Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec

  DUFRESNE, chess player, 330.

  DUFRESNY (Charles-Rivière), French playwright, 1684–1724, 364.

  DUKAS (Paul), French composer, 1865–1935, 165.

  DULLES (John Foster), US polotician, 1888–1959, 457.

  DULL KNIFE, Indian chief, 453.

  DUMAS (Alexandre, père), 473.

  DUMONT (François), French miniaturist, eighteenth century, 473.

  DUMONT D’URVILLE (Jules-Sébastian-César), French seafarer, 1790–1841, 449.

  Dumyât (Egypt), 113.

  Dundee (Scotland), 300.

  Dunkirk (Nord), 187, 198.

  DUNN (Herbert), 329.

  DUNN (Jeremy), 329.

  DURAND-TAILLEFER (Célestine), pen-name of Mme Trévins, 448.

  Dyspneic Frequencies in Fallot’s Tetralogy, by Dr B. Dinteville, 474.

  Eagle of the Instant, The, see Hokab el-Ouakt, 233.

  EARP (Wyatt), semi-legendary Western hero, 412.

  East India Company, 322.

  East Knoyle, an airport, 259.

  East Lancing (Michigan), 208.

  ECHARD (grandfather), 171, 214.

  ECHARD (Caroline), see Caroline Marquiseaux, 28, 324.

  ECHARD (Marcelin), library stack manager, 134–136, 179, 286, 456–457.

  ECHARD (Mme), 134–136, 179, 456.

  Ecole Centrale, 178.

  Ecole Nationale d’Administration, see Civil Service College, 296, 440.

  Ecole Normale Supérieure (Rue d’Ulm) 203, 206.

  Ecole Normale Supérieure (Sèvres), 18.

  Ecole Polytechnique, 21, 22, 23, 50, 296, 440.

  Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 6th section, 205.

  Ecole Pyrotechnique (sic), 23.

  Ecole Supérieure de chimie, 185.

  Ecrits de Sartre, Les, by Contat & Rybalka, 460.

  Edinburgh (Scotland), 383, 385.

  EDISON (Thomas Alva), American inventor, 1847–1931, 95.

  EDITIONS DU TONNEAU, French publishing house, 47, 48.

  Eger (Hungary), 154.

  EGER (Meglepett), Hungarian sculptor, 174.

  EGNATIUS, 289.

  Egypt, 93, 166, 194, 242, 248, 332, 372, 373, 443, 454.

  EHRENFELS (Christian, Baron von), Austrian philosopher, 1858–1932, 173.

  Eiffel Tower, 488.

  Eighteen Lectures on Industrial Society, by Raymond Aron, 241.

  Eimeo (Tahiti), 424, 425.

  EINSTEIN (Albert), American physicist, 1879–1955, 83, 457.

  Eisenühr (Austro-Hungary), 288.

  Elementary Treatise on Internal Pathology, by Béhier & Hardy, 326.

  ELIZABETH I, Queen of England, 1533–1603, 382.

  ELLIOTT (Harvey), see A. Flexner, 175.

  Elsinore (Denmark), 339.

  ELSTIR, a character in Proust, 281.

  Emperor’s Messenger, The, 371.

  Employers and Workers, 448.

  Ems (Germany), 83, 495.

  Ems Telegram, The, popular print, 495.

  Encounter, London literary and political weekly, 331.

  Encyclopedia Britannica, 99.

  Enfant au Toton, L’, by Chardin, 421.

  Enfant et les Sortilèges, L’, by Maurice Ravel (1925), 170.

  Engadiner, St Moritz hotel, 432.

  Enghien (Val d’Oise), 116, 354.

  England, 85, 145, 146, 148, 188, 333, 388, 425, 440, 445, 452.

  English Channel, 234.

  Ennis (Eire), 424, 425, 426.

  ENRICI, Italian racing cyclist, 350.

  Enterprise, American business journal, 283.

  Entertainment Guide, 251.

  Entführung aus dem Serail, Die, by W. A. Mozart, 175.

  ENTREBOIS (D’), Swiss pacemaker, 353.

  EPAPHOS, son of Io, 369.

  Epernay (Marne), 455.

