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ablative absolute, 222
Académie Française, 62, 63, 118, 144, 272
Académie Mallarmé, 291
Academy of Medicine, 129
Achilles and the tortoise paradox, 231
Adam, Adolph-Charles, 83
Adam, Paul, 120, 122
advertisements, 100, 138–39, 159, 210, 268, 271, 288
Aesop’s Feast (The Immoralist’s Review), 267
Against the Grain (Huysmans), 240
Agence Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, 63
Alain de Lille, 75
Albert of Saxony, Prince, 81
alchemy, 132
Alençon, Duchesse d’, 239
alexandrine, 147–48
Algeria, 34, 223, 225
alliteration, 255
ambulance wagons, 126
American Register, 119, 126
“Analytic Engine” (Babbage’s calculator), 23
analytic languages, 212
Anglo-Saxon poetry, 255
Ansermet, Ernest, 275
Anti-Semitic League of France, 19
anti-Semitism, 19, 264
Apollinaire, Guillaume 267–71, 283
Arendt, Hannah, 156
Argus, 16
Aristotle, 231
Arrangement in Grey and Black (Whistler’s Mother; Whistler), 119
Arsenal Library, 62
Artist, The (Manet), 125
Art Nouveau, 218
Artwork of the Future, The (Wagner), 108–9
Aryan languages, 252
Assommoir, L’, (Zola), 264
Atlantic Monthly, 286
Aubanel, Théodore, 71, 72, 78
Augustine, Saint, 227–28, 234, 251
Au Père Lathuille (Manet), 236
Aurore, L’, 263
Auster, Paul, 134
Austerlitz, Battle of (1805), 87
Autobiographical Notes (Einstein), 284
Babbage, Charles, 22–23
Bacon, Francis, 232
Balla, Giacomo, 271
ballet, 109, 275
Balzac, Honoré de, 73, 265–66
banquets, 235
Banville, Théodore de, 15
Barbedienne, Ferdinand, 93
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules, 61, 65, 124
Barnum, P. T., 157
“Bartleby the Scrivener” (Melville), 45
Baudelaire, Charles, 15, 43, 53, 61, 63, 64, 72, 102, 110, 124
Bazar de la Charité, 238
Beckford, William, 222
Beethoven, Ludwig von, 114
Beeton, Isabella, 98–99
Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 98
Belle Époque, 14, 15, 22, 52, 74, 97, 101, 114, 130, 139, 153, 236, 290
Béranger, Pierre-Jean de, 39, 44
Bérès, Pierre, 293
Bergson, Henri, 233
Berners-Lee, Tim, 286, 287, 306n
Bern Patent Office, 279
Berrichon, Paterne, 152
Besso, Michele, 279, 281, 284
Beurdeley, Paul, 140, 149, 150
Bible, 75, 261
Bibliothèque de France, 74
Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet, 293
Big Dipper, 104, 245
Bismarck, Otto von, 81, 84
Blavatsky, Helena, 132
Bloch, A. M., 158
Bloom, Leopold (char.), 283
Bloy, Léon, 124, 239
Boccioni, Umberto, 271
Boissière, Jules, 155
Boldini, Giovanni, 239
Bon Marché (department store), 103
Bonnard, Pierre, 17, 20
Bonnier, Charles, 148
Bonniot, Edmond, 118, 252, 289, 291, 292
Book, The (Grand Ouevre; Mallarmé)
as attempt to transpose symphonic music to written word, 109
effect of movie projection on, 159–60
as epic poem of humanity, 71–72, 74, 89
letter to Verlaine on, 136
as “new theater,” 137, 162
notes for, in Harvard University’s Houghton Library, 293
planned printing of, 137–38, 138
plan of, 92
as poetic equivalent of The Ring, 21
progress on, 132, 153, 266
proposed newspaper advertisements in, 138–39
vision of infinitely connected universe in, 285
World Wide Web in relation to, 286
