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by Perec, Georges


  STERNE (Lawrence), English novelist, 1713–1768, 289, 579.

  Stickiehaven (England), 141, 142.

  Stilton (England), 209, 210.

  Stockholm (Sweden), 449.

  STOESSEL, 447.

  Stone’s Hill (Florida), 412.

  Storia dei Romani, La, by G. de Sanctis, 409.

  STRABO, Greek geographer, first century BC, 249.

  STRAIGHT (Dorothy), 581.

  Strasbourg (Rhin), 137, 383.

  STRAVINSKY (Igor Fedorovich), American composer, 1882–1971; 64.

  STROSSI, professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, 427.

  STRUVE, Russian ambassador, 410.

  STURGEON (Theodore), American novelist, 579.

  Stuttgart (Germany), 12, 395n.

  SUETONIUS (Caius Suetonius Tranquillus), C.70–c.128 AD, Roman historian, 64, 289.

  Suez Canal Company, 99.

  SUIDAS, hypothetical Greek lexicographer of the tenth century, 449.

  Suite sérielle 94, by Octave Coppel, 349.

  SULEIMAN EL-HALEBI, the assassin of Kléber, 39.

  Sumatra, 107, 109.

  SUMMERHILL (Lord Christopher Willoughby), 401.

  Summer Visions, calendar, 285.

  Sur le clivage pyramidal des albâtres et des gypses, by Otto Lidenbrock, 410.

  Susquehanna Mammy, song by Sam Horton, 181.

  SUTTON (Jane), 35–36, 51, 58, 59, 212, 215, 227, 394, 418, 469, 499.

  Suzaku, temple at Kyoto, 207.

  Swan Lake, ballet by Tchaikovsky, 438.

  Sweden, 425, 489.

  SWEDENBORG (Emmanuel), Swedish theosophist, 1688–1772, 309, 310.

  Swetham (Massachusetts), Fitchwinder Foundation, 429.

  Swiss Centre (London), 142.

  Switzerland, 39, 140, 184, 364, 399, 425, 427, 440, 495.

  Sydney (Australia), iv, 380.

  SYLVANDER, pen-name of C.-A. Beyssandre, 431.

  Sylwia i inne opowiadania, Polish translation of Gérard de Nerval’s Les Filles du feu (The Fire-Girls), 270.

  Symphony No. 70 in D, by Haydn, 100.

  Syracuse (Italy), 84.

  Syria, 210, 211, 212.

  Syrinx, a nymph, 417.

  Systèmes d’échanges interafricains, Les. Mythes et réalités, article by A. Zghal, 48.

  Szczyrk (County of Krakow, Poland), 287.

  SZINOWCZ, see Cinoc.

  Tabarka (Tunisia), 181.

  Tableau des riches inventions couvertes du voile des feintes amoureuses …, by Béroalde de Verville, 271.

  Tahiti, 395, 425.

  Taiwan (Formosa), 54, 308.

  Takaungu (Kenya), 347.

  Tales of Grandma Goose, by Charles-Robert Dumas, 366.

  Tallahassee (Florida), 411.

  TALMA (François-Joseph), actor, 1763–1826, 364.

  Tampa (Florida), 412.

  Tanganyika, 46.

  Tangerine Dream, The, Paris nightclub, 488.

  Tangiers, 449, 471.

  Tanzania, 425.

  Tarawa, 382.

  Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées), 45.

  Tarragon (Spain), 342.

  Tarzan, character in works by E. R. Burroughs, 83.

  TASKERSON (Hambo), Swedish philologist, 110.

  Tasmania, 337, 382.

  TASSIN (René-Prosper), Benedictine monk and scholar, 1697–1777, 437.

  TAUSCHNITZ, German publisher of English books, 328.

  TAVERNIER (Jean-Baptiste), French traveller, 1605–1689, 175.

  TAZO-KATZURA, Japanese prime minister, 448.

  TEBALDI (Renata), singer, 234.

  Tempesta di mare, La, concerto in Eb major, opus 8, No. 5, by Vivaldi, 133.

