Barbados, 449.
BARBENOIRE, political agitator, 356.
BARBOSA-MACHADO (Diego), Portuguese man of letters, 1682–1770, 172.
Barcelona (Spain), 371, 394.
Barents Sea, 55.
Bari (Italy), 471.
Bar-le-Duc (Meuse), 125.
BARNAVAUX (Jules), 280.
Baroness, The, Berthe Danglars’s nickname, 403.
BARRERE, cyclist, 351, 352.
BARRETT, American gangster, 357.
BARRETT (Henry), 183.
BART (Jean), French sailor 1650–1702, 198
BARTHOLDI (Frédéric-Auguste), French sculptor, 1834–1904, 470.
BARTLEBOOTH (James Aloysius), 390.
BARTLEBOOTH (Jonathan), 94, 390.
BARTLEBOOTH (Percival), 4, 5, 10, 17, 20–23, 26–28, 33–35, 40, 51–58, 60, 65, 66, 94, 95, 113–119, 125–127, 158, 169, 191–193, 214, 219, 227, 228, 242, 245, 246, 269, 331–340, 344–347, 368, 388–393, 405, 420, 422, 432–435, 451, 494–497.
BARTLEBOOTH (Priscilla, née Sherwood), 94, 115, 390, 420.
BARTON (F.), English explorer, 389.
Basel (Switzerland), 288, 477, 480.
Bastille, prison, 199, 256, 400.
Baton Rouge (Louisiana), 411.
BAUCIS (See PHILEMON), 12, 437.
BAUCIS, glassworks, 51.
BAUDELAIRE (Charles), French poet, 1821–1867, 292.
Baugé (Maine-et-Loire), 84.
BAUMGARTEN (C. F.), German musician, 100.
BAYARD (Pierre du Terrail, seigneur de), 1475–1524, 198.
Bay of Bengal, 54.
Bay of Biscay, 52.
Bayonne, 85, 154.
BAYSIUS, 289.
Bazooka affair, 139.
BBC, 64, 273.
BEARDSLEY (Aubrey Vincent), English artist and writer, 1872–1898, 277.
Beasts of the Night, monumental sculpture by Franz Hutting, 34.
Beauce, French plain, 356.
BEAUFORT (François de Bourbon-Vendôme, Duke of), 1616–1669, 362.
BEAUFOUR (Duchess of), 399.
Beaugency, 85, 160.
BEAUMONT (Countess Adelaïde de), mother of Fernand, 19, 146, 147, 366.
BEAUMONT (Elizabeth Natasha Victorine Marie de, later married name Breidel), 19, 142, 143, 145–151, 366.
BEAUMONT (Fernand de), French archaeologist, 1876–1935, 8–10, 19, 52, 145, 151, 367.
BEAUMONT (Véra de, née Orlova), 4, 6, 17, 127, 137–139, 143, 175, 218, 316, 355, 365, 367, 371, 405, 459, 496, 497, 499.
Beaune (Côte d’Or), 277.
Beauty and the Beast, film by René Clément and Jean Cocteau (1946), 349.
Beauvais (Oise), 270, 420.
BECAUD (Gilbert), pseudonym of François Silly, French folk singer, 158, 228.
BECCARIA (Cesare Bonesana, marquis of), Italian jurist, 1738–1794, 88, 91, 94.
BECQUERLOUX (René), 439.
BEDE (The Venerable, Saint), Anglo-Saxon scholar and historian, 673–735, 85.
BEETHOVEN (Ludwig van), German composer, 1770–1827, 184, 295, 360.
BEHIER (Louis-Jules), French doctor, 1813–1876, 326.
Beirut (Lebanon), 38, 156, 449.
Beiträge zur feineren Anatomie des menschlichen Rückenmarks, by Goll, 410.
BELAÏ AL-ROUMI, Arabic name of Pelayo, 9.
Belgium, 425, 448.
Belgrade, 87.
Bel Indifférent, Le, film by J. Demy, after Cocteau, 465.
BELLE, a mare, 343.
