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The Glory of the Empire

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by Jean d'Ormesson


  Mazar-i-Sharif, 359

  Medici, Jean de, see Leo X, Pope

  Medici, Lorenzo de’ (the Magnificent), 123–4, 174

  Medici Dynasty, 115, 174, 226

  Medina-Sidonia, 299

  Mediterranean Sea, 144, 277, 283, 299, 303, 333

  Memphis, 307, 356

  Menalchas, 16, 255, 271, 282, 295, 321, 333–4, 342, 355

  Menes, 174

  Mentor, 117

  Mercutio of Verona (Tybalt, Master of Avignon), 47, 48, 61

  Mérida, 299

  Mesa (Balamir’s sister, Bruince’s wife), 268

  Mesopotamia, 319

  Messina, 303

  Messina, Antonello da, 226

  Metagenes (architect), 249

  Metastasio, Pietro, 351

  Mexico, 7, 175

  Mezzopotamo, 71, 153, 155, 164, 178, 183, 184, 195, 335

  Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti), 342

  Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig, 250

  Mieszko, King, 285

  Milan, 272, 345

  Mille, Cecil B. de, 370

  Milton, John, 344

  Mircea (voivode), 285, 286

  Mithras, 294

  Mljet, island of, 346

  Moldovalacks, 285

  Mohammed II, 174

  Mommsen, Theodor, 369

  Mongolia, Mongols, 21, 31, 268, 317

  Monsalès, Marquis de, see Fouquet, Marie-Madeleine

  Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 85, 203, 263, 271

  Montalembert, Charles Forbes, Comte de, 139

  Monte Carlo, 337

  Montenegro, Gervasio, 362

  Monte Oliveto Maggiore, 294

  Montepulciano, 294, 304

  Monteriggioni, 294

  Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de, 143, 360

  Montesquiou-Fezensac, Robert, Comte de, 227

  Montesquiou-Fezensac family, 227

  Montpensier, Anne Marie Louise D’Orleans, the Grand Mademoiselle, Duchesse de, 228

  Monsu Desiderio (painter), 250

  Montez, Lola, 346

  Morand, Paul, 365

  Moscow, 348

  Mugodjar-Aktiubinsk, see Székesfehérvár

  Mukden, 347

  Mun, Albert, Comte de, 135

  Mundzuk, 187

  Munich, 252, 342

  Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 172

  Mursa (Asia Minor), 79, 101–2, 103, 107, 109, 178, 362

  Mursa on the Drava, 361

  Musset, Alfred de, 64

  Mussolini, Benito, 174, 367

  Mustawfi, Hamd Allah al-, 369

  Naiku, 300

  Naktonggang River, 301, 303, 320, 327

  Nandor, 77–9

  Naples, 228, 250

  Napoleon I, 38, 72, 174, 268, 326, 364, 368

  Napoleon III, 214

  Narni, Erasmo di, see Gattamelata

  Nelson, Horatio (Duke of Bronte), Viscount, 246

  Nepal, 134, 143

  Nephaot (father of Heloise), 22, 23–4, 26, 29

  Nephta River, 36, 37, 51, 68, 75, 154, 157, 162, 173, 196, 299, 363

  Nera River, 344

  Neuilly, 227

  Neuschwanstein, castle of, 346

  Neuville, Alphonse de, 22

  Nevers, Count, 284

  New York, 252, 272, 342

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 314

  Nile River, 215

  Nîmes, 305

  Nineveh, 142, 307, 356

  Niš, 284

  Nizami, 350

  Noailles, Natalie de, 254

  Normans, 297

  Norway, 351

  Novokarkaralinsk, 361

  Numidians, 35, 321

  Nysa, 363

  Odier, 35, 38

  Odoacer (King of the Heruli), 297

  Odoric Pordenone, 308

  Oedipus, 363

  Oïghurs, 38, 41, 49–50, 79, 187, 188, 308, 334, 336

  Oktar, 187

  Olivier, Laurence, Lord, 370

  Oman, Gulf of, 67

  Onessa, 11, 14–19, 30, 31, 39, 40, 43, 46, 47, 49–54, 57, 59, 61, 67, 68, 74, 75, 76, 79, 85, 92, 106, 138, 153–6, 162, 164, 183, 202, 208, 218, 220, 238–9, 244, 247, 254, 262, 293, 305, 306, 309, 312, 335

