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by Jean d'Ormesson

Ch’oe Ch’aewon, 367

  Christ, see Jesus Christ

  Cimarosa, Domenico, 351

  Circassians, 285

  Circe, 350

  City, the, passim and particularly:

  founding, prosperity, golden age, 15, 16, 17–19, 31, 34, 103, 246

  as center for overland trade, 34, 35–6, 38–9

  harbor, 17, 21–2, 34, 39, 249–50

  capture of, 25–6, 31

  decadence, misery, 21, 31, 32, 34, 43, 153, 162

  renaissance and apogee, 246–7, 249, 307–8, 311

  as capital, administrative center, 247, 311–12

  Ciudad Real, 299

  Claudel, Paul, 134, 143, 291

  Clausewitz, Karl von, 206

  Clavijo, Ruy González de, 351

  Cleopatra, 225, 273

  Clitarchus, 349

  Cnidus peninsula, 346

  Cocteau, Jean, 305

  Codreanu, Corneliu Zelea, 370

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 329

  Cologne, 107

  Comans, 187, 285

  Comazon, 279

  Comnena, Anna, 349

  Como, 107, 199, 345

  Concini, Concino (maréchal d’Ancre), 226–7

  Confucius, 145, 148, 257

  Constantine II, Emperor, 342, 362

  Constantine (Porphyrogenete), 336–7

  Constantinople, 336, 347

  Coomaraswamy, A., 363

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 171

  Córdoba, 299

  Corelli, Arcangelo, 352

  Corinth, 284

  Corneille, Pierre, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31

  Coromandel Coast, 67

  Corot, Camille, 344

  Corsica, 303, 310, 366

  Corvin, Mathias, 338

  Cossacks, 285

  Couchoud, 326

  Crete, 102, 186, 199, 284, 303

  Crussol d’Uzès family, 227

  Ctesiphon, 79, 105, 303, 305, 320, 333, 335

  Cuchulain monastery, 280

  Cumaea, 199

  Custine, Marquis de, 359

  Cyclades Islands, 278

  Cyprus, 7, 49, 102, 202, 203, 215, 217, 219, 222, 229, 233–4, 267, 268, 275–80, 283, 284