Belle Alouette, La, restaurant, 254.
“Belle de May”, pseudonym of Olivier-Jérôme Nicolin, drag queen, 293.
BELLERVAL (Graf von), 280.
Belles de Nuit, film by René Clair, 164.
BELLETTO (René), 579.
BELLINI (Lorenzo), Florentine anatomist, 1643–1704, 475, 478.
BELLMER (Hans), German engraver, 23, 231, 579.
BELLOS (A.), 581.
BELLOS (David), iii, iv, 581.
BELMONDO (Jean-Paul), French film star, 64.
BELT (Lord Vivian), 469.
BEMBO (Bonifacio), Italian miniaturist, fifteenth century, 348.
BENABOU (Marcel), 263.
BENEDETTI (Vincent), French diplomat, 1817–1900, 495.
BENNETT (James Gordon), American journalist, 1795–1872, 289.
BENSERADE (Isaac de), French poet, c.1613–1691, 280.
BEPPO, Italian violinist of the eighteenth century, 473.
BERANGER (Pierre-Jean de), French poet, 1780–1857, 198.
BEREAUX (Emile), 156.
BEREAUX (Jaques), 156.
BEREAUX (Marie), wife of Juste Gratiolet, 1852–1888, 77, 156.
BERG (Alban), Austrian composer, 1883–1935, 499.
Bergen (Norway), 56, 471.
BERGER (Charles), 218, 227, 291–295, 414, 488.
BERGER (Gilbert), 157–158, 195, 228, 295, 301, 496.
BERGER (Lise), 292, 295, 414, 495.
BERGERAC (Lord O’Moffony), an eccentric English poet, 280.
BERGHAUS, 495.
BERGOTTE, a French writer, character in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu, 281.
BERIA (Lavrenti Pavlovich), Soviet politician, 1899–1953, 457.
Berlin (Germany), 19, 171, 330, 449, 499.
BERLINGUE (Countess of), 279.
BERLOUX, air-raid warden, 59, 303.
BERMA, La, an actress in Proust, 281.
BERMAN (Irving T.), American engineer, 298.
BERNADOTTE (Count), Swedish UN mediator, 457.
BERNANOS (Georges), French novelist, 1888–1948, 437.
Bernard, chain of meat butchers, 327.
BERNARD (Claude), French physiologist, 1813–1878, 464.
Bernay (Eure), 250.
BERNSTEIN (Henry), French playwright, 1876–1953, 242.
BEROALDE DE VERVILLE (François) French writer, 1558–1612, 271.
Beromünster (Germany), 471.
BERRY (Charles-Ferdinand, Duc de), 1778–1820, 139, 383.
BERRY (Jules), stage name of Jules Paufichet, French actor, 1889–1951, 487.
Berry (France), 74, 272, 471.
BERTIN (François), the elder, French journalist, 1766–1841, 281.
BERYL, Princess, 36.
BERZELIUS (Ernst), 90–94.
Besançon (Doubs), 198, 271.
BESCHERELLE, the elder, French lexicographer, 289.
BESNARD (Marie), 301.
Bête Noire, La, avant-garde review, 406.
Bétharram caves (Pyrénées-Orientales), 427, 428.
Bethlehem (Israel), 255, 317.
BEYSSANDRE (Charles-Albert), art critic, 39, 66, 390, 422, 429–435.
Bibliografica urologica, by Paolo Ceneri, 480.
Bibliotheca Lusitana, 172.
Bibliothèque de l’Opéra, 234–236.
Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), 140.
BIDOU (D.), painter, 474.
BIDREM (International Development Bank for Energy and Mining Resources), 296, 299.
BIENENFELD (Ela), 581.
BIG MIKE, Indian chief, 453.
BIG MOUTH, Sioux chief, 453.
BINDA (Alfredo), Italian racing cyclist, 350.
Birds, The, film by Alfred Hitchcock, 362.
Birmingham (England), 84.
BIRNBAUM (Laszlo), conductor, 427.
BISHOP (Jeremy), 381–382, 394.
