
Ghil, René, 72, 123
Gide, André, 115, 116, 212, 237, 241, 247, 265
Gilkin, Iwan, 76
Gille, Valère, 76
Giraud, Albert, 76
Gladwell, Malcolm, 285
Gobillard, Jeannie, 20, 21, 106
Gobillard, Paule, 20, 21
God, 29, 70, 227–28, 234, 246, 261, 280, 284
Godebski, Cyprian, 16
“Goldbug, The” (Poe), 132
Goncourt, Edmond de, 229
Google, 287
Gounod, Charles, 67
Government of National Defense, 81
Grande Épicerie Anglaise, 153
Grangette, La (Natanson home), 20, 290
Grant, Ulysses S., 126
Greek language, 246, 253
Green, Mary, 49
Greenwich meridian, 224
Greenwich Time, 223
Grévy, Jules, 131
Grimm, Jacob, 251
Grossman, Marcel, 279
guardian angels, 40, 41–42
Guérin, Charles, 14
Guiches, Gustave, 219
Guizot, François, 74
Gutenberg, Johannes, 73
“Gymnopédies, Les” (Satie), 272
Habicht, Conrad, 279
Hachette, 89
Hale, Mrs. Herbert Dudley, 149, 150
Harvard University, 293
Haussmann, Baron, 86
Hebrew language, 252
Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich, 231
Heidegger, Martin, 70
Heine, Heinrich, 148
Heraclitus, 231
Heredia, José-Maria de, 62–63, 90, 98, 113, 241, 289
Heredia, Louise de, 114
Heredia, Marie de, 114
Hermes Trismegistus, 132
Herodias, 62
Herz, Cornelius, 156
hieroglyphs, 132
Hollerith, Herman, 23
Holmès, Augusta, 66, 67, 83, 110, 121, 142–43, 162
Homer, 22, 261
HTML (programming language), 286, 287
Hubbard, Gustave, 263
Hubert, Juliette, 16
Hugo, Victor, 44, 53, 65, 67
Hundred Days (Napoleon I’s return to power), 34
hunting, 101
Hunting of the Snark, The (Carroll), 22
Huret, Jules, 161
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 45, 124, 128, 140, 240
Hydropaths, 110
hypertext, hypermedia, 286
Idea, 60, 71, 78, 109, 123, 163, 230, 232, 303n
Illustrated London News, 90
Immoralist’s Review, The (Aesop’s Feast), 267
Imperial Dragon, The (Gautier), 65
Impressionists, 20, 112
intellection, 229
International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 224
International Exposition of 1900, 275
International Geographic Congress, 224
International Meridian Conference, 224
Internet, 286, 287
intuition, 229
Isidore of Seville, 251
“It’s Raining” (Apollinaire), 269
“J’accuse” (Zola), 263
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 22
japonisme, 112
Jean de Meun, 75
Jockey Club, 109
John the Baptist, Saint, 21, 62
Joplin, Scott (“Maple Leaf Rag”) 275
Journal, Le, 239
Joyce, James, 26, 112, 220, 283
Jud, Charles, 50
July Monarchy (1830–48), 34, 35, 74
July Revolution (1830), 34
Kabbalah, 132
Kafka, Franz, 26, 283
Kahn, Gustave, 148
Kandinsky, Wassily, 23
kinetograph, kinetoscope, 157–58
Labori, Fernand, 264
Ladies’ Paradise (Zola), 103
Lady Eden: Brown and Gold (Whistler), 149–51
Laforgue, Jules, 148
“Lake, The” (“Le Lac”; Lamartine), 161
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 36, 161
languages, see specific languages
Lantelme, Geneviève “Ginette,” 16–17
Latin, 214, 221–22, 253
Laundry, The (Manet), 15
Laurent, Méry, 18, 104, 106, 119, 125, 127–30, 128, 155, 289
Lazare, Bernard, 19, 117, 122
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 148
Lecomte, Claude, 85, 88
Leconte de Lisle, Charles, 64, 113
Lefébure, Eugène, 77, 252
Legendre, Alice, 83
Legendre, Clémence, 83
Legendre, Jules, 83
Le Gray, Gustave, 49
Lejosne, Valentine, 61
Leonardo da Vinci, 86–87
Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 81
Lesseps, Charles de, 156
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 156
“Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité,” 131
Lichtenberger, André, 236
Life of Mallarmé (Mondor), 292–93
light, speed of, 282–83
Lincoln, Abraham, 126
livre de peintre (painter’s book), 25
