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Life

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by Perec, Georges


  Rue Bleue, 244.

  Marshall Islands, 382.

  Marshall McLuhan and the Third Copernican Revolution, lecture by Prof. Strossi, 427.

  MARTENSSEN (Johannes), Danish man of letters, 484n.

  MARTIBONI, contemporary Italian artist, 406, 481.

  MARTIN, historian, 241.

  Martinique, 198.

  MARTINOTTI, Panarchist agitator, 356.

  Marvel Houses Incorporated, 422, 423, 435.

  Marvel Houses International, 423–432, 435.

  Maryland, 388.

  Mask, novel collection, 206.

  Masked Prince, A, by Isabelle Gratiolet, 397.

  Massachusetts, 348.

  MASSINE (Léonide), American choreographer, 444.

  MASSON, French academic publisher, 185.

  MASSY (Albert), 59, 349, 350–358.

  MASSY (Josette), 354, 358.

  Mastering the French Art of Cookery, by H. Fresnel, 260.

  MASTON (J. T.), early twentieth-century English painter, 436.

  Masulipatnam (Bandar) (India), 54.

  Matagassiers, 241.

  MATA HARI, pseudonym of Margareta Gertruide Zelle, Dutch dancer and adventuress, 1876–1917, 281, 283.

  MATHEWS (Harry), 154, 280, 579, 581.

  Matmata (Tunisia), 423.

  MATRASCO (Maritime Transportation Assurance Company), 485, 488, 489, 492.

  MAUBOIS (Madame), 116.

  MAUPASSANT (Guy de), French writer, 1850–1893, 331.

  Mauritania, 258.

  MAUSS (Marcel), French sociologist and ethnologist, 1873–1950, 108.

  MAXIMILIAN, Emperor of Mexico, 1832–1867, 280.

  May ’68 at the Sorbonne, recording, 133.

  Mayenne, 317.

  Mazamet (Tarn), 120.

  MAZARIN (Jules), French statesman, 1602–1661, 256.

  M’CLINTOCH (Francis Leopold), Irish seafarer, 1829–1907, 192.

  MECHAIN (Pierre), French astronomer, 1744–1804, 371.

  Medal of Honor, 308.

  Medical Gazette, The, 195.

  Medical Press, 195.

  Medical Tribune, The, 195.

  Medical Weekly, The, 195.

  Medizinische System der Methodiker, Das, by Meyer-Steineg, 326.

  Meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, jigsaw, 192.

  MEISSAS, 495.

  MELAN (Countess of), 400.

  Melbourne (Australia), 381, 382, 395, 456.

  MELVILLE (Herman), American writer, 1819–1891, 579.

  Mémoires sur la vie de Jean Racine, by Louis Racine, 400.

  Memoirs, by Falckensckiold, 199.

  Memories of a Struggler, by Rémi Rorschach, 48.

  MENDOZA (Victor Manuel), Mexican actor, 277.

  Ménoalville, 437.

  Men Who Wear Green, The, comedy by Flers and Caillavet, 487.

  MEPHISTOPHELES, 230, 310–314.

  Mercator, play by Plautus, 263.

  Merciles Beaute, by Chaucer, 375.

  Mercure de France, Le, literary review, 331.

  MERCURY, god, 369, 437.

  Merkur, German literary review, 331.

  METHUSELAH, 281, 283.

  Meudon (Yvelines), 395n.

  MEURSAULT, character in L’Etranger, by Albert Camus, 207.

  Meuse, department of, 33.

  Mexico, 208, 261, 280, 285, 346, 395, 425.

  Mexico City, 31, 357.

  MEYER-STEINEG, medical historian, 326.

  MEYSONNIER (Lazare), doctor and alchemist from Mâcon, 1602–1672, 475.

  Miami (Florida), 261, 412.

  Burbank’s Motel, 413

  Hialeah, 412

  Monkey Jungle, nightclub, 449.

  Michael Strogoff, novel by Jules Verne, xiii.