Book of Jade, The, 65
Bopp, Franz, 252–53
Borges, Jorge Luis, 132
Born, Max, 279–80
Borodino, Battle of (1812), 128–29
Boulez, Pierre, 26
Bréal, Michel, 252
Brébant, Paul, 99
Breton, Geneviève, 84, 89, 94
bricolage, 15
Brient, Marcel, 292
British Arts and Crafts movement, 91
Broodthaers, Marcel, 212, 213
Buddhism, 123
Burali-Forti, Cesare, 233
Bureau, Maître (lawyer), 150
Burty, Phillipe, 112
Bush, Vannaver, 286
Buzenval, Battle of (1871), 84
Cage, John, 26, 276
Calligrammes, Les (Apollinaire), 267–68
Canary Islands, 224
“Cantique de Noël,” 83
Cantor, Georg, 232
Carjat, Étienne, 96
Carnot, M. F. S., 223
Carrefour des Demoiselles, 48, 49, 51, 52, 67, 83, 89, 91, 110, 113
carrier pigeons, 82
Carroll, Lewis, 22
Cazalis, Henri, 48, 51, 66, 91
SM’s correspondence with, 38, 46, 52, 55, 57–59, 61–62, 68–69, 77, 88–89, 92, 129, 142
Cendrars, Blaise, 271
censer, 42
census data, 23
Central Committee of the Commune, 85
Central European Time, 223
Cézanne, Paul, 110
chance, 26, 230–31
Einstein and, 279–80, 305n
SM’s obsession with, 78, 103
see also “One Toss of the Dice” (Mallarmé)
Chap Book, The, 18
Chapu, Henri, 265
Charlemagne, 239
Charlus, Baron de (char.), 240
Charpentier, Henri, 292
Chat Noir, Le (café), 272
“Chats, Les” (Baudelaire), 15
Chez Vachette (restaurant), 99
Chinese Wedding, The (Le Mariage de Chine; Dauphin), 112
Christian Brothers, 37, 41
Church Fathers, 227, 231, 251, 303n
Church of the Madeleine, 88
cinema, 225, 238, 239,
cinématographe, 25, 160
Cladel, Léon, 62, 63
Clairin, Georges, 84
Claudel, Camille, 121
Claudel, Paul, 23, 116, 124
Clemenceau, Georges, 116, 156, 120, 263, 289
Clement-Thomas, Jacques Leon, 85, 88
clocks, 20, 27, 55, 56, 93, 223, 279, 293
Club des Hashischins, 43, 66
Cocteau, Jean, 275
Cohn, Robert G., 296n
Collet, Louise, 112
Collignon, Albert, 60
Comédie Française, 62, 63
Comité des Universités de Paris et d’Amérique, 252
Commune, Communards, 79, 85–88, 90, 91, 98, 110, 131
comparative anthropology, 252
comparative philology, 251
Congress of Photographic Societies, 159
constellations, 245
in “One Toss of the Dice,” 23, 28, 51, 104, 187
Consulate of 1799 to 1804, 73
Contemporains, Les (Lazare), 117
Contemporary Parnassian, The, 64
“continual present,” 26
Coppée, François, 62, 63, 211, 238
Cortat, Raymond, 293
Cosmopolis, 212, 235–38
Coubet, Gustave, 87
Courteline, Georges, 120
Cox, William, 131, 245–46, 252
Crane, Walter, 91
Cratylus (Plato), 251
Creation, 227, 228, 280
Crick, Francis, 26
Cros, Charles, 110
Cubism, 26, 270–71, 274, 275, 283
Cuvier, Georges, 251, 254
cybernetics, 285
Dadaism, Dadaists, 26, 275
Daily Telegraph, 49, 91
Dante, 75
Dantine, Marie, 140–41
Darwin, Charles, 123
Daudet, Alphonse, 82, 229
Daudet, Léon, 18
Daughters of Catulle Mendès, The (Renoir), 67
Dauphin, Léopold, 112, 113, 130, 289
Debussy, Claude, 116, 273
Dedekind, Richard, 232
Dégas, Edgar, 116, 125, 144
Degeneration (Nordau), 300n–301n
De Genesi ad litteram (The Literal Meaning of Genesis; Augustine), 227
Delaunay, Sonia, 271
Delzant, Alidor, 106, 211
Demoiselles d’Avignon, Les (Picasso), 25, 270