London International Exhibition, 97
longitudinal zones, 27
Lorentz, Hendrik, 283
Lorrain, Jean, 240
Lost Illusions (Balzac), 73
Louis XVI, King of France, 34
Louis-Philippe, King of the French, 34, 36
Louÿs, Pierre, 114
Low German, 261
Lumière, Antoine, 157
Lumière, Auguste, 25, 157, 158–60, 161, 238
Lumière, Louis, 25, 157, 158–60, 161, 238
“Luther Choral,” 83
Luxembourg Museum, 119
Lycée Impérial (Avignon),77
Lycée Impérial (Sens), 37, 41
Lycée Impérial (Tournon), 60
MacMahon, Patrice de, 87, 88, 131
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 154
Maison Froment-Meurice, 93
Mallarmé, Anatole, 14, 91, 129–34, 136
Mallarmé, Élizabeth, 33, 35, 40
Mallarmé, François René Auguste, 34–35
Mallarmé, Geneviève, 13, 14, 20, 21, 67
birth of, 62
Bonniot’s marriage to, 291
poems accompanying SM’s gifts to, 106
SM’s correspondence with, 145–46
on SM’s death, 289
SM’s fan poem dedicated to, 104
and SM’s final papers, 290–91
and SM’s salon, 121, 122
Whistler’s sketch of, 15
Mallarmé, Jeanne, 36
Mallarmé, Jules Charles Adélaïde, 33
Mallarmé, Maria, 34, 38, 40
Mallarmé, Marie Gerhard, 13, 14, 21
as absent from SM’s salon, 121
effect of Anatole’s death on, 133–34, 290
marriage of SM and, 59–60
poems accompanying SM’s gifts to, 106
pregnancies of, 61–62, 90
SM’s correspondence with, 145–46
SM’s courtship of, 51–52
as SM’s mistress, 54, 57–59
Mallarmé, Numa, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 44, 45, 59
Mallarmé, Stéphane:
Apollinaire compared to, 267–71
autobiographical sketch of, 72
on Battle of Sedan, 80–81
and Bazar de la Charité fire, 241
Béranger’s influence on, 39–40, 44
Bible translation of, 261
birth and childhood of, 33–39
at the Carrefour des Demoiselles, 48–51
Cazalis’s correspondence with, 38, 46, 51, 52, 55, 57–59, 61–62, 68–69, 77, 88–89, 129, 142
on decorative arts, 98
as editor and publisher of The Latest Fashion, 14–15, 92, 98, 99–103
effect of deaths of mother and sister on, 40
effect of final illness and death of son on, 129–30, 133, 134
Einstein compared to, 279–85, 305n
English studied by, 48
envelopes and poetic quatrains of, 104–5, 116
Far East as interest of, 104
Fénéon defended by, 151–52
Figaro interview with, 266
first poem by, 39
French state purchase of Whistler’s Mother negotiated by, 119
as frequent train traveler, 223
on haberdashery, 210
health complaints of, 289
holographic will of, 293
on impending fatherhood, 61–62
on importance of color black, 50, 51
insomnia of, 13, 17, 97, 155
introduction to Ghil’s essay on Symbolism by, 123
as journalist for Le National, 91
and Lamoureux concerts, 113–14
language origins as interest of, 252–61
leaves Avignon, 90
lecture on Villiers by, 143–44
lectures at Oxford and Cambridge given by, 144–47
Méry Laurent as confidante and muse of, 18, 104, 106, 119, 125, 127–30, 128, 152–53, 155, 289
Middle Ages as interest of, 75–76
at Monaco casino, 77
in move to Paris, 108
on movies, 161, 162
music as important to, 114
opera and, 101, 154
otherworldly experience of, 68–69, 71, 78
pets of, 15, 55, 265
poems accompanying gifts from, 105–6
Poe’s “The Raven” translated by, 255
poets’ banquet in honor of, 235–36
as “Prince of Poets,” 17–18, 161
pseudonyms used by, 91, 99
on punctuation, 210–11
and Regnault’s death, 88–89
religious views of, 114, 124
as reviewer of musical and dance performances, 154
Rimbaud article by, 18
on “Rodin affair,” 265
on role of poetry, 255
as Romantic poet, 72
as “sacred spider,” 25
sailing as important to, 17, 22, 33, 247–48, 248
salaries for poets proposed by, 146
salon for young people established by, 115
Satie influenced by, 272–76