  Epinal (Vosges), traditional print-making centre, 27, 157, 192, 495.

  Epiphyllum truncatum, 347.

  Epiphyllum paucifolium Macklin, 347.

  Erbil (Iraq), 425.

  Erebus, The, ship, 192.

  Eredringer frå en Reise i Skotland, by Plenge, 56.

  ERESISTRATES, Greek anatomist, third century BC, 478.

  ERFJORD (Gunnar), 263.

  ERICCSON (Erik), 141, 143.

  Ericsson (Ewa), 141, 142, 143.

  ERICSSON (Sven), 141–151, 316.

  Erindo, opera by J. S. Kusser, 21.

  ESBERI, Parisian art critic, 430.

  ESBIGNÉ (Jules-Servais d’), French lexicographer, 1840–1902, 289.

  Escurial, 394.

  ESPINGOLE (Barnabé-Vincent d’), French medievalist, 1732–1807, 437.

  ESTHER, character in Monpou’s Ahasverus, 454.

  Etampes (Essonne), 60.

  Etretat (Seine-Maritime), 365, 387.

  EUGENE OF SAVOY-CARIGNAN (Prince), Austrian soldier, 1663–1736, 87–89, 233.

  EUGÉNIE DE MONTIJO, wife of Napoleon III, 367.

  Europe, 44, 45, 54, 130, 204, 251, 258, 299, 353, 389, 424, 448, 466.

  Eurydice, painting by Franz Hutting, 484.

  EUSTACHE (Barthélémy), Italian anatomist, 1510–1574, 476, 478.

  Evening in an English Cottage, jigsaw, 192.

  Evening in Paris with Tom Lehrer, An, recording, 133.

  Everglades (Florida), 394.

  Evreux (Eure), Church of St Taurin, 85.

  Exercises in Medieval Diplomatic and Palaeography, by Toustin and Tassin, 437.

  Exeter (England), 141, 293.

  Exeter College, see Oxford.

  FABERGÉ (Carl), Russian Court jeweller, 1846–1920, 219, 402.

  FABRE (Saturnin), French actor, 1883–1961, 487.

  Faenza (Italy), 350.

  Fair Miller’s Maid, The, restaurant at the Universal Exhibition, 404.

  Fairyland, Hamburg music hall, 448.

  Falaise (Calvados), 13.

  FALCKENSKIOLD (Seneca Otto), Danish general, 1738–1803, 199.

  FALKENHAUSEN (Max), German composer, 1879–1947, 181.

  FALLOT (Etienne-Louis-Arthur), French doctor, 1850–1911, 474.

  FALSTAFF, a Shakespearian character, 165, 474.

  FALSTEN (William), American artist, 1873–1907, 133.

  Falun (Sweden), 471.

  Family Practitioner, The, 195.

  Far East, 180, 204, 249, 447.

  FARID ABU TALIF, an Egyptian trader, 332.

  FAROUK (Fârûq), King of Egypt, 1920–1965, 331.

  FAUCIGNY -LUCINGE (Princess of), 262.

  FAUCILLON (Armand), head of department, 485, 486, 487.

  FAURE (Félix), President of the French Republic, 1841–1899, 157.

  FAVART (Charles-Simon), French playwright, 1710–1792, 364.

  FAWCETT, Bartlebooth’s former chauffeur, 115, 368.

  FBI, 298.

  Fécamp (Seine-Maritime), 387.

  FERNANDEL, pseudonym of Fernand Contandin, French actor, 1903–1971, 43.

  FERRI (Mario), alias Ferri the Eyetie, 356.

  Feuille d’Avis de Fribourg, Swiss newspaper, 429.

  FEYDEAU (Georges), French playwright, 1862–1921, 255.

  FICHERO, EL, see Lino Margay, 357.

  Fiction International, 581.

  FIERABRAS, a legendary hero, 280.

  FIFI, a she-monkey, 286.

  Figaro, Le, French daily, 30.

  Filles du feu, Les, by Gérard de Nerval, 270.

  Film and Sound, 469.

  Film Daily, 469.

  Film Français, Le, 394.

  Film Technician, specialist journal, 469.

  Financial Times (London), 283.

  FINCK (Heinrich), German composer, 1445–1527, 368.