  Cyrene, 299

  Dalmatia, 283, 284, 286, 299

  Damascus, 63, 134, 307, 351

  Dante Alighieri, 85, 138–9, 294, 295, 344, 352–3, 356, 367

  Danube River, 61, 189, 284, 304, 305, 310

  Daudet, Alphonse, 226

  Daudet, Léon, 281

  David-Neel, Alexandra, 363

  Debussy, Claude, 352

  Defoe, Daniel, 171

  Delaroche, Paul, 22

  Delbos, Victor, 362

  Delbrück, Hans, 206

  della Robbia, Luca, 172

  Delille, Abbé Jacques, 14

  Delos, 302

  Delphi, 102

  Demetrios de Jamblée, 123

  Demiéville, Paul, 363

  Descartes, René, 117, 258, 366

  Dickens, Charles, 171

  Diderot, Denis, 365

  Dingizik, 208–12, 218

  Dion, see Justus Dion

  Dionysus, 363

  Djagatai, 285

  Dnieper River, 317

  Dodgson, Charles (Lewis Carroll), 171

  Dolomites, 344, 355

  Domecq, Bustos, 362

  Donatello (Donato di Betto Bardi), 342

  Don Juan, 119

  Don River, 187, 317, 320

  Dresden, 117, 252, 342

  Drôme River, 348

  Dryden, John, 359–60

  Du Camp, Maxine, 143

  Ducasse, Isidore, see Lautréamont

  Du Guesclin, see Guesclin, Bertrand du

  Dumas, Alexandre, 22, 92, 148

  Dupont, Pierre, 6

  Dura-Europos, 107, 142, 303

  Dürer, Albrecht, 305

  Duyvendak, J. J. L., 363

  Dyushambe, 359

  Dzungaria, 268

  Edessa, 108, 141, 303, 333

  Edith the swan-necked (mistress of Harold, King of England), 347

  Egypt, 7, 37, 204, 249, 302, 311

  Eisenstein, Sergei, 175

  Einstein, Albert, 174

  Elam, 356

  Eliot, T. S., 14

  Elizabeth I (Queen of England), 273

  Elizabeth of Bohemia, Princess, 117

  Ellis, Havelock, 362

  Emden, Max Van, 364

  Emesa, 108, 141

  Émile (character in Rousseau), 204

  Emmerich, Emma Katharina, 346

  Ems, Rudolf von, 350

  Engels, Friedrich, 106

  England, 17, 63, 271

  Enjolras (character in Hugo), 172

  Entommeures, Prince of the, 285

  Ephesus, 101, 335, 346

  Epirus, 245

  Eritrea, 199

  Ertogrul, 188

  Erythrean Sea, 318

  Eschenbach, Ulrich von, 350

  Este, Isabelle d’, 273

  Esther, 26

  Estienne, Henri, 271

  Estienne, Robert, 28

  Esenin, Sergei Alexandrovich, 14

  Étiemble, 363

  Etruscans, 7

  Euphrates River, 142, 273, 275, 276, 284, 303, 311

  Evcharisto, 38, 153, 156, 183, 333

  Ezion-geber, 302

  Fabrician, 79–84, 87–90, 95, 106, 109, 114, 124, 145, 148, 157, 162, 190, 197, 203, 219, 317

  Famagusta, 49, 51, 65, 66, 188, 202, 219, 277, 321, 333

  Faure, P., 360, 368–9

  Federovsky, Igor, 361

  Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe-, 172

  Feodorovna, Alexandra (Empress of Russia), 370

  Fergama, 285

  Fernandez, Macedonio, 362, 366

  Ferrière, Alexandre de la, 135

  Fethiya, see Telmessos

  Feuerbach, Ludwig, 248

  Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 259

  Ficino, Marsilio, 124

  Fiesole, 226

  Finale Ligure, 348

  Firdussi, 349–50

  Flaubert, Gustave, 295, 367

  Fleuriot, Zénaïde, 172

  Florence, 115, 123–4, 287–8, 305

  Focillon, Henri, 252, 361

  Ford, Henry, 174

  Foscari, Francesco, 226

  Foucauld, Charles de, 148

  Foucault, Michel, 248

  Fouquet, Marie-Madeleine, 227

  Fouquet, Jean, 338

  Fouquet, Nicolas, 227–8

  France, 171, 172

  France, Anatole, 225–6, 263

  Francesca, Piero della, see Piero della Francesca

  Francis of Assisi, Saint, 261

  Francis I (King of France), 214

  Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Emperor, 96, 334

  Freud, Sigmund, 94, 354, 362

  Fujikake, Shizuya, 367

  Füseli, 305

  Futo-no-Yasumaro, 367

  Gadaric, 187

  Galigaï, Leonora, 226

  Gance, Abel, 175

  Gandolphus, 47, 50, 51, 58, 60, 64, 65–74, 79, 80–90, 92, 94, 107, 114, 152, 153, 165, 177, 190, 191, 197, 201, 202, 203, 310, 355, 356, 362

  Ganelon, 351

  Ganges River, 143, 303, 304

  Garcia, Pauline Viardot-, 92

  Gard River, 348

  Garnier, Robert, 24

  Garrett, Robert, 363

  Gattamelata (Erasmo di Narni), 342

  Gaulle, Gen. Charles de, 363

  Gauls, 225, 297

  Gautier, Théophile, 37, 157

  Gavroche (character in Hugo), 172

  Gazul, Clara, 334

  Gedrosia, 155, 303

  Geiseric (King of the Vandals), 297

  Genghis Khan, 174, 232

  Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité du Crest de Saint Aubin, Comtesse de, 172