  MICHARD (Félicien), a floor scrubber, character in G. Berger’s story, 158–161.

  MICHELOT, 495.

  Michigan, 208.

  Mickey Mouse, 328.

  MIDAS, King of Phrygia, 328.

  Middle East, 44, 45.

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, play by William Shakespeare, 331.

  Milan (Italy), 353, 449.

  Milo (Cyclades), 127.

  Milwaukee (Wisconsin), 383.

  Mimizan (Landes), 140.

  Mindanao (Philippines), 54.

  Minerva, 396.

  MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, count of), 1749–1791, 132.

  Miraj (India), 425.

  MIRBEAU (Octave), 1848–1917, 103.

  Miscellany, by E. Renan, 50.

  Misérables, Les, novel by Victor Hugo (1861), 257.

  Mississippi (river), 411, 466, 467.

  Mississippi Sunset, song by Sam Horton, 181.

  MISTER MEPHISTO, stage name of Henri Fresnel, 257–258.

  MISTINGUETT, pseudonym of Jeanne Bourgeois, singer, 1875–1956, 258.

  Mithridate, tragedy by Jean Racine (1673), 303.

  Mobile (Alabama), 411.

  Moçamedes (Angola), 346.

  Moderne Probleme der Pädiatrie, 479.

  Mohawks, Indian tribe, 453.

  Moka (North Yemen), 126.

  MOLIERE, pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, French playwright, 1622–1673, 255, 364.

  MOLINET, professor at the Collège de France, 281.

  MÖLLER, urologist, 479.

  Mombasa (Kenya), 347.

  Monachus tropicalis, 83.

  MONACO (Mario del), Italian tenor, 234.

  Mona Lisa, portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, 39.

  MOND (Peter), six-dayer, 351.

  Monde, Le, French daily newspaper, 136, 237, 338.

  MONDINO DI LUZZI, Milanese anatomist, died in 1326, 271.

  MONDUIT & BECHET, foundrymen, 470.

  Monêtier-les-Bains (Hautes-Alpes), 350.

  Moniteur Universel, Le, Paris news digest, 386.

  MONK (Ray), 281.

  MONPOU (Hippolyte), French composer, 1804–1851, 454.

  MONROE (Marilyn), stage name of Norma Jean Baker, American actress, 1926–1962, 293.

  MONSIEUR JOURDAIN, character in Molière’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, 257.

  MONSIEUR LULU, pseudonym of Lucien Campen, 141.

  MONTALESCOT (L. N.), French painter, 1877–1933, 421.

  Montargis (Loiret), 41, 66, 127.

  Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), 85.

  Monte Carlo, 146.

  Monte Ceneri (Italy), 471.

  Montenegro (Yugoslavia), 246.

  Montenotte (Italy), Battle of (1796), 50.

  MONTESQUIEU (Charles de Secondat, seigneur de la Brède et de), French philosopher, 1689–1755, 176, 198.

  MONTGOLFIER (Joseph), and MONTGOLFIER (Etienne), inventors, 199.

  MONTGOMERY (Hal), 427.

  Montlhéry (Essonne), 325, 351.

  Montpellier (Hérault), 140, 198, 199.

  Montreal (Canada), 35.

  Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine), 249.

  MOON (Archibald), American actor, 281, 283.

  MORANDI (Giorgio), Italian painter, 1890–1964, 429.

  MOREAU (Marie-Thérèse), 60, 68, 69–70, 74, 95–101, 106, 127, 164, 216, 301, 307, 316, 317, 340–343, 447, 450, 452, 454, 496, 500.

  MOREL, 356.

  MORELLET (Benjamin), chemistry lab technician, 20–24, 30–31, 57, 65, 124, 126, 127, 162, 164, 195, 210, 216, 218, 237, 241, 286, 337, 434, 451, 497.

  Moret-sur-Loing (Seine-et-Marne), 439.

  MORGAN (Michèle), pseudonym of Simone Roussel, French actress, 277.

  Moriane, 375.

  Morocco, 182, 245, 258.