  Ophir, 302

  Ormazd, 143

  Orcagna, Andrea, 305

  Orkhon River, 196, 285

  Ormesson, Olivier Le Fèvre d’, 227

  Orontes River, 155

  Ortega y Gasset, José, 370

  Ossetes, 80

  Ostrogoths, 297

  Ottokar, King, 350

  Oxford, 257

  Oxus River, 196, 216

  Padua, 63

  Pagnol, Marcel, 365

  Paisaye, 228

  Paisiello, Giovanni, 351

  Palermo, 47, 60, 199, 202, 228, 303, 305

  Palestine, 184, 310, 366

  Palladio (Andrea di Pietro), 250, 334

  Palmyra, 305

  Pamir, 7, 303, 364

  Pannonia, 47, 362

  Pantagruel, 204

  Pantama, Cape, 4, 64, 68, 79, 308

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

  Parapoli, 38, 71, 153, 155, 156, 164, 183, 195, 333, 335

  Paraponisus, 196, 303

  Paris, 115

  Parodi, Don Isidro, 362

  Parthians, 35, 317

  Pascal, Blaise, 106, 335, 368

  Patmos, 246, 284, 308, 346

  Patom Mountains, 196

  Pauvert, J.-J., 361

  Péguy, Charles, 259

  Peking, 299–300, 307

  Pelusium, 120

  Penelope (nickname of Empress Ingeburgh in the sonnets of Mercutio of Verona), 47, 61

  Pergamum, 101

  Pericles, 225, 265

  Persepolis, 307

  Persia, 7, 21, 31, 57, 63, 142–3, 147, 186, 187, 188, 200, 229, 237, 251, 257, 258, 276, 277, 302, 309, 310, 319, 333, 348, 359

  Persian Gulf, 134, 310

  Peruzzi, Baldassare, 364

  Peshawar, 276, 303

  Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 214, 369

  Petchenegues, 187, 285

  Peter, Saint, 328

  Peter the Great, 174, 248–9

  Peter the Hermit, 334

  Petra, 137–8, 139–43, 363

  Petrarch, 250

  Phélippeaux, Antoine de, 370

  Philippon, Charles, 368

  Philocrates, 101–9, 112, 113–14, 130, 131, 132, 133, 138, 139, 145, 146, 151, 157–8, 161, 162, 163, 166, 167, 174–83, 184, 185, 189–90, 191, 193, 194, 205, 218, 219, 232, 234, 235, 264, 269, 281, 288, 290, 306, 313, 315, 317, 319, 326, 335, 350, 355, 362, 364

  Philomena, 204

  Philontes, 241, 257–8, 295, 321, 334, 356

  Phoenicia, 8, 17, 57, 102, 246

  Picasso, Pablo, 305

  Pico della Mirandola, 179

  Piedmont, 348

  Pienza, 294

  Piero della Francesca, 167, 168–70

  Pinerolo, 227

  Pirenne, Henri, 368, 369

  Pirochole, 299

  Pisa, 305, 368

  Pistoia, 172

  Plan Carpin, Jean du, 368

  Plato, 248, 366

  Pola, 287

  Poland, 63, 198

  Poldevians, 285

  Politian, 124

  Polititian, the, 258, 295, 308, 320, 333, 355–6

  Polo, Marco, 226, 329, 330, 369

  Polyphilius, 16, 24, 27, 255, 282, 295, 334, 342, 356

  Pompeii, 298

  Pomposa, 15, 16, 17–18, 19, 20–3, 26, 30, 31, 33, 34, 39, 40, 44, 46–7, 48–51, 50, 65–8, 117, 119, 155, 161, 186, 198–9, 202, 215, 217, 218, 229, 233, 234, 246, 265, 268, 275–80, 283–92, 296–7, 305, 306, 307, 339, 344, 345, 367