BISMARCK, 495.
BISSEROT (Pierre), pacemaker, 353.
Bitter Victory, by René Hardy, 295.
BLACK BEAVER, Indian chief, 453.
Black Sea, 54.
BLANCARD (Etienne), 478.
BLANCARD (Jacques-Emile), French caricaturist, 105.
BLANCHET (Roland), 401–403.
Blawick (Florida), 339.
BLOCK (Pierre), French musician, 331.
BLONDINE, character in Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail, 175.
Blue Boy, The, by Thomas Gainsborough, 421.
Bohème, La, opera by Puccini, 23
4.
BÖHM (Karl), conductor, 235.
Boire un petit coup c’est agréable, 414.
BOISSY (Louis de), French playwright, 1694–1758, 364.
Boka-Kotorska (Yugoslavia), 246.
BOLIVAR (Simon-José-Antonio), South American general, 1783–1830, 34.
Bolivia, 151.
Bologna (Italy), 289, 350, 371, 475, 476, 477.
BOMBASTINUS, nickname of Lazare Meysonnier, 475.
Bombay (India), 54, 310, 409.
BONACIEUX (Constance), character in The Three Musketeers by A. Dumas, 158.
BONAPARTE (Napoleon), see Napoleon I, 39.
BONIFACE, a donkey, 246.
BONNAT (Léon), French painter, 1833–1922, 16.
BONNER (A.), 581.
BONNETERRE (François-Marie), Canadian seaman, c.1787–?1830, 289.
Bon Petit Diable, Le, 323.
Bonshommes Guillaume, mechanical doll display, 404.
Booz endormi, poem by Victor Hugo, 271.
BORBEILLE, a doctor, character in G. Berger’s story, 160.
BORBEILLE (Isabella), his daughter, character in G. Berger’s story, 160.
Bordeaux (Gironde), 154, 198, 199, 290, 404, 454.
BORGES (Jorge Luis), 579.
BORIET-TORY (J.), a Swiss surgeon, 280, 283.
Boris Godunov, opera by Mussorgsky, 401.
BORIS THE BARITONE, a mythical thief, 401.
Borneo, 54, 212.
BOROTRA (Jean), tennis champion, 196.
Borrelly, Joyce and Kahane, whisky distillers, 300.
BOSCH (Hieronymus van Acken), Flemish painter, 1450–1516, 18.
BOSSEUR (J.), art critic, 34.
BOSSIS (Héléna), French actress, 487.
BOSSIUS, 289.
BOSSUET (Jacques-Bénigne), French writer, 1626–1704, 198.
Boston (Massachussetts), 82, 86, 87, 94.
BOTTECCHIA (Ottavio), Italian cycling champion, 1894–1927, 350.
BOTTICELLI (Sandro di Mariano Felipepi), Italian painter, 1445–1510, 152.
BOUBAKER, 266–269.
BOUGRET (Inspector), a character in works by Marcel Gotlib, 160.
BOUILLET (Marie-Nicolas), French lexicographer, 1798–1864, 289.
BOUISE (Jean), French actor, 64.
Bou-Jeloud (Morocco), 245.
BOULANGER (Georges), French general, 1837–1891, 105.
BOULEZ (Pierre), French conductor, 156.
BOULLE (Pierre), French writer, 394.
Bounty Islands, 179.
Bourg-Baudoin, 348.
Bourg d’Oisans (Isère), 350.
Bourges (Cher), 198.
Bourgueil (Indre-et-Loire), 154.
BOURVIL, pseudonym of André Raimbourg, French comedian, 1917–1970, 64.
BOUVARD, see Ratinet.
Bovril, 444.
BOWMAN (William), English anatomist, 476, 480.
BOX (Patrick Oliver), English explorer, 409.
Boxers, 67.
BOYER, songwriter, 414.
Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide, 199.
BRAUN (Eva), 456.
BRAUN (Wernher von), 297.
Brazil, 258.
Bregenzer Kammerorchester, 427.