  Genoa, 120

  George, Saint, 350

  Géricault, Théodore, 365

  Germany, 37, 63, 171, 231

  Ghéon, Henri, 349


  Gibbon, Edward, 359

  Gibraltar, 299

  Gide, André, 261, 263

  Gildore, Cape, 34, 35, 37, 156, 173, 178, 184, 202, 208, 239, 276, 335

  Giraudoux, Jean, 291

  Glaucon, 204

  Glendalough monastery, 280

  Gobineau, Joseph Arthur, Comte de, 314

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 203, 234, 252, 295, 351–2

  Gozzoli, Benozzo, 287–8

  Gracq, Julien, 367

  Grado, 287

  Granada, 299, 335

  Greece, 7, 57, 97, 155–6, 242, 249, 251, 258, 284

  Greenland, 67

  Gregory VII, Saint, Pope, 328, 341, 343–4, 348

  Grenier, Jean, 363

  Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 12, 95, 171

  Grock, A. W., 172, 364

  Grotius (Hugo de Groot), 258

  Grousset, René, 359, 361, 369

  Grüneveld, Professor von, 140

  Guadalajara, 299, 304

  Gubbio, 294, 344

  Guesclin, Bertrand du, 225

  Guignebert, Charles, 5

  Guiscard, Robert, 297

  Gurdjieff, 296

  Hadrian VII (Archpatriarch), 292–6, 298, 303, 310, 311, 320–1, 323–8, 330, 334–6, 367

  Hadrian, Emperor, 225, 340

  Hahn, Reynaldo, 352

  Halicarnassus, 302, 346

  Hammurabi, 174

  Handel, George Frederick, 352

  Hannibal, 315

  Harar, 134

  Hardy, Alexandre, 351

  Harold (King of England), 347

  Hart, Liddell, 206

  Hartlieb, Johannes, 350

  Hastings, 347

  Hegel, Friedrich, 259, 282, 335

  Hegesippus, Prince, 285

  Heidegger, Martin, 257, 280

  Heine, Heinrich, 352

  Helen, 76–90, 91–2, 94–7, 99, 100, 107, 113, 114, 116, 124–25, 145, 148, 162, 167–70, 171, 173, 183, 184, 190, 194, 201–3, 205, 212, 220, 233, 235, 268, 272, 288, 295, 306, 319, 329, 335, 340, 350, 355, 370

  Heloise (wife of Abelard), 26, 117

  Heloise (daughter of Nephaot, wife of Arsaphes), 22–3, 24, 25–31, 39, 42, 94, 124

  Herbolzheim, Berthold von, 350

  Hermenides, 16, 35, 103, 109, 148, 257–8, 295, 307

  Hero, 26

  Herod Antipas (Tetrarch of Galilee), 225

  Heruli, 297

  Himalaya Mountains, 144

  Hindu Kush Mountains, 364

  Hinstin, M., 117

  Hitler, Adolf, 214, 232, 367

  Hiung-Nus, 187, 189

  Hobbits, 38

  Hohenschwangau, castle of, 346

  Holbein, Hans, 305

  Ho K’iu-ping, 299, 367

  Hondo, 300

  Horeb, 324

  Hubert-Michel, Michel, 361

  Hugo, Victor, 85, 166, 172, 350, 364

  Huns, 187

  Hunyadi, Jean, 284

  Hu-Wuans, 187, 189

  Hvar, island of, 346

  Hvotan, 12

  Hwang Ho River, 299, 348

  Hyphasis, 303

  Hyrcania, 155

  ibn-Batuta, 134, 330

  ibn-Khaldun, 134

  Ibos, 317

  Ikhnaton, 248, 294

  Illyria, 362

  Illysos River, 202

  Imperia (courtesan), 120–1

  Impruneta, 294

  India, 7, 69, 122, 134, 144, 147, 186, 200, 204, 229, 237, 252, 257, 276, 325, 351