  Fine Art School (Ecole des Beaux-Arts), Paris, 60.

  Fingerprint, publishing series, 206.

  Fire Girls, The, see Trévins, 449.

  FIRMLAN (Charles-Joseph de), Italian statesman, 1718–1782, 88.

  First Meeting, 162.

  FISHER (Max) & FISHER (Alex), comic novelists, 103.
/>   Fishing Boats Coming in to a Dutch Beach, by F. H. Mans, 421.

  FITCHWINDER (Donald O.), American collector and patron, 429.

  FITZ-JAMES, master of The Erebus, 192, 229.

  Fiume, 156.

  FLANDERS (Gaëtan, known as Gate), producer, 262.

  Flashing Bulbs, make of pinball machine, 180.

  FLAUBERT (Gustave), French novelist, 1821–1880, 579.

  Flea market (Place d’Aligre), 393.

  Flea market (Vanves), 249.

  FLEURY, nineteenth-century lexicographer, 289.

  FLEURY (Henry), interior designer, 98–100, 316, 317, 340–342, 343, 447.

  FLEXNER (Arnold), American historian and novelist, 175.

  FLN, Algerian nationalist movement, 138.

  FLICHE, French historian, 241.

  FLIESS (Mr & Mrs), 238.

  FLIESS (Sean), 238.

  FLOQUET (Charles), French politician, 1828–1896, 105.

  Florence (Italy), 475.

  Florida, 75, 339, 411.

  Florida (Missouri), 466.

  FLOURENS (Pierre), French physiologist, 1794–1867, 99, 100, 343.

  FOD (Beatrice), a friend of Olivia Norvell, 468.

  FOGG (Phineas), character in novels by Jules Verne, 52.

  FOLLANINIO (Narcisse), poet, 280.

  Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), 116.

  FORBES (Stanhope Alexander), English painter, 15, 16, 324.

  Force of Destiny, The, melodrama, 256.

  Forli (Italy), 350.

  FORSTER (William), music publisher, 99, 100.

  Fort-Dauphin (Taolanaro) (Madagascar), 194.

  FORTHRIGHT (Lady), 15, 16, 324.

  Forum, art review, 34, 48.

  Fouïdra (Mali), 222.

  FOULEROT (Geneviève), 17, 124,

  FOULEROT – cont. 165, 188–189, 220, 221, 227, 467, 496.

  FOULEROT (Louis), 221.

  FOUREAU, owner of the flat on the third floor right, 13.

  FOURIER (Charles), French philosopher, 1772–1837, 478.

  FOUR-TIMES, Sitting Bull’s squaw, 453.

  Fax, The, ship, 192, 230.

  Fox and the Slork (sic), The, print by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 196.

  France, 10, 11, 21, 47, 50, 55, 75, 100, 119, 120, 138, 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 160, 173, 204, 210, 244, 250, 269, 272, 281, 312, 315, 324, 332, 343, 358, 363, 388, 405, 413, 419, 425, 449, 454, 456, 460, 473, 485.

  France-Dimanche, weekend newspaper, 212.

  France-Soir, Paris evening paper, 160.

  FRANCO BAHAMONDE (Francesco), Spanish dictator, 1892–1976, 207.

  FRANÇOIS (Claude), French singer, 1939–1978, 203.

  Franconia, 273.

  FRANKLIN (Sir John), English explorer, 1786–1847, 192.

  FREDERICKSBURG (Virginia), American pianist, 427.

  Free French Army (FFI), 47.

  Free Man, The, Dublin daily newspaper, 166.

  FREGOLI (Léopoldo), Italian actor, 1867–1936, 293.

  FREISCHÜTZ, Melchior Aristoteles’s dachsund, 283.

  French Cinematography, specialist journal, 469.

  Frenchman’s Companion in New York, The, 380.

  French National Standards for Watchmakers and Jeweller’s Items, 448.

  French Stage High and Low, The, lecture, 487.

  French Through Reading. Intermediate Level, schoolbook, 34.

  French Urologist at the Court of Louis XIV, A, by LeBran-Chastel, 479.

  FRENCH VEG, see Didi.

  FRÈRE (Jean-Jacques), 438, 439, 441.