  Poppi, 344

  Pordenone, Odoric, see Odoric Pordenone

  Pordoï, Passo del, 344

  Po River, 287, 344

  Porphyries, Dynasty of the, 11, 15, 17, 21, 26, 30, 31, 32, 35, 37, 40, 76, 95, 114, 148, 153, 154, 161–2, 165, 166
, 175, 218, 221, 230, 244–5, 288, 335, 369

  Princeton University, 94

  Protus, 12

  Proust, Marcel, 168–9, 227, 364

  Provence, 225, 298, 310, 320

  Provence, constable of, 284, 285, 286

  Pufendorf, 258

  Pulcheria, Empress, 346

  Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 184

  Puységur, Jacques François de Chastenet, Marquis de, 206

  Pylos, 203

  Pyrenees, 299

  Queen, Algernon, 361

  Queneau, Raymond, 359

  Quilico de Spoleto, 350

  Rab, island of, 346

  Rabelais, François, 203, 225, 285, 299, 351

  Racine, Jean, 351

  Ramses II, 174, 315

  Rank, Otto, 360

  Ranke, Leopold von, 369

  Raphael, 295, 296, 338, 364

  Rasputin, Grigori Efimovich, 370

  Réage, Pauline, 256

  Red Sea, 135, 141

  Regis II (King of Sicily), 7, 47–8, 49, 50, 60, 186, 333

  Regium, 303

  Renan, Ernest, 5, 106, 114, 115–16, 120, 134, 231, 261, 364, 366

  Revel, Jean-François, 366

  Rheims, Maurice, 365

  Rhine River, 303, 304, 333

  Rhodes, 102, 186, 203, 250, 283, 284, 346

  Rhone River, 198, 292, 295, 310

  Ricimer (King of the Suevians), 297

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 14

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 134

  Ritter, Helmuth, 28, 46, 93, 94, 95, 99, 138

  Robbia, Luca della, see Della Robbia, Luca

  Roderick, 76–90, 91–2, 94–6, 107, 114, 190, 212, 213, 268, 329

  Rodzhestvensky, Admiral, 347

  Rohan-Montbazon, see Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan-Montbazon

  Rohe, Mies Van der, see Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig

  Roïlas, 187

  Roland, 351

  Romans-sur-Isère, 348

  Rome, 115, 122, 167, 199, 229, 252, 265, 268, 307, 310, 317, 318, 320, 323–8, 332–3, 336, 338–44, 367

  Rostopchin, Count Fyodor, 6

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 172, 203, 261

  Rovere (Pope Julius II), see Julius II della Rovere

  Roxana, 350

  Rubempré, Lucien de (character in Balzac), 117

  Rugghieri, Archbishop, 138–9

  Russell, Bertrand, 257, 359

  Russia, 351

  Russo-Japanese War, 347

  Sachs, Hans, 351

  Sahara Desert, 304

  Saint-Amarante, Comte de, 361

  Saint Catherine, monastery of, 135

  Saint-Fargeau, chateau of, 228

  Saint-Gaudens, 134

  Saint-Léger Léger, 364

  Saint-Louis, Île, 370

  Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de, 27, 227

  Saïs, 125

  Saitaphemes, 226

  Saladin, 174, 334

  Salamanca, 299

  Samarkand, 107, 143, 144, 148, 149, 151, 180, 192, 193, 249, 262, 276, 293, 305, 313, 320, 321, 328, 332, 335, 339, 364

