Within a Budding Grove (vol II pp 415-25) Notes for June 2011

Duc de Nemours

p 415:  | The Marquise mentions the Duc de Nemours carrying a package up to her father. He was really Prince Louis d'Orléans, 2nd son of future king, Louis-Philippe. 

| The "unfortunate" Duchesse de Praslin had been murdered in 1847, most likely by her husband Charles de Choiseul-Praslin, an event that indirectly affected the start of the 1848 Revolution. Read the sordid story here. 

p 416: | The Choiseul family of Champagne.

Louis the Fat

| Louis the Fat (Louis le Gros) = Louis VI, King of France, 1108-37.

| Louis de Loménie (French scholar & writer, Académicien, 1815–78).
| Louis-Mathieu Molé, 1781-1855, French statesman, 18th Prime Minister, Académicien.

| Ximénès Doudan, French writer, 1800-82.
| Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, writer, see samples translated by Paul Auster.
|"...the materialist position appeared to be crumbling..." 

p 420 | Saumur=historic west/central French town that has military training schools.

| Doncières is in Lorraine in northeastern France.

| Monocles, old and new

p 422 | Carriage-and-pair 

p 425 | Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche

| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,  French philosopher, 1809-65. 

| Comte de Marsantes = Saint-Loup’s father