  MORREL D’HOAXVILLE, nineteenth-century English portrait painter, 329.

  MOSCA (Fanny), soprano, 401.

  Mosel (river), 155, 343.

  Motu, a Papuan tribe, 389.

  Mouches, Les, by J.-P. Sartre, 460.

  Moulin-Rouge, Le, Paris cabaret, 394, 488.

  Mousetrap, The, novel by Paul Winther, 68.

  Mozambique, 425, 426, 428.

  MOZART (Johann Chrisostomus Wolfgang Gotlib, known as Wolfgang Amadeus
), Austrian musician, 1756–1791, 232, 321.

  MOZART (Leopold), German composer, 1719–1787, 321.

  MOZART (Maria-Anna), Austrian singer, 1751–1829, 321.

  Muckanaghederdauhaulia (Eire), 52.

  MUGGINS, 483.

  Mukden (USSR), 448.

  MULLIGAN (Gerald Joseph, known as Gerry), jazz musician, 37.

  Munich (Germany), 292, 394.

  Murano (Italy), 51.

  Murder of the Goldfish, The, detective novel, 221.

  Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie, 161.

  Murders at Pigalle, by Kex Camelot, 175.

  MURILLO (Bartolome Esteban), Spanish painter, 1618–1682, 430.

  Muscat (Arabia), 471.

  Musée Carnavalet, 321.

  Musi (river in Sumatra), 107.

  Music-Lover’s Almanack, The, 214.

  Musoeum Odescalcum, 89.

  MUSSET (Alfred de), French writer, 1810–1857, 331.

  MUSSORGSKY (Modeste), Russian composer, 1839–1891, 19.

  MUTT (R.), 280.

  Mysterious Island, The, novel by Jules Verne, 23, 345.

  Mysterious Island, The, painting by L. N. Montalescot, 421.

  Mysterious Stranger, The, by Mark Twain, 467.

  Nabeul (Tunisia), 94.

  NABOKOV (Dmitri), 581.

  NABOKOV (Vladimir Vladimirovich, pen-name Sirin), American writer of Russian extraction, 1899–1970, 579, 581.

  NAHUM (Elzéar), art critic, 35, 279.

  Namur (Belgium), 227, 362.

  Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), 199.

  Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), 199.

  Nantucket (Massachusetts), 113.

  Naples (Italy), 84, 269, 466.

  NAPOLEON 1, French Emperor, see also Bonaparte, 39, 83, 152, 174, 198, 242, 372, 373, 374, 376, 377, 495.

  NAPOLEON II, François-Charles-Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte), Duke of Reichstadt, known as “L’Aiglon”, Paris, 1811–Schönbrunn, 1832, 156.

  NAPOLEON III, 207, 312, 494.

  Nassau (Bahamas), 422.

  Nassau Bay (Cape Horn), 178.

  Natal (South Africa), 302.

  National Foundation for the Development of the Southern Hemisphere, 390.

  National Union of Foresters and Woodcutters (Australia), 382.

  Nationwide Bilge, American satirical journal, 316.

  Natural History Museum, 83.

  Naturalist, The, 436.

  Naughties, Milan nightclub, 449.

  Naxos (Cyclades), 127.

  Neauphle-le-Château, 440, 442.

  NEBEL, German officer, 120.

  Nef, La, literary review, 331.

  NELSON (Horatio, Viscount), British Admiral, 1758–1805, 227, 326, 447.

  NEMO (Prince Dakkar, called Captain), character in Jules Verne, 25, 181, 345.

  Nemo Club (Dempledorf), 499.

  Nem szükséges, hogy kilépj a házból, film by Gabor Pelos, 466.

  NERCIAT (André-Robert Andréa, chevalier de), French writer, 1739–1806, 322.

  NERO (Claudius Dominicus Claudius), Roman Emperor, 37–68 AD, 38, 64.

  NERVAL (Gérard de), pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie, French writer, 1808–1855, 270, 292.

  Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), 204.

  NEUSIEDLER (Hans), German musician, 473.