Descartes, René, 107, 231, 278
Des Esseintes (char.), 240
Desmolins, André Marie Léger, 33, 36, 43, 44, 46–47, 54
Desmolins, Fanny, 35–37, 46–47, 90
Devil’s Island, 18, 264
dice, 231, 280
see also “One Toss of the Dice”
dictatorship of the proletariat, 86
Dierx, Léon, 289
digital revolution, 285
Dreyfus, Alfred, 18–19, 117, 148, 156, 252, 263, 264
Dreyfus, Mathieu, 19
Drumont, Édouard, 19
Dubois-Davesne, Fanny, 39
Du Camp, Maxime, 86, 87, 88
Duchamp, Marcel, 271–72, 275
“Duel, A” (Maupassant), 82
duels and dueling, 120–21, 240, 267
Dujardin, Édouard, 107, 117, 118–19, 121, 122, 250, 289
Dumas, Alexander, fils, 99
Duret, Théodore, 18
Duval, Jeanne, 44
Dynamism of a Dog in Motion (Balla), 271
Eden, Anthony, 148
Eden, Lady, 149, 150, 151
Eden, Lord William, 148, 151
Edison, Thomas Alva, 23, 157
Edwards, Alfred, 16
Eiffel, Gustave, 156
Eiffel Tower, 142, 225
Einstein, Albert, 27, 305n–6n
SM compared to, 279–85, 305n
electron, 26
11,000 Penises, The (Apollinaire), 267
Eliot, T. S., 26, 148, 276–78, 283
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, 239
Ems Dispatch, 81
Engels, Friedrich, 85
English language, 214, 253–54, 260
Enlightenment, 70
Enquire (Web precursor), 286, 306n
envelopes, 104–5, 116
Essarts, Emmanuel des, 35, 46, 48, 49–50, 61, 62, 77, 90
ether, 282–83
Etiquette Bleue film, 158
Eugénie, Empress, 126
European Organization for Nuclear Research, 286
Evans, Thomas, 119, 125–27, 153, 252
fan, as metaphor, 104
Far East, SM’s interest in, 104
Faulkner, William, 283
Faure, Félix, 239, 264
Félibrige, 19, 77–78, 94
Fénéon, Félix, 45, 120, 151–52
Ferry, Jules, 74
Figaro, Le, 43, 120, 161, 210, 266
Figures and Characters (Figures et caractères; Régnier), 118
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 26, 220
Firmin Didot, 241
Flaubert, Gustave, 66, 112
Florida, S.S.,225
Flowers of Evil, The (Baudelaire), 43
Flying Dutchman, The (Wagner), 108
Fontainas, André, 122
Fontainebleau Forest, 14, 48, 51–52, 112
Forain, Jean-Louis, 110
forensic dentistry, 238, 239
Fort d’Issy, 87
“Fortnight in Society, A” (Satie), 273
Foucaux, Charlotte (Mary Summer), 154
Fournier, Edmond, 154
Four Quartets (Eliot), 278
Foyot’s Restaurant, 151
France juive, La (Drumont), 19
Franck, César, 66
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), 93, 95, 251
effect on France of, 80–90, 108
use of field hospitals in, 126
Frankfurt, Treaty of (1871), 86
Freemasonry, 132
French Academy in Rome, 67
French language, 214, 253
Freud, Sigmund, 27
Fuller, Loïe, 154
Funeral March (Saint-Saëns), 84
futurism, 274
Futurist Manifesto (Boccioni), 271
Gaillard, Nina, 49, 110
Galileo, 75
Galison, Peter, 285
Gallery of Busts (La Galerie des bustes; Roujon), 118
gambling, 77
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 50
Gauguin, Paul, 97, 116
Gautier, Ernesta, 66
Gautier, Judith, 65–66, 67, 79, 110
Gautier, Théophile, 64, 65–66, 111
Gazette des beaux-arts, 112
Gervex, Henri, 128
Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), 109, 157
Ghil, René, 72, 123
Gide, André, 115, 116, 212, 237, 241, 247, 265
Gilkin, Iwan, 76
Gille, Valère, 76
Giraud, Albert, 76