  Indonesia, 334

  Indus River, 142, 143, 145, 303, 304, 324

  Ingeburgh, Empress, 4, 47–9, 61–4, 65–6, 68, 74, 124, 152, 153

  Ireland, 67

  Irene, Empress, 4, 54, 64, 153, 184

  Isfahan, 142, 143, 144, 145, 149, 318, 351

  Isidore, 5, 106, 109, 133, 151, 157–8, 161, 162, 166, 167, 177, 180, 184, 185, 194, 201, 203, 205, 209–12, 214, 218, 219, 235, 248, 261–3, 265, 288, 295, 334, 335, 339, 355, 363, 365

  Italy, 171, 231

  Ivoi, Paul d’, 148

  Izanagi (god), 300

  Jammes, Francis, 261

  Japan and the Japanese, 123, 131, 268, 300–1, 304, 306, 333, 334

  Jaxartes River, 196

  Jayavarman VII, 323

  Jerusalem, 284, 302, 307

  Jester I, 158, 159, 161, 168–72, 174, 176, 180, 183, 184, 191, 235, 275, 288, 306

  Jester II–VII, 171–2, 192–4, 197, 203, 205, 207, 209–12, 214, 218–19, 224–5, 228–35, 247, 272, 274, 275, 297, 306, 321

  Jester VIII–IX, 306, 355

  Jesus Christ, 134, 135, 225, 326, 363

  Jimmu Tenno (Emperor of Japan), 300

  Joan, Pope, 326

  Joan of Arc, Saint, 225, 326, 363

  John, Prester, 326

  John, Saint (apostle), 136

  Jones, E. T., 94

  Jornandez, 210

  Judas Iscariot, 225, 351

  Julian the Apostate, Emperor, 174, 363

  Julius II, della Rovere, Pope, 124, 174, 348

  Jung, Carl Gustav, 370

  Justinian, Emperor, 26, 174, 352

  Justus Dion, 4, 8, 11, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 56, 67, 69, 70, 73–4, 79, 83, 88, 94, 96, 97, 111, 133, 168, 170, 180, 182, 194, 209, 210, 216, 224, 241, 245, 248, 251, 256–7, 260–1, 263–6, 314, 317, 320, 330–2, 337, 338, 342–3, 345–6, 354, 356, 361, 364, 365, 366, 368, 369