  TEMPLE (Helen), 581.

  TEMPLE (Shirley), American actress and politician, 380.

  Terror, The, ship, 192.

  THADDEUS (Ludwig), American physicist of German origin, 298.

  Thames (river), 443.

  Théâtre de la Cité, see Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt.

  Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, 460.

  The Beast, pseudonym of Julien Etcheverry, pop singer, 137.

  The Donkey in Trousers, London pub, 445.

  The Empire, Paris concert Hall, 158.

  The Famous Bouillabaisse, restaurant, 214.

  The Gay Musketeers, toyshop, 467.

  The Greens, London pub, 444.

  “The Miner” and the Origins of the Labour Party, by Irwin Wall, 410.

  The Star, Beirut nightclub, 38, 449.

  The Two Hemispheres, cabaret at Montmartre, 488.

  THIERARCH’ (Estelle), saxophonist, 481.

  THIERS (Louis-Adolphe), French politician, 1797–1877, 198, 204.

  This Golden Serp in the Field of Stars, chamber opera by Philoxanthe Shapska, after V. Hugo’s Booz endormi, 271.

  THOMAS, Bartlebooth’s former footman, 114.

  THOMAS DI GIOVANNI (N.), 581.

  Thomas Kyd’s Imperial Mixture, brand of whisky, 300.

  Thonon-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie), 241.

  THOREZ (Maurice), French politician, 1900–1964, 457.

  Thorn, see Toruń.

  THORWALDSSON, Norwegian painter, 133.

  Those Ladies in Green Hats, by Germaine Acremant, 211.

  Three Free Men, The, sect, 11, 13, 230.

  Three Magi, The, tapestry, 302, 437.

  Three Sergeants’ Syndrome, The, 162.

  Three sisters, 415.

  Thuburbo Majus (Tunisia), 228, 277.

  TICINENSES, 289.

  Ticino (Switzerland), 172.

  T’ien Tsin, 280, 283.

  Tierra del Fuego, 178.

  TIETJEN (Heinz), opera producer, 235.

  Time Magazine, 394.

  Times, The, London daily, 192, 338, 385.

  TINTIN, character invented by Hergé, 371.

  Tipperary (Eire), 43.

  TITANIA, heroine of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 171.

  TITO, pseudonym of Josip Broz, Yugoslav statesman, 457.

  TITORELLI, Italian designer, 342.

  TODD (R.), 581.

  Todt Organization, 186.

  TOGO, Japanese admiral, 447.

  Tombstone (Arizona), 412.

  TONE (Theobald Wolfe), Irish revolutionary, 1763–1798, 372.

  Tonkin, 292.

  TOOTEN (H. M.), American anthropologist, 276.

  Torah, 409.

  Torquay (England), 146.

  TORTOSA (Diego), Spanish painter of the verbalist school, 481.

  TORTOSI (Fabricio), Italian stylist of the 1920s, 77.

  Toruń (Thorn) (Poland), 196.

  Touch of Madness, A, see Knock on Wood, 160.

  Touggourt (Algeria), 486.

  Toulon (Var), 255, 474.

  Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), 328, 478.

  Church of St Sernin, 85.

  Tours (Indre-et-Loire), 249, 272.

  TOUSTAIN (Charles-François), Benedictine monk and scholar, 1700–1754, 437.

  Towards a Planetary Consciousness, article by E. Nahum, 35.

  Toy Trader, The, specialist journal, 191.

  Trabzon (Turkey), 435.

  Tractatio de renibus, by Eustache, 478.

  Trafalgar, 373.

  Transatlantic Panorama, display at the Universal Exhibition, 404.

  Trapezes, The, pop group, 137.

  TRAPP (Organ), American hyperrealist, 330.

  Travels in Baltistan, by P. O. Box, 409.

  Traviata, La, 235.

  Treaty of Versailles, 83.

  TRENET (Charles), French singer, 294.

  TREVINS (Madame), 68, 70, 97, 101, 342, 343, 447, 448, 450, 451, 454, 459, 496, 500.