Gladwell, Malcolm, 285
Gobillard, Jeannie, 20, 21, 106
Gobillard, Paule, 20, 21
God, 29, 70, 227–28, 234, 246, 261, 280, 284
Godebski, Cyprian, 16
“Goldbug, The” (Poe), 132
Goncourt, Edmond de, 229
Google, 287
Gounod, Charles, 67
Government of National Defense, 81
Grande Épicerie Anglaise, 153
Grangette, La (Natanson home), 20, 290
Grant, Ulysses S., 126
Greek language, 246, 253
Green, Mary, 49
Greenwich meridian, 224
Greenwich Time, 223
Grévy, Jules, 131
Grimm, Jacob, 251
Grossman, Marcel, 279
guardian angels, 40, 41–42
Guérin, Charles, 14
Guiches, Gustave, 219
Guizot, François, 74
Gutenberg, Johannes, 73
“Gymnopédies, Les” (Satie), 272
Habicht, Conrad, 279
Hachette, 89
Hale, Mrs. Herbert Dudley, 149, 150
Harvard University, 293
Haussmann, Baron, 86
Hebrew language, 252
Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich, 231
Heidegger, Martin, 70
Heine, Heinrich, 148
Heraclitus, 231
Heredia, José-Maria de, 62–63, 90, 98, 113, 241, 289
Heredia, Louise de, 114
Heredia, Marie de, 114
Hermes Trismegistus, 132
Herodias, 62
Herz, Cornelius, 156
hieroglyphs, 132
Hollerith, Herman, 23
Holmès, Augusta, 66, 67, 83, 110, 121, 142–43, 162
Homer, 22, 261
HTML (programming language), 286, 287
Hubbard, Gustave, 263
Hubert, Juliette, 16
Hugo, Victor, 44, 53, 65, 67
Hundred Days (Napoleon I’s return to power), 34
hunting, 101
Hunting of the Snark, The (Carroll), 22
Huret, Jules, 161
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 45, 124, 128, 140, 240
Hydropaths, 110
hypertext, hypermedia, 286
Idea, 60, 71, 78, 109, 123, 163, 230, 232, 303n
Illustrated London News, 90
Immoralist’s Review, The (Aesop’s Feast), 267
Imperial Dragon, The (Gautier), 65
Impressionists, 20, 112
intellection, 229
International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 224
International Exposition of 1900, 275
International Geographic Congress, 224
International Meridian Conference, 224
Internet, 286, 287
intuition, 229
Isidore of Seville, 251
“It’s Raining” (Apollinaire), 269
“J’accuse” (Zola), 263
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 22
japonisme, 112
Jean de Meun, 75
Jockey Club, 109
John the Baptist, Saint, 21, 62
Joplin, Scott (“Maple Leaf Rag”) 275
Journal, Le, 239
Joyce, James, 26, 112, 220, 283
Jud, Charles, 50
July Monarchy (1830–48), 34, 35, 74
July Revolution (1830), 34
Kabbalah, 132
Kafka, Franz, 26, 283
Kahn, Gustave, 148
Kandinsky, Wassily, 23
kinetograph, kinetoscope, 157–58
Labori, Fernand, 264
Ladies’ Paradise (Zola), 103
Lady Eden: Brown and Gold (Whistler), 149–51
Laforgue, Jules, 148
“Lake, The” (“Le Lac”; Lamartine), 161
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 36, 161
languages, see specific languages
Lantelme, Geneviève “Ginette,” 16–17
Latin, 214, 221–22, 253
Laundry, The (Manet), 15
Laurent, Méry, 18, 104, 106, 119, 125, 127–30, 128, 155, 289
Lazare, Bernard, 19, 117, 122
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 148
Lecomte, Claude, 85, 88
Leconte de Lisle, Charles, 64, 113
Lefébure, Eugène, 77, 252
Legendre, Alice, 83
Legendre, Clémence, 83
Legendre, Jules, 83
Le Gray, Gustave, 49