  Juvenal, Bishop, 346

  Kabulistan, 285

  Kadesh, 356

  Kaisari, 12

  Kaluga, 348

  Kanabel, 12

  Kandahar, 285

  Kanishka, 155, 156, 161, 164, 170, 178–80, 182, 183, 191, 201, 202

  Kant, Emmanuel, 259

  Kaptchaks, 38, 187, 189

  Karagoz (Turkish folklore character), 334

  Karakoram, 328, 364

  Karkemish, 356

  Kereke Mountains, 196

  Kerulen, 285

  Kha-Khan of the Oïghurs, see Balamir

  Khan, Abul Ghazi Bahadur, 368

  Khan of the Oïghurs, 7, 46, 49, 155, 187–9, 191, 277

  Khantaāskoia, Lake, 196

  Khazars, 38, 187, 189

  Khmers, 69, 186, 317, 323

  Khorasan, 285

  Khubilai, Emperor, 268, 329–31, 333, 334, 335–6, 337

  Khwarizm, 285

  Khyber Pass, 276, 303

  Ki Lien-chan, see Székesfehérvár

  Ki Liu-chan, 299

  Kinsey, Alfred, 362

  Kipling, Rudyard, 171

  Kirghiz, 75, 156

  Kleist, Heinrich von, 14

  Königsee, 346

  Kora-Kora, Mount, 3, 52, 156, 172

  Korcula, island of, 346

  Korea, 300–1, 304, 312, 330, 333

  Kosovo, battle of, 347

  Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 362

  Krk, island of, 346

  Kuchan, 7

  Kuchan, Prince, 303

  Kuropatkin, Generalissimo Aleksei Nikolaevich, 347

  Kyushu, 300

  Labianus, 35–6, 38

  Lacordaire, Henri, 139

  Ladislas, King, 284

  La Fontaine, Jean de, 261

  Lagash, 356

  Lägerlof, Selma, 171

  Lahore, 303, 318

  Lambrecht the priest, 349

  Lampidus, 349, 362, 370

  Lancelot of the Lake, 351

  Languedoc, 299

  Lao-tzu, 145

  Laplanche, J., 369

  Laquedem, Isaac, 369

  Larsa, 356

  Las Casas, Emmanuel, Comte de, 72

  Las Navas de Tolosa, 299

  Las Vegas, 228

  Laurens, Jean-Paul, 22

  Lautréamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte de, 85, 117

  Lauzun, Antonin Nompar de Caumont, Duc de, 227

  Laval, 348

  Lawrence, T. E., 148, 174

  Lazarus, 225

  Leal, Valdés, 305

  Leander, 26

  Le Corbusier (Ed
ouard Jeanneret-Gris), 250

  Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, 250

  Lefèvre-Pontalis, J.-B., 369

  Lefranc, Abel, 256

  Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 243

  Lena River, 196, 201, 216

  Lenin, Vladimir I., 174, 177, 206, 249, 268, 314

  Leo I, Pope, 328

  Leo X, Pope, 328, 338

  León, 299

  Le Senne, René, 368

  Le Tors, Lambert, 350

  Levaillant, Maurice, 85

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 248

  Libya, 21, 31, 333

  Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 257, 366

  Lindos, citadel of, 283, 331

  Liszt, Franz, 92

  Liu Kia-hway, 363

  Liutpold (father of Empress Ingeburgh), 61–2, 63

  Logophilus, 8, 239, 241, 264–5, 274, 277, 287, 290, 295, 303, 308–15, 317, 320–5, 327, 328, 331–4, 337, 340–3, 351, 355, 368

  Loire River, 287, 310

  Lombardy, 62

  Lope de Vega Carpio, Felix, 85

  Lot, Ferdinand, 368

  Louis I of Wittenbach, 346

  Louis II of Wittenbach, 346

  Louis XI (King of France), 46, 338

  Louis XIV, 227, 265

  Lübeck, 351

  Lusitanians, 284, 333

  Luynes, Charles d’Albert, Duc de, 227

  Lycia, 367

  Lyly, John, 351

  Maastricht, 227

  Macedonia, 245, 284, 286

  Machiavelli, Niccolo, 314

  Maddalena Point, 17

  Madeira, 204

  Mademoiselle, the Grand, see Montpensier, Duchesse de

  Madrid, 172

  Maghreb, 134

  Magnentius, Emperor, 362

  Maguelonne, 155

  Mala, Philippe de, 120

  Malabar Coast, 67

  Málaga, 299

  Malaparte (Kurt Suckert, called “Curzio”), 174

  Malea, Cape, 264, 284

  Malherbe, François de, 118, 264

  Malibran, Maria de la Felicidad Garcia-, 92

  Malik, al-, see Saladin

  Malot, Hector, 172

  Malraux, André, 175, 368

  Malta, 102

  Manchuria, 347

  Manfred (son of Alexis), 317–23, 324, 329, 333, 341

  Mann, Thomas, 367

  Mao Tse-tung, 299, 364

  Mirandola, see Mirandolphus

  Mirandole, see Pico de la Mirandola

  Mirandolphus, 62–4

  Marcian, 295, 324, 333

  Marcus Aurelius, 342

  Mardoch, 155, 156, 161, 170, 173, 178, 182, 183–4, 191, 202

  Maria Theresa (Empress of Austria), 273

  Marignano, battle of, 347

  Marne, battle of the, 207

  Marseilles, 199, 298

  Martian, 258, 259–60, 356

  Mary Magdalen, 225–6

  Marx, Karl, 354, 368

  Massagetans, 285

  Mathiez, Albert, 235

  Maulnier, Thierry, 28

  Mauretania, 302, 320

  Maurois, André, 85, 119

  Maurya, King, 303

  Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 14

  Mayenne, 348

  Mazarin, Jules Cardinal, 46, 364

 

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