  Neuweiler (Germany), 140.

  Neva (river), 302.

  Nevada, 466.

  New Art Review, 35.

  New bedford (Massachusetts), 91, 92, 94.

  Hotel Xiphias, 91.

  New Brass Ensemble of Michigan State University at East Lansing, 208.

  New Caledonia, 127, 198.

  Newcastle (NSW), 16.

  Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Tyne and Wear), 15, 16, 324.

  New Century Dictionary, 99.

  Newfoundland (Canada), 55.

  New Guinea, 389.

  New Insights into Early Denominations of America, paper given by J. M. de Zaccaria at the 3rd Congress of the International Union of Historical Sciences (Edinburgh, 1887), 385.

  New Key to your Dreams, attributed to Henry Barrett, 183.

  New Mexico, 425.

  New Orleans (Louisiana), 92, 411, 413.

  Newport (R. I.), 449.

  New South Wales (Australia), 16.

  New York (NY), 31, 39, 40, 86, 87, 91, 114, 173, 181, 258, 395, 480, 483, 581.

  Broadway, 259.

  Carson College, 175.

  Columbia University, 85.

  Ellis Island, 499.

  Frick Collection, 173.

  Manhattan, 32.

  Rockefeller Collection, 429.

  St Marks-in-the Bowery, 258.

  Statue of Liberty, 258, 470.

  Wall Street, 47.

  New York Herald Tribune, 338.

  New Zealand, 390.

  NEZ PERCÉS, Indian tribe, 453.

  Nicaragua, 258.

  Nice (Var), 40, 113, 165, 480.

  Nicolas Wine Company, 161, 327.

  NIETO (Joseph), Franz Hutting’s chauffeur, 33–34, 128, 227, 496.

  NIETZSCHE (Friedrich), German writer, 1844–1900, 319.

  Nieuwe Courant, Utrecht daily, 90, 94.

  Night on the Pampas, A, calendar, 286.

  NIKOLAY II (Aleksandrovich), last Czar of Russia, 1868–1918, 157.

  Nile (river), 248, 319, 372, 373.

  Nîmes (Gard), 199.

  Nine, 416.

  Nine Muses, The, set of prints attributed to L. Gaultier, 171.

  Nirvana, Berlin nightclub, 449.

  Nivillers (Oise), 270, 499.

  NOAH, 279, 285.

  NOCHERE (Emilie), concierge at 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier, 4, 17, 23, 29, 31, 32, 41, 66, 162–165, 195, 217, 393, 467, 499.

  NOCHERE (Henri), staff sergeant, 162.

  NOCHERE (Martine), 28, 165, 217.

  NOKIBA NO OGI, character in the Genji-Monogatari, 103.

  NOLT (Boris Baruq), a Cabbala scholar from Antwerp, 263.

  No Money? No Swiss, caricature, 370.

  NONAGENAIRE, 335.

  Normandy, by Cassandre, 98.

  North Cape (Norway), 55.

  NORVELL (Eleanor), 381.

  NORVELL (Olivia) (Mme Rémi Rorschach), 380–383, 451, 468–469, 496.

  Notre-Dame de Paris, 303, 465.

  Nottingham (England), 443.

  Nouméa (New Caledonia), 187, 261, 395.

  Nouveau-Cirque, Le, Parisian circus, 214.

  Nouveau Film Français, Le, specialist journal, 469.

  Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré, French encyclopaedic dictionary, 155.

  Nouvelle Carte … de la France, by L. Sonnet, 198.

  Nouvelle République, La, French regional journal, 96.

  Nummophylacius reginae Christinae, by Havercamp, 89.

  NUNGESSER (Charles), French airman, 1892–1927, 258.

  NUNNELY (Charles), Irish Arabist, 264.

  Nuremberg (Germany), 84, 206.

  OAS, nationalist military organization, 212.

  OBERKAMPF (Christophe-Philippe), French industrialist, 1738–1815, 495.

  O’BRIEN (Barton), cruciverbist, 453.

  O’BRIEN (Bobby), 443.