Lejosne, Valentine, 61
Leonardo da Vinci, 86–87
Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 81
Lesseps, Charles de, 156
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 156
“Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité,” 131
Lichtenberger, André, 236
Life of Mallarmé (Mondor), 292–93
light, speed of, 282–83
Lincoln, Abraham, 126
livre de peintre (painter’s book), 25
London International Exhibition, 97
longitudinal zones, 27
Lorentz, Hendrik, 283
Lorrain, Jean, 240
Lost Illusions (Balzac), 73
Louis XVI, King of France, 34
Louis-Philippe, King of the French, 34, 36
Louÿs, Pierre, 114
Low German, 261
Lumière, Antoine, 157
Lumière, Auguste, 25, 157, 158–60, 161, 238
Lumière, Louis, 25, 157, 158–60, 161, 238
“Luther Choral,” 83
Luxembourg Museum, 119
Lycée Impérial (Avignon),77
Lycée Impérial (Sens), 37, 41
Lycée Impérial (Tournon), 60
MacMahon, Patrice de, 87, 88, 131
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 154
Maison Froment-Meurice, 93
Mallarmé, Anatole, 14, 91, 129–34, 136
Mallarmé, Élizabeth, 33, 35, 40
Mallarmé, François René Auguste, 34–35
Mallarmé, Geneviève, 13, 14, 20, 21, 67
birth of, 62
Bonniot’s marriage to, 291
poems accompanying SM’s gifts to, 106
SM’s correspondence with, 145–46
on SM’s death, 289
SM’s fan poem dedicated to, 104
and SM’s final papers, 290–91
and SM’s salon, 121, 122
Whistler’s sketch of, 15
Mallarmé, Jeanne, 36
Mallarmé, Jules Charles Adélaïde, 33
Mallarmé, Maria, 34, 38, 40
Mallarmé, Marie Gerhard, 13, 14, 21
as absent from SM’s salon, 121
effect of Anatole’s death on, 133–34, 290
marriage of SM and, 59–60
poems accompanying SM’s gifts to, 106
pregnancies of, 61–62, 90
SM’s correspondence with, 145–46
SM’s courtship of, 51–52
as SM’s mistress, 54, 57–59
Mallarmé, Numa, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 44, 45, 59
Mallarmé, Stéphane:
Apollinaire compared to, 267–71
autobiographical sketch of, 72
on Battle of Sedan, 80–81
and Bazar de la Charité fire, 241
Béranger’s influence on, 39–40, 44
Bible translation of, 261
birth and childhood of, 33–39
at the Carrefour des Demoiselles, 48–51
Cazalis’s correspondence with, 38, 46, 51, 52, 55, 57–59, 61–62, 68–69, 77, 88–89, 129, 142
on decorative arts, 98
as editor and publisher of The Latest Fashion, 14–15, 92, 98, 99–103
effect of deaths of mother and sister on, 40
effect of final illness and death of son on, 129–30, 133, 134
Einstein compared to, 279–85, 305n
English studied by, 48
envelopes and poetic quatrains of, 104–5, 116
Far East as interest of, 104
Fénéon defended by, 151–52
Figaro interview with, 266
first poem by, 39
French state purchase of Whistler’s Mother negotiated by, 119
as frequent train traveler, 223
on haberdashery, 210
health complaints of, 289
holographic will of, 293
on impending fatherhood, 61–62
on importance of color black, 50, 51
insomnia of, 13, 17, 97, 155
introduction to Ghil’s essay on Symbolism by, 123
as journalist for Le National, 91
and Lamoureux concerts, 113–14
language origins as interest of, 252–61
leaves Avignon, 90
lecture on Villiers by, 143–44