  TREVINS (Adelaïde), Mme Trévins’s imaginary niece, 448, 450.

  TREVINS (Arlette), Mme Trévins’s sister, see Commine, 450.

  TREVINS (Daniel), Mme Trévins’s imaginary brother, 448.

  TREVINS (Marie-Thérèse), Mme Trévins’s imaginary niece, 449, 450.

  TREVINS (Noelle), Mme Trévins’s imaginary niece, 449, 450. />
  TREVINS (Odile), Mme Trévins’s imaginary niece, 449, 451.

  TREVINS (Roseline), Mme Trévins’s imaginary niece, 450.

  Tricephalous Mother–Goddess, basalt statue, 55–56.

  Trieste (Italy), 246.

  TRIPTOLEMY, Greek grammarian, seventh century, 289.

  Triptych of the Last Judgment, by Roger van der Weyden, 277.

  Tristan de Cunha, 179.

  Trobriand Islands, 389.

  Troides allottei, 83.

  “Trois Hommes Libres, Les”, see The Three Free Men, 11.

  Tromsö (Norway), 471.

  TROQUET, man who made cork figurines, 61, 197, 234.

  TROTSKY (Leo), pseudonym of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, 150.

  Trout (Canada), 425, 426, 428.

  TROYAN, bookseller, 59, 196, 199, 234, 240.

  TROYAT (Henri), French novelist, 144.

  True Story of Philemo and Bauci, 437.

  TSINOC, see Cinoc.

  TS’UI PEN, Chinese philosopher, 263.

  Tunis, 267.

  Rue de Turquie, 268.

  Tunisia, 94, 232, 266, 267, 269, 335, 363.

  TUNNEY (James Joseph, alias Gene), American boxer, 175.

  Turin (Italy), 15, 85.

  Turkey, 28, 54, 310, 425, 435.

  Turkish Bath, The, painting by Ingres, 40, 228.

  Turkish March, The, by W. A. Mozart, 165.

  TURNER (Joseph Mallard William), English painter, 1775–1851, 40.

  TV News, American specialist journal, 461.

  TWAIN (Mark), pseudonym of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, American writer, 1835–1910, 232, 466–467.

  Twelve Tones, Newport nightclub, 449.

  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, novel by Jules Verne, 25.

  Twenty Years After, sequel to The Three Musketeers, by A. Dumas, 362.

  TWINKER (Grace), 258–260.

  TWINKIE, see Grace Twinker, 258, 259, 260.

  U (Caroline Islands), 52.

  UAE, 422.

  Ulan Bator Hoto (Mongolia), 249.

  Ulverston (Lancashire, UK), 82.

  Umetnost, Yugoslav art review, 174.

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852), 30.

  Underwood, make of typewriter, 155.

  UNDERWOOD (J. A.), 581.

  UNESCO, 419.

  Unfinished Symphony, The, novel, 14.

  Unforgettable Vienna, tourist film, with Olivia Norvell, 394.

  Unicorn and Castle, The, London pub, 443.

  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 54, 128.

  United States of America, 75, 92, 141, 173, 175, 182, 187, 233, 258, 260, 282, 297, 308, 315, 316, 357, 382, 394, 405, 425 & n.

  Universal Exhibition (1900), 404.

  Untersuchungen über die Taufe Amerikas, lecture by Zapfenschuppe, 383.

  Upper Boubandjida (Cameroon), 76.

  UPPER BOUBANDJIDA MINING Co., 74, 75–76.

  Upper Dogon (Mali), 463.

  UPPER DOGON RAILWAY COMPANY, 463.

  Urbana (Illinois), 34.

  Urbino (Italy), 235.

  URQUHART (Sir Thomas), 581.

  Uruguay, 425.

  USHIDA, Japanese engineer, 187.

  UTHERPANDRAGON, King, 36.

  Utrecht (Holland), 88, 89, 91, 94.

  College of St Jerome, 88, 89, 91.

  Hoogeland Park, 90.

  Museum van Oudheden, 89, 90, 94.

  UTSUSEMI, character in the Genji-Monogatari, 103.