Sens Registry Office job of, 45
and smoking, 97, 122
as “syntax man,” 213
Tales and Legends of Ancient India revised by, 154
teaching career of, 14, 60, 67–68, 77, 89, 94, 154–55
Tuesday salons of, 18, 116–19, 117, 121–25, 300n–301n
on Universal Exposition, 142
Valvins home of, 13–17, 19, 21, 51, 76, 106–7, 107, 112–13, 141, 247, 266
Vathek preface by, 222
Verlaine’s correspondence with, 42, 53, 102
and Villiers’s final illness and death, 140–41
Wagner’s influence on, 110, 137, 154, 162, 290
water associated with poetry by, 19
weekly routine of, 113, 125
on Whistler’s lawsuit, 148–50
Zola’s differences with, 264
Mallarmé, Stéphane, works of:
Afternoon of a Faun, 62, 64, 92
The Ancient Gods (Les Dieux antiques), 131, 245–46
“Apparition,” 92
“Autumn Complaint” (“Plainte d’automne”), 245
“The Azure” (“L’Azure”), 61, 92
“Between Four Walls” (notebook), 42
The Book, see Book, The (Grand Ouevre; Mallarmé)
“The Book, a Spiritual Instrument” (essay), 229
“Cantata for the First Communion,” 41
“Catholicism” (essay), 124
“The Cloud” (“Le Nuage”), 41–42
“The Clown Chastised” (Le Pître châtié”), 61, 92
“Crisis in Poetry” (essay), 147
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“Critique” (prelude to The Book), 92
Les Dieux antiques (adaptation of Cox’s Manual of Mythology and Mythology of the Aryan Nations), 252
“The Divinity of Intelligence” (Latin thesis), 252
English Words (Les Mots anglais), 131, 254, 261
The Farce of Maître Pathelin, 75
“Funerary Toast,” 111
“The Guardian Angel,” 40
Hérodiade, 21, 62, 92, 266, 291
Igitur, 78, 79, 89, 92
“Literature. Doctrine” (essay), 247
“A Mother’s Prayer” (“La Prière d’une mère”), 41
“Music and Letters” (essay), 147
“Mystery in Letters” (essay), 299n
Offices (essay), 114
“One Toss of the Dice,” see “One Toss of the Dice” (Mallarmé)
“The Orphan,” 39
“Sea Breeze,” 92
“Sonnet,” 53, 61
“Summer Sadness,” 92
“This Virginal Long-Living Lovely Day” (“Le Vièrge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui”), 131
A Tomb for Anatole (Pour un tombeau d’Anatole), 134–35, 135, 293
“The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe,” 111
Vers et prose (anthology), 154
“Weary of Bitter Rest” (“Las de l’Amer Repos”), 61, 92
“What Silk with Balm from Advancing Days” (“Quelle Soie aux baumes de temps”), 131
“Windows,” 92
“Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow” (“Hier. Aujourd’hui. Demain”), 40
Mallarmé by One of His Own (Mallarmé par un des siens; Dujardin), 117
Mallarmé Museum, 107
Manet, Édouard, 15, 61, 110, 116, 124, 255
Manet, Eugène, 20, 125
Manet, Julie, 20, 21, 105–6, 127, 289
Manual of Mythology (Cox), 131, 245–46, 252
Marchal, Bernard, 301n
Marconi, Guglielmo, 268
Mardists, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 130, 132, 148, 151, 152, 156, 239, 240, 250, 289, 291
Margueritte, Jean-Auguste, 80–81
Marianne (symbol of the Republic), 85
Maric´, Mileva, 279
“Marseillaise, La,” 87, 131
Marx, Karl, 70, 85
Maspero, Gaston, 91
mathematicians, 232–33
Mathieu, Anna (SM’s stepmother), 36, 45, 59
Matin, Le, 16
Matter and Memory (Bergson), 233
Mauclair, Camille, 116–18, 122, 123, 250
Maupassant, Guy de, 45, 82, 85
Maxwell, James Clerk, 281, 283
McClatchy, J. D., 25
McLuhan, Marshall, 244
mean solar time, 223
Meissonier, Ernest, 84
Melville, Herman, 45
Memories of a Young Don Juan (Apollinaire), 267
Mendès, Catulle, 120–21, 130, 211, 289,
as editor of literary journals, 64
on Igitur, 79
Judith Gautier and, 65–67
in liaison with Augusta Holmès, 66
as Mardist, 113, 120, 122–23
as proponent of Wagner, 79, 110
Men of Today, The (Les Hommes d’aujourd’hui; Verlaine, ed.), 132
menorahs, 100