lectures at Oxford and Cambridge given by, 144–47
Méry Laurent as confidante and muse of, 18, 104, 106, 119, 125, 127–30, 128, 152–53, 155, 289
Middle Ages as interest of, 75–76
at Monaco casino, 77
in move to Paris, 108
on movies, 161, 162
music as important to, 114
opera and, 101, 154
otherworldly experience of, 68–69, 71, 78
pets of, 15, 55, 265
poems accompanying gifts from, 105–6
Poe’s “The Raven” translated by, 255
poets’ banquet in honor of, 235–36
as “Prince of Poets,” 17–18, 161
pseudonyms used by, 91, 99
on punctuation, 210–11
and Regnault’s death, 88–89
religious views of, 114, 124
as reviewer of musical and dance performances, 154
Rimbaud article by, 18
on “Rodin affair,” 265
on role of poetry, 255
as Romantic poet, 72
as “sacred spider,” 25
sailing as important to, 17, 22, 33, 247–48, 248
salaries for poets proposed by, 146
salon for young people established by, 115
Satie influenced by, 272–76
Sens Registry Office job of, 45
and smoking, 97, 122
as “syntax man,” 213
Tales and Legends of Ancient India revised by, 154
teaching career of, 14, 60, 67–68, 77, 89, 94, 154–55
Tuesday salons of, 18, 116–19, 117, 121–25, 300n–301n
on Universal Exposition, 142
Valvins home of, 13–17, 19, 21, 51, 76, 106–7, 107, 112–13, 141, 247, 266
Vathek preface by, 222
Verlaine’s correspondence with, 42, 53, 102
and Villiers’s final illness and death, 140–41
Wagner’s influence on, 110, 137, 154, 162, 290
water associated with poetry by, 19
weekly routine of, 113, 125
on Whistler’s lawsuit, 148–50
Zola’s differences with, 264
Mallarmé, Stéphane, works of:
Afternoon of a Faun, 62, 64, 92
The Ancient Gods (Les Dieux antiques), 131, 245–46
“Apparition,” 92
“Autumn Complaint” (“Plainte d’automne”), 245
“The Azure” (“L’Azure”), 61, 92
“Between Four Walls” (notebook), 42
The Book, see Book, The (Grand Ouevre; Mallarmé)
“The Book, a Spiritual Instrument” (essay), 229
“Cantata for the First Communion,” 41
“Catholicism” (essay), 124
“The Cloud” (“Le Nuage”), 41–42
“The Clown Chastised” (Le Pître châtié”), 61, 92
“Crisis in Poetry” (essay), 147
“Critique” (prelude to The Book), 92
Les Dieux antiques (adaptation of Cox’s Manual of Mythology and Mythology of the Aryan Nations), 252
“The Divinity of Intelligence” (Latin thesis), 252
English Words (Les Mots anglais), 131, 254, 261
The Farce of Maître Pathelin, 75
“Funerary Toast,” 111
“The Guardian Angel,” 40
Hérodiade, 21, 62, 92, 266, 291
Igitur, 78, 79, 89, 92
“Literature. Doctrine” (essay), 247
“A Mother’s Prayer” (“La Prière d’une mère”), 41
“Music and Letters” (essay), 147
“Mystery in Letters” (essay), 299n
Offices (essay), 114
“One Toss of the Dice,” see “One Toss of the Dice” (Mallarmé)
“The Orphan,” 39
“Sea Breeze,” 92
“Sonnet,” 53, 61
“Summer Sadness,” 92
“This Virginal Long-Living Lovely Day” (“Le Vièrge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui”), 131
A Tomb for Anatole (Pour un tombeau d’Anatole), 134–35, 135, 293
“The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe,” 111
Vers et prose (anthology), 154
“Weary of Bitter Rest” (“Las de l’Amer Repos”), 61, 92