  UZ (Jean-Pierre), German poet, 1720–1796, 288.

  VALBONNE, songwriter, 414.

  Valdrada, 222.

  Valence (Drôme), 148.

  Valencia (Spain), 253.

  Valenciennes (Nord), 437.

  VALENE (Serge), 16, 17, 23, 26–28, 30–33, 40, 48, 55, 59–62, 115–117, 121–123, 125, 127, 128, 168–170, 194, 204, 212, 214, 217–219, 226–233, 242, 244–246, 286, 393, 401, 471, 499, 500.

  Valet d’auberge, Le, by Le Bas after Chardin, 421.

  VALJEAN (Jean), hero of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, 281.

  Valley of the Moon, The, by Jack London, 393.

  VALLOTTON (Félix), French painter, 1865–1925, 401.

  Valpolicella, an Italian wine, 414.

  Valteline Valley (Switzerland), 427.

  Vancouver Island (Canada), 270.

  VAN DEECKT (Jakob), see Guido Mandetta, 89, 90, 94.

  VAN DERCKX (Léo), baritone, 481.

  VANDERSTUYFT (Léon), racing cyclist, 351.

  VAN DER WEYDEN (Rogier de la Pasture), Flemish painter, 1400–1464, 277.

  VAN EFFEN (Justus), 89.

  Van Houten, brand of cocoa, 295.

  VAN SCHALLAERT (Theo), see Guido Mandetta, 90, 91–93.

  VAN SLYKE, urologist, 479.

  Vanves (Hauts-de-Seine), 249.

  VANZI (Gabriella), a character in Pirandello, 189.

  Variety, US showbusiness magazine, 181.

  VASARELY (Victor), French painter, 49.

  Vassieux-en-Vercors (Isère), 112.

  Vechten (Holland), 89, 90.

  VELLA, Turinese physiologist of the nineteenth century, 15.

  Vence (Alpes-Maritime), 424, 425, 427.

  Vendôme column, 470.

  Vendredi, weekly, 204.

  Venetian Woman, The, painting, 104.

  Venezuela, 258, 385.

  Venice (Italy), 36, 84, 87, 139, 423, 427.

  Grand Canal, 166.

  SS Apostoli, 84.

  St Mark’s, 84.

  S Silvestro-in-capite, 85.

  Venice in Paris, pavilion at the Universal Exhibition, 404.

  VENTER (Stewart), television director, 271.

  VENTURA (Ray), conductor, 363.

  VENUS, goddess, 421.

  Venus in Furs, by Sacher-Masoch, 331.

  VERA, a prostitute, 140, 141.

  VERDI (Guiseppi), 1813–1901, 256, 483.

  Verdun, 244.

  VERCINGETORIX, Gaulish chieftain, c.72–46 BC, 199.

  Verein für musikalische Privataufführung, 19.

  VERMEER (Jan, called Vermeer van Delft), Dutch painter, 1632–1675, xvi, 190.

  VERMOT, writer of almanachs, 31.

  VERNE (Jules), 1828–1905, xiii, 292, 345, 579.

  Verona (Italy), 120, 121, 123, 455.

  VERREZANO (Giovanni da), Italian seafarer, 1495–1528, 386.

  Verrières-le-Buisson (Essonne), 127.

  Versailles (Yvelines), 37, 83, 116. Lycée Hoche, 442.

  VESALIUS (André), Flemish anatomist, 1514–1564, 476.

  VESPUCCI (Amerigo), 232, 384, 386.

  Vézelay, 85.

  Vézelize (Meurthe-et-Moselle), 73.

  VICARIUS, 289.

  Vichy (Allier), 273, 448.

  VICTOIRE, 213.

  VICTOR IV, antipope (1138), 9.

  Victoria Cross, 382.

  Vienna (Austria), 19, 85, 108, 110, 394.

  Vienna (Austria), School of, 19.

  Vienna School and Family Hotel, 403.

  Vienne (Isère), 416.

  Vienne and Romans Reveille, regional daily, 416.

  Vierzon (Cher), 272.