  FRESNEL (Alice), 61, 127, 254, 255, 261.

  FRESNEL (Ghislain), 127, 255, 405.

  FRESNEL (Henri), 214, 254–261, 401.

  FREUD (Sigmund), Viennese psychoanalyst, 1865–1939, 579.

  Fribourg (Switzerland), 429.

  FRIBOURG & TREYER, English tobacconists, 469.

  FRIEDRICH-WILHELM II, King of Prussia, 1744–1847, 375.

  FRINGILLI (Cardinal), 283, 382.

  FROBISHER (Sir Martin), English seafarer, 1535–1594, 382.

  From Agony to Ecstasy, by Pierre Janet, 394.

  From Avvakum’s Raskolniki to the Insurrection of Stenka Razin, by Hubert Corneylius, 409.

  FRÜHINSOLIZ, Alsatian cooper, 404.

  Fudge, Indian tribe, 453.

  FUGGER (Hermann), German businessman, 166, 285, 343, 450, 496.

  Für Elise, by L. van Beethoven, 165.

  FÜRTWANGLER (Wilhelm), German conductor, 1886–1954, 234.

  GABIN (Jean), pseudonym of Jean Moncorgé, French actor, 1904–1975, 43.

  GABLE (Clark), 308.

  Gabon (W. Africa), 46.

  GAFFIOT, French lexicographer, 475.

  Gai Laboureur, Le, traditional tune, 471.

  GAINSBOROUGH (Thomas), English painter, 1727–1788, 421.

  Galahad Society, 93.

  GALEN (Claudius), Greek doctor of Pergamum, c.131–c.201, 233, 248, 258, 476, 478.

  Galerie Maillard (Paris), 34.

  Galilee (Israel), 31.

  GALLÉ (Emile), French glass-blower, 1846–1904, 319.

  Gallery 22, 39.

  GALLIMARD, French publishing house, 17, 48, 295.

  GANDHI (Mohandas Karamchand), Indian statesman, 1869–1948, 204.

  GANNEVAL (Pierre), 263.

  Gard, department of, 145, 146.

  Gardens of Heian-Kyô, Ankara nightclub, 310.

  Garigliano, Italian river, 5.

  GARIN DE GARLANDE, twelfth-century French writer, 437.

  Garoua (Cameroon), 76.

  GASTRIPHERES, 289.

  Gatseau (Oléron), 156.

  Gattières, 215, 480.

  GAUDI Y CORNET (Antonio), Spanish architect, 1852–1926, 494.

  GAULLE

  (Charles-André-Joseph-Marie de), French statesman, 1890–1970, 234.

  GAULTIER (Léon), seventeenth-century French engraver, 171.

  Gazette de Genève, 429.

  GELON THE SARMATIAN, 14.

  Geneva (Lake), 358.

  Geneva (Switzerland), 296, 322, 331, 419, 429, 441, 496.

  GENJI (Prince), protagonist of Murasaki Shikibu’s Genji-Monogatari, 103.

  Genoa (Italy), 85, 386.

  GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, French naturalist, 1772–1844, 238.

  GERARD (François, Baron), French painter, 1770–1837, 458.

  GERAUDEL, maker of cough pastilles, 327.

  GERBAULT (Henry), French artist, early twentieth century, 196.

  GERICAULT (Théodore), French painter, 1791–1824, 198.

  GERMAINE, Bartlebooth’s former laundress, 114, 269.

  Germany, 21, 140, 250, 299, 355, 489.

  GERONIMO, Indian chief, 453.

  Gerry Mulligan Far East Tour, record, 37.

  GERTRUDE, a hamster, 395n.

  GERTRUDE, former cook to Mme Moreau, 317, 452, 454, 496.

  Gertrude of Wyoming, by A. S. Jefferson, 6.

  GERVAISE, M. Colomb’s housekeeper, 170, 214.

  GESNER (Conrad), Swiss naturalist, 1516–1565, 289.

  Gestalt, xv, 189.

  Gestapo, 187.

  Geystliches Gesangbüchlein, by Johann Walther, 197.

  Ghardaïa (Algeria), 486.

  Ghent (Belgium), 410.

  GIBERT, bookseller in the Latin Quarter, 185.