BREIDEL (Anne), 18, 20, 28, 149, 150, 175, 176–179, 227, 366, 367, 452, 497.
BREIDEL (Armand), 367.
BREIDEL (Béatrice), 18, 20, 28, 150, 175, 176, 227, 366, 367, 452, 497.
BREIDEL (Elizabeth, née de Beaumont), see Beaumont, 20, 138, 139–150.
BREIDEL (François), 20, 138, 139, 148, 149, 366.
BREIDEL (parents), 138.
Breidel’s Tower, 179.
BREITENGASSER, sixteenth-century German Composer, 368.
BRETZLEE (George), American novelist, 114.
Briançon (Hautes-Alpes), 350.
BRICE (Vera), 581.
Bridge over the River Kwaï, The, by Pierre Boulle, 221, 394.
BRIDGETT (Mrs), English hotelkeeper, 443.
Brief History of the Origins and Progress of Engraving, Woodcuts and Intaglio, by Humbert (1752), 171.
BRINON (Fernand de), French politician, 1885–1947, 273.
Brisbane (Australia), 382.
BRISSON (Mathieu-Jacques), French naturalist, 1723–1806, 289.
Britannicus, tragedy by Jean Racine, 303.
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 383.
British Museum, 144, 347.
Brittany, 481, 485.
Brive (Corrèze), 149.
BROD (M.), 581.
BRODIN (Antoine), 75, 77, 410.
BRODIN (Hélène, née Gratiolet), 128, 410–413.
BRØNDAL (Viggo), Danish linguist, 110.
Bros d’Or, Acapulco nightclub, 449.
Brouwershaven (Holland), 52, 55.
BROWN (Jim), see Guido Mandetta, 91.
BROWNE (Sir Thomas), English writer, 1605–1682, 289.
Bruges (Belgium), 383, 394.
BRUGNON (Jacques), French tennis star, 196.
BRUNIER, French pursuit cyclist, 351, 352.
Brussels (Belgium), 34, 139, 171, 188.
Buchenwald, 120, 188.
BUCKLEY, (Silas), slave trader, 322.
BUDOEUS, 289.
Buenos Aires (Argentina), 356.
Building manager, see Romanet.
Bulletin de l’Institut de Linguistique de Louvain, 263.
Bulletin Signalétique du CNRS, 215, 269.
BUNIN (Ivan Alekseevich), Russian novelist, 1870–1953, 367.
BUÑUEL (Luis), 465.
Burgundy, 155.
Burlington Magazine, The, 174.
BURNACHS (Marcel-Emile), 238.
BUTOR (Michel), French novelist, 295, 579.
Buzançais (Indre), 343.
BYRON (George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron, called Lord), English poet, 1788–1824, 35.
CABET (Etienne), French socialist, 1788–1856, 464.
CABOT (Jean) (Giovanni Caboto), Italian seafarer, c.1450–1498, 386.
CABRAL (Gonsalvo Velho), Portuguese seafarer, fifteenth century, 386.
CABRAL (Dom Pedro Alvarez), Portuguese seafarer, c.1460–1526, 386.
CADIGNAN (Marc-Antoine Cadenet, seigneur of), French historian, 1595–1637, 49.
Cadouin (Dordogne), 85.
Caduceus, French medical journal, 195.
Caen (Calvados), 13, 198, 199, 474.
Caesarea (Israel), 85.
Café Laurent, eighteenth-century Parisian literary café, 87.
Cairo (Egypt), 39, 244, 248.
Cahors (Lot), 154.
CALDER (Alexander), Franco-American artist, 301.
Caledonian Society, 385.
CALLAS (Maria), pseudonym of Maria Kalogeropoulos, international operatic singer, 1923–1977, 234.
Calvi (Corsica), 280.
CALVINO (Italo), 280, 579.
CAMBACERES (Jean-Jacques Régis de), Duke of Parma, French politician, 1753–1824, 198.
CAMBINI (Giuseppe), Italian composer, 1740–1817, 100.
CAMELOT (Kex), pseudonym of A. Flexner, 175.