“What Silk with Balm from Advancing Days” (“Quelle Soie aux baumes de temps”), 131
“Windows,” 92
“Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow” (“Hier. Aujourd’hui. Demain”), 40
Mallarmé by One of His Own (Mallarmé par un des siens; Dujardin), 117
Mallarmé Museum, 107
Manet, Édouard, 15, 61, 110, 116, 124, 255
Manet, Eugène, 20, 125
Manet, Julie, 20, 21, 105–6, 127, 289
Manual of Mythology (Cox), 131, 245–46, 252
Marchal, Bernard, 301n
Marconi, Guglielmo, 268
Mardists, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 130, 132, 148, 151, 152, 156, 239, 240, 250, 289, 291
Margueritte, Jean-Auguste, 80–81
Marianne (symbol of the Republic), 85
Maric´, Mileva, 279
“Marseillaise, La,” 87, 131
Marx, Karl, 70, 85
Maspero, Gaston, 91
mathematicians, 232–33
Mathieu, Anna (SM’s stepmother), 36, 45, 59
Matin, Le, 16
Matter and Memory (Bergson), 233
Mauclair, Camille, 116–18, 122, 123, 250
Maupassant, Guy de, 45, 82, 85
Maxwell, James Clerk, 281, 283
McClatchy, J. D., 25
McLuhan, Marshall, 244
mean solar time, 223
Meissonier, Ernest, 84
Melville, Herman, 45
Memories of a Young Don Juan (Apollinaire), 267
Mendès, Catulle, 120–21, 130, 211, 289,
as editor of literary journals, 64
on Igitur, 79
Judith Gautier and, 65–67
in liaison with Augusta Holmès, 66
as Mardist, 113, 120, 122–23
as proponent of Wagner, 79, 110
Men of Today, The (Les Hommes d’aujourd’hui; Verlaine, ed.), 132
menorahs, 100
Mercure de France, Le, 154, 162
meridians, 224
meter, as standard of length, 224
Michelangelo, 87
Ministry of Culture, French, 292
Mirely, or the Little Hole That Doesn’t Cost Much (Apollinaire), 267
Mistral, Frédéric, 19, 78, 81, 82, 94
Mockel, Albert, 117, 122
modernity, 29, 70
molecular biology, 27
Moltke, Helmuth von, 81, 223
Mondor, Henri, 292–93
Monet, Claude, 116, 125
Montesquiou, Robert de, 121, 130, 211, 239–40
Moore, George, 16, 148
Moréas, Jean, 211
Morel, Françoise, 291
Morice, Charles, 161
Morisot, Berthe, 20, 105, 121–22, 125
Morris, William, 76, 91
Morton, Jelly Roll, 275
Moulin Rouge, 154
movies, 225, 238, 239,
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, 98–99
Mrs Dalloway (Woolf), 283
Müller, Max, 131, 252
Munich, University of, 70
musical scores, 22, 26, 273–74, 274
musique aléatoire, 26
Nadar, Félix, 18, 82, 127
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 14, 34, 87, 127–28
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 14, 36–37, 44, 64, 109, 126
apology from Kaiser Wilhelm demanded by, 81
capture of, 79–80
censorship under, 43, 65, 73
Offenbach’s friendship with, 110
and urban renewal of Paris, 86
Natanson, Thadée, 16, 20, 289, 290
National, Le, 91
National Convention, 34
National Guard, 84, 85, 88
National Observer, 154
Neil, R. A., 146
Nelson, Ted, 286
Neoplatonism, 226
Neuilly, 65, 240
New Men (Les Hommes nouveaux), 271
Newton, Sir Isaac, 278, 283
Niederhäusen, Auguste de, 20
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 29, 70
Nordau, Max, 123, 300n–301n
Norman Conquest, 253
Normant, Mme Henri, 21
North Star, 246, 253
Nostradamus, 132
Notre-Dame Cathedral, 76
nouns, 222–23
Novel of a Night, The (Mendès), 65
nuclear fission, 26