  Oceania, 54, 382.

  Octagon, The, gambling den, 356.

  Ocumum basilicum, 347.

  Odds and Endpieces, strip cartoon by Gotlib, 160.

  Odeon, The, suburban cinema, 443.

  Odes and Songs, by J.-P. Uz, 288.

  Of Stones and Men, book by F. Hutting, 34.

  OGIER, jack of clubs (?), 169.

  Ohio, 175, 296.

  Oise, department of, 229, 270.

  Okinawa (Japan), 338, 382.

  Oland (Sweden), 424, 425.

  Old Lady with the little dog, 127.

  Old Lightning, see Palmerston.

  ONE-MAN-AFRAID-OF-HIS-HORSE Sioux chief, 453.

  O’LEARY (Ken), a Canadian gossip, 281.

  Oléron (island off the west coast of France), 157, 272, 273, 302, 499.

  OLIVET (Bertrand d’), Paris art d
ealer, 400.

  OLIVETTI, warrant officer, 162.

  Olivia Fan Club of Tasmania, 382.

  Olivia Norvell Story, The, 395.

  OLLIVE (François), seventeenth-century mapmaker from Marseilles, 329.

  OLMSTEAD (Olav), eighteenth-century Norwegian geographer, 289.

  On Crimes and Their Punishment, by Beccaria, 91.

  One Swallow doesn’t make a Mummer, decorated plate, 249.

  ONIONS (C. T.), English lexicographer, 289.

  Onomastica, 388.

  OPEC, 300.

  OPHELIA, a character in Hamlet, 172.

  OPTIMUS MAXIMUS, a dachshund, 280, 283.

  Oran (Algeria), 162, 376, 379.

  Orange (Vaucluse), 147, 148.

  Orang-Kubus, see Anadalams, 107–112.

  Orestes, by Alfieri, 364.

  ORFANIK (Count), 19, 229, 367.

  Orient Express, train, 161.

  Oriental Saloon and Gambling House, The, 412.

  Orinoco (river), 384.

  Orlando (Florida), 425, 427.

  Orlando, opera by Arconati, 19, 229.

  Orléans (Loiret), 85.

  ORLOV (Colonel Stepan Sergeievich), the “Butcher of Kuban”, 150.

  ORLOV (Sergei Ilarionovich), Russian ambassador, 150.

  ORLOVA (Véra), see Beaumont (Véra de), 19, 20, 145, 150, 175.

  ORLOWSKA (Elzbieta), 28, 57, 58, 128, 210, 212, 215, 216, 217, 227, 264–270, 499.

  ORLOWSKI (Mahmoud), 195, 215, 268, 270.

  ORPHEUS, 280.

  Orrery, type of planetarium, 278.

  Osaka (Japan), 424, 425, 428.

  Osaka-Wan (Japan), 424.

  Ostend (Belgium), 277.

  OTELLO, character in Verdi’s opera, 313.

  Othello, tragedy by Shakespeare, 364.

  OTHER (A. N.), 483.

  OTHON, Roman emperor, 32–69 AD, 64.

  OTTEN (Reinier), map-maker, 389.

  Ottok (Austria), 424, 425.

  Ottoman Empire, 87.

  Ouargla (Algeria), 486.

  Ouarzazate (Morocco), 427, 428.

  OUDRY (Jean-Baptiste), painter and print-maker, 1686–1755, 196.

  OURAY-THE-ARROW, 453.

  Ourcq, canal, 32.

  Outer Mongolia, 249.

  Outsider, The, novel by Albert Camus, 207.

  Ovetum, old name for Oviedo, 9.

  Oviedo (Spain), 9, 10, 367, 368.

  OVID, 437.

  OWEN (H.), English theologian, 1719–1795, 289.

  OWEN (U. N.), English painter, 62.

  Oxford (England), 428.

  Bodleian Library, 477.

  Exeter College, 428.

  Oyster-Breeder’s Almanach, The, 214.

  Pacific Ocean, 260, 336, 389.

 

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