Caméra, cinema, 465.
Cameroon (W. Africa), 46, 74, 75, 76.
CAMOËNS (Luis de), Portuguese poet, ?1524–1580, 172.
CAMPEN (Lucien), known as Monsieur Lulu, 141.
Camus Bay (Eire), 52.
Canada (Hotel), 31.
Canary Islands, 394.
Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), 165, 250.
Canton (China), 55.
CAPACELLI (François Albergati), Italian playwright, 289.
Cape Cod, 113.
Cape Horn, 178.
Cape Sâo Vicente (Portugal), 332.
Capitaine Fracasse, Le, New York restaurant, 260.
CAPPIELLO (Leonetto), French poster artist, 1875–1942, 61.
Carcassonne, 85.
Card Players, painting by Cézanne, 340.
Carennac (Lot), 289.
Caribbean’s, Barbados nightclub, 449.
CARLOS, see Aurelio Lopez,
307.
CARMONTELLE, pseudonym of Louis Carrogis, French painter, 1717–1806, 321.
Caroline Islands, 52.
CARPACCIO (Vittore), Venetian painter, c.l460–c.l526, 455.
CARPENTIER (Georges), French boxer, 83.
CARROLL (Lewis), pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English mathematician and writer, 1832–1898, 381.
Carte particulière de la mer méditerranée …, by François Ollive, 329.
Carter, The, 422.
Carthage airport, 267.
CARUSO (Enrico), Neapolitan tenor, 1873–1921, 259.
CASAUBON (Isaac), French scholar, 1559–1614, 289.
CASSANDRE, pseudonym of Adolphe Mouron, French poster artist, 98.
CASTELFRANCO (Angelina di), an Italian actress, character in G. Berger’s story, 160, 229.
Caste Systems in the Punjab …, by Adrien Jérôme, 204.
Cat, The, character in A. Flexner’s novel, The Seventh Crack Shot of Saratoga, 175.
Catalaunian Fields, 85, 230.
Cauri System and African Banking, The, article by D. Landes, 48.
Cavalier’s, Stockholm cabaret, 449.
Celebes, 54, 250.
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The, by Mark Twain, 467.
Celestial Globe, pavilion at the Universal Exhibition, 404.
CENERI (Paolo), Italian bibliographer, 476–480.
Cent-Jours, Les, unfinished novel by A. de Routisie, 289.
Central Library of the XVIIIth arrondissement, 456.
CERVANTES Y SAAVEDRA (Miguel de), Spanish writer, 1547–1616, 180.
C’est à l’amour auquel je pense, 460.
C’est si beau, yacht, 450.
Ceuta (Spain), 8, 9, 379.
Cévennes, 149, 257.
Ceylon, see Sri Lanka, 54, 309.
CEZANNE (Paul), French painter, 1839–1906, 340, 430.
Chalindrey (Haute-Marne), 410.
Chambéry (Savoie), 274.
Chambord, château (Loir-et-Cher), 428.
Champagne, 272, 290, 455.
CHAMPIGNY (Flora), see Flora Albin, 168–170, 401.
Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), 208.
CHAMPION DE CHAMBONNIERES (Jacques), French harpsichordist, 1601–1672, 245.
CHAMPOLLION (Jean-François), decipherer of hieroglyphics, 1790–1832, 280.
CHAMPSAUR (Félicien), French novelist, 103.
Champs-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), 427.
CHANDLER (Raymond Thornton), American novelist, 1888–1959, 414.
CHANEL (Coco), Parisian designer, 97.
Channel Islands (UK), 146.
Chantilly (Seine-et-Oise), 421.
CHAPELLE, pseudonym of Claude-Emmanuel Lhuillier, French poet, 1626–1686, 290.
Chapelle-Lauzin, 84.
CHAPLIN (Charles), pseudonym of Charles Spencer, English actor, 1889–1977, 334.
Characteristica universalis, by Leibniz, 263.
CHARDIN (Jean), French traveller, 1643–1713, 175.
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