  Samosata, 303

  Samoyeds, 285, 317

  Sand, George (Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant), 92

  Sangallo, 250

  Sangimignano, 294

  Sarabhavanamuktenandāmanayagam, Swami Sri (Babaji), 296

  Saratov, 348

  Sardinia, 102, 303

  Sardou, Victorien, 22, 273

  Sargon, 174

  Sarmatia, 155

  Sarmizegetusa, 51, 61, 62–3

  Satie, Erik, 124

  Saxony, 198, 330

  Scala, Cangrande, Bartolomeo, Alboino, and Cansignorio della, 287

  Scarlatti, Domenico, 352

  Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 259

  Schliemann, Heinrich, 12, 138, 359

  Schnabel, J., 171

  Schumann, Robert, 317–18

  Scythia, 16, 31, 38, 87, 90, 155, 156, 188, 202, 320, 333

  Seckendorff, Karl Sigmund von, 363

  Segalen, Victor, 134

  Segestam, 303

  Ségur, Pierre, Marquis de, 247

  Ségur, Sophie Rostopchina, Marquise de, 172

  Seine River, 287

  Selenga River, 196

  Seleucia, 142

  Selinus, 303

  Sella, Passo di, 344

  Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de, 27–8

  Seville, 305

  Sforza, Catherine, 273

  Shakespeare, 85, 164, 225, 352

  Shaw, Bernard, 370

  Sheba, Queen of, 273, 350

  Shensi, 299

  Siberia, Siberians, 134, 189, 285

  Siddhartha Gautama, see Buddha

  Sidon, 275

  Sidonius Apollinaris, 225

  Sicily, 16, 46–7, 50, 60, 67, 117, 155, 161, 186, 198–9, 202, 215, 217, 226, 234, 268, 277, 283–4, 287, 292–3, 300–1, 311, 333

  Siemréap, 323

  Siena, 294, 304

  Sigismund, King, 284

  Simeon, 77–86, 94–100, 107, 114, 133, 138, 162, 168, 189–91, 194–5, 197, 201–3, 207–13, 217, 218, 220, 232, 235, 268, 306, 313, 329, 340

  Simon, Prince, 285

  Simon the Angel, see Polititian, the

  Simon the Clerk, 350

  Sinai, 135, 137

  Sipahis, 285

  Sirmium, 287

  Sixtus V, Pope, 328

  Skorzeny, Colonel Otto, 367

  Smith, Commodore Sidney, 370

  Sodoma, Il (Giovanni Antonia Bazzi), 167, 169–70

  Sogdiana, 155, 285, 311, 320

  Solomon, King, 302, 326

  Sommerfelt, Alf, 6

  Sorel, Georges, 177

  Sostratus (architect), 249

  Soszla-Sczimonovski, Regnar, 364

  Spain, 37, 271, 287, 299, 302, 304, 309, 311, 351

  Spalato, 287

  Sphinx, 363

  Spiesz, Johann, 352

  Spinoza, Baruch de, 362

  Spoleta, 294, 344

  Sporades Islands, 278, 346

  Stalin, Josef, 174, 232

  Stalinabad, see Dyushambe

  Stalingrad, 207, 348

  Starnberger See, 346

  Stendhal (Henri Beyle), 85, 298, 360, 368

  Stephen, King, 284, 286

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 171

  Stilicho, 364

  Struwwelpeter, Max and Moritz, 359

  Suarès, André, 85

  Sudan, 134

  Suevians, 297

  Sumer, 356, 359

  Susa, 307

  Susanoo (god), 300

  Switzerland, 85

  Syme, Sir Ronald, 37

  Symē, island of, 346

  Syracuse, 47, 155, 199, 202, 303, 306

  Syr-Darya River, 196

  Syria, Syrians, 7, 16, 31, 34, 35, 67, 102, 134, 156, 202, 204, 249, 258, 275, 285, 309, 310, 320, 348

  Syrte River, 299

  Székesfehérvár (Asia), 200, 333

  Székesfehérvár (Hungary), 200, 365

  Taille, Jacques de la, 351

  Taine, Hippolyte, 362

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, Prince of Beneventum, 72

  Tamar, 363

  Tamerlane, 174, 214, 232, 248, 315

  Tancred (King of Sicily), 60

  Tannenberg, battle of, 347

  Taoism, 145, 146, 363

  Tapir, Fulgence, 256

  Tarkinos, 12

  Tarsus, 108, 120

  Tartars, 38, 75

  Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 24, 143

  Tcherkesses, 285

  Tchitchi, 187

  Tegernsee, 346

  Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 248–9

  Telemachus, 117

  Telmessos, 301, 367

  Thaumas, 5, 57–60, 64, 65–74, 77, 79, 80, 86, 92, 105–6, 114, 116, 152, 153, 154, 162, 165, 173, 193, 196, 203, 205, 213, 218, 219, 235, 246, 247, 265, 276, 310, 317, 319, 355, 356, 361

