Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro), 352, 356
Visigoths, 297
Viterbo, 294
Vitry, Nicolas, marquis then duc de (Captain of the King’s guards, then Marshal of France), 227
Vivaldi, Antonio, 352
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 6, 95, 143, 249, 327, 360, 365, 368
Voronezh, 348
Vrain-Lucas (Vrin Lucas), Denis, 225–6
Wagner, Richard, 346
Weil, Simone, 317
Weill-Pichon, Robert, 6, 17, 26, 65, 114, 138, 159, 164, 172, 213, 217, 218, 219, 256, 268, 317, 330, 362, 366
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, King, 350
Whitman, Walt, 254
Wilde, Oscar, 370
Wilhelm I, Emperor, 214
William the Conqueror, 347
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 252
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 250
Wyss, Johann Rudolf, 171
Xanadu (Khubilai’s capital), 155, 329
Xanthus, 301
Xenophon, 349
Yalu River, 317
Yangtze River, 329
Yemen, 134, 141
Yenisei River, 196
Yeni-tcheris, 285, 286
Yen-ngang, 299
Yi Chungu, 367
Yong-lo (Emperor of China), 226
Yonne, 228
Yturri, Gabriel, 227
Zapata, Emiliano, 175
Zenobia (Alexis’s sister, Balamir’s wife), 268, 329
Zenobia (Queen of Palmyra), 273
Zévaco, Michel, 148
Zingara, 142
Zoroaster, 143, 310, 321
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