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The Glory of the Empire

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by Jean d'Ormesson


  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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