  Villa d’Ouest, a nightclub in Paris, 292, 293, 295, 488.

  Villar d’Arène, 350.

  Vincennes, 351, 362, 400.

  VINTEUIL, a musician in A la Recherche du temps perdu, 281.

  VIOLA, a character in Twelfth Night, by W. Shakespeare, 171.

  Vire, 414.

  Vita brevis Helenae, by Arnaud de Chemillé, 84, 86–87, 94.

  VITRY (Nicolas de l’Hospital, Marquis de), 1581–1644, 49.

  VIVALDI (Antonio), Italian composer, 1678–1741, 133, 427.

  VLADISLAV, artist, 481, 482.

  VOLLARD (Ambroise), art dealer, 1868–1939, 401.

  VOLTAIRE, pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet, French writer, 1694–1778, 364, 443.

  VOLTIMAND (Anne, née Winckler), 5, 244.

  VOLTIMAND (Cyrille), 244.

  VOLTIMAND (Grégoire), 5.

 
Vosges, 199.

  Voyage en Icarie, by Etienne Cabet, 464.

  Voyages of Tavernier and Chardin and the Image of Persia in Europe from Scudéry to Montesquieu, The, doctoral thesis by A. Flexner, 175.

  VOUDZOI (Luigi, Prince of Poldavia), 128.

  VUILLERMÉ, puppeteer, 403.

  VYSHISKAVA (Maria Fedorovna), American ballerina of Russian origin, 410.

  Wachenheimer Oberstnest, a Rhine wine, 300.

  WAINEWRIGHT, eighteenth-century painter and collector, 421.

  WAJDA (Andrzej), Polish film-maker, 151.

  WALDEMAR (Detective Inspector), character in The Murder of the Goldfish, 222, 224.

  WALDSEEMÜLLER (Martin) (Hylacomilus), German cartographer, 384.

  WALL (Irwin), American historian, 410.

  WALL (Melzack), boxing champion, 453.

  WALLACE (Edgar), English novelist, 1875–1932, 103.

  WALTHER (Johann), German protestant composer, 1496–1570, 197.

  WALTHOUR, American racing cyclist of the early years of this century, 351.

  WAMBST (Georges), racing cyclist, 351.

  Wanderers, The, by G. Bretzlee, 114.

  WARBURTON (William), English prelate and man of letters, 1698–1779, 443.

  WARE (Robert), abbot of Westminster, 278.

  WARGRAVE (Lawrence), author of detective stories, 264.

  Warsaw (Poland), 266, 270, 284, 290.

  Washington (DC), 173, 298.

  Wasps, The, a pop group, 181, 182.

  Watchtower!, The, organ of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, 184.

  Waterproof Man, The, novel by Paul Winther, 68.

  WATTEAU (Antoine), French painter, 1684–1721, 151.

  WEAVER (William), 581.

  Weddell Sea, 178.

  Wedding March, The, 382.

  Wee Willie Winkie, film starring Shirley Temple, 380.

  WEEDS (Mrs), the Ericcsons’ charlady, 143, 144.

  WEHSAL, American chemist of German origin, 296–300.

  WEISS (Ehrich), see Beyssandre, 431.

  WELLES (Orson), American film-maker, 281, 284.

  Wenceslas, by Rotrou, 364.

  West Indies, 385, 386, 395.

  Weston’s, Paris shoeshop, 327.

  Wetland Allotments and Arable Farming in Picardy under Louis XV, by P. Marquiseaux (unfinished doctoral dissertation), 137.

  What is Man?, 467.

  Whatman, make of paper, 23, 53, 116, 119, 193.

  What’s On in London, 394.

  When Hens Grow Teeth …, caricature by Blanchard, 105.

  When I Was a Little Ballerina, by M. F. Vyshiskava, 410.

  Where have those two scoundrels got to?, decorated plate, 249.

  WHITE HORSE, Indian chief, 453.

  WHITE-MAN-RUNS-HIM, Indian chief, 453.

  White on White, painting by Malevich, 39.

  White Sea, 288.

 

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