  Thebes, 307

  Theodolinda (character in Alf
red de Musset), see Ingeburgh

  Theodomir, 188

  Theodora, 26, 272–5, 277, 287, 309, 312–13, 317, 319, 321, 323, 327, 333, 341, 355, 370

  Theodora (Empress of Byzantium), 26

  Theodora (Empress), 26, 272–5, 277, 287, 309, 312, 313, 317, 319, 321, 323, 327, 333, 341, 355, 370

  Theodoric, 174, 364

  Theresa, Saint, 225

  Thierry, Amédée, 297, 367

  Thierry, Augustin, 64, 200

  Thiers, Adolfe, 206

  Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 248, 259, 314, 335, 366

  Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 252

  Thrace, 286

  Thule, 304

  Tiberias, Lake, 135

  Tiber River, 293, 327, 364

  Tibet, 134, 143, 145, 329

  Tigris River, 141, 142, 143, 273, 303

  Timgad, 305

  Tiranë, 364

  Todi, 294

  Togo, Admiral Heihachiro, 347

  Tokhars, 285

  Toledo, 299, 304, 332, 339

  Totila (King of the Ostrogoths), 297

  Toynbee, Arnold, 230, 368, 369

  Traini, Francesco, 368

  Trajan, Emperor, 352

  Transoxiana, 285

  Transylvania, 284, 347

  Triboulet (character in Hugo), 172

  Trier, 107, 305

  Tristan, 351

  Troy, 350

  Tsarkozy-Wilozlaw, 92

  Tsushima Island, 347

  Tula, 348

  Turgenev, Ivan, 92

  Turkey, 348

  Turolde, 123

  Tutankhamen, King, 320

  Twin, B. and B., 364

  Tybalt, see Mercutio of Verona

  Tyre, 17, 120, 137, 203, 275, 299, 305, 332, 335

  Uccello (Paolo di Dono), 286

  Ugek, 187

  Ugolino (della Gherardesca), 139

  Ur, 356

  Ural Mountains, 216, 303

  Urban II, Pope, 334

  Urbino, 294

  Uruk, 356

  Valais, 348

  Valerius, 8, 11, 14, 44, 123, 248, 255, 256, 264, 282, 321, 333, 337, 341, 342, 355, 361

  Valéry, Paul, 253–5

  Vallombrosa, 294, 344

  Vandals, 297

  Vanessa, 112, 122–32, 141, 145, 149, 150, 160, 164, 184, 213, 220, 232, 235, 255, 268, 271, 288, 299, 306, 319, 322

  Vanini, Vanina (“La Pasticcierina”), 226

  Varangians, 134, 237, 239

  Varus, Count, 284

  Vasari, Giorgio, 250

  Vaugelas, Claude Favre, Baron de Pérouges, Seigneur de, 118

  Vautrin, Abbá Carlos Herrera, 117

  Vaux-le-Vicomte, chateau of, 227

  Venosta Dynasty, 11, 15, 19, 21, 30, 40, 45, 46, 119, 153, 154, 162, 184, 218, 230, 244–5, 369

  Venice, 17, 115, 342

  Vercingetorix, 214, 225

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 172

  Verna, 344

  Verona, 60, 287, 305, 331, 344, 345

  Verrocchio (Andrea di Cione), 342

  Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, see Garcia, Pauline Viardot-Vicenza, 334, 344

  Victoria, Queen, 273

  Vienna, 107, 305, 320

  Vienne, 305

  Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Auguste, Comte de, 361

 

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