  Gibraltar, 8, 31, 290, 373.

  GIGOUX (Jean), historical painter, 290.

  Gijón (Spain), 10, 52, 368.

  Gilbert & Blanzy-Poure, brand of pen, 243.

  Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), 382.

  Gilda, film by King Vidor, 83.

  Gilded Age, The, by Mark Twain, 467.

  GILET-BURNACHS (Florentin), 385–388.

  GILLOT (Claude), French painter, 1673–1722, 420.

  GIRARD (Jean-Louis), author of detective stories, 280, 283.

  Gironde, 404.

  Giselle, ballet by Adam, 438.

  Gishi-Wajin-Den, 284.

  Gitanes, brand of cigarettes, 194, 334.

  GJOERUP, Danish p
ublisher, 484n.

  Glasgow (Scotland), iv, 385.

  Glastonbury (England), 85.

  GLEICHEN (Count of), character in a story by Yorick, 36.

  GOBELINS, tapestry manufactory, 420.

  Gobi desert, 249.

  Goderville (Seine-Maritime), 187.

  Goethe-Institut (London), 142.

  GOGOLAK (S.), art critic, 35.

  GOLDBACH (Christian), German mathematician, 1690–1764, 372.

  Golden Cockerel, The, opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, after Pushkin, 325.

  GOLDSTEIN (Kurt), American philosopher of German origin, 1878–1965, 478.

  GOLL, German anatomist, 410.

  GOMÈS (Estevao), Portuguese seafarer, sixteenth century, 386.

  GOMOKU (Fujiwara), Japanese businessman, 284, 285.

  GONDERIC, King of the Burgundians, 85.

  Good Chums, calendar, 286.

  GORMAS (François), actor, character in G. Berger’s story, 158–161.

  GORMAS (Gatien), a revolutionary ancestor, character in G. Berger’s story, 160.

  GORMAS (Jean-Paul), his son, 160.

  GORMAS (Madame), his mother, 159.

  GOTLIB, painter and artist, 160.

  GOTTLIEB (Hans), Austrian six-dayer, 351.

  GOUGENHEIM (Marcel), known as Gougou, jazz musician, 363.

  GOURGUECHON (Bertrand), 324.

  GOUTTMAN, Gaspard Winckler’s master, 32–33, 244.

  Grail, legend of, 85.

  Granada (Spain), 31.

  Granbin, 259.

  GRANDAIR (Eleuthère de), 327.

  Grand Larousse Universel du XIXe siècle, encyclopaedia, 331.

  Grand Prix of the Arc de Triomphe, by Paul Colin. 98.

  Grand Street, 581.

  GRANPRE (Marquis de), 327.

  GRASSIN (Robert, alias Toto), racing cyclist, 351.

  GRATIOLET (Family), 74–79, 155, 398.

  GRATIOLET (Arlette, née Criolat), 77, 274.

  GRATIOLET (Emile), 74, 75, 77, 78, 171, 272, 405, 470, 471.

  GRATIOLET (Ferdinand), 74, 75–78, 156, 272, 273.

  GRATIOLET (France, née Lidron), 77, 273.

  GRATIOLET (François), 75, 77, 155, 156, 273, 286, 301, 303, 401, 410, 470, 472.

  GRATIOLET (Gérard), 74, 75, 77, 78, 156, 272.

  GRATIOLET (Germaine, née Jourdain), 77.

  GRATIOLET (Hélène), see Brodin, 74, 75, 77, 273, 286, 302.

  GRATIOLET (Henri), 77, 272.

  GRATIOLET (Isabelle), 28, 58, 77, 195, 271, 274, 367, 395–397, 496.

  GRATIOLET (Jeanne, née Moulin), 77, 471.

  GRATIOLET (Juste), 74, 77, 156, 217, 273, 404, 470, 471.

  GRATIOLET (Louis), son of Gérard, 77, 156, 272, 273.

  GRATIOLET (Louis), son of Juste, 77.

  GRATIOLET (Marc), 77, 78, 156, 273.

  GRATIOLET (Marie, née Laurent), 77.

  GRATIOLET (Marthe, née Lehameau), 77, 156, 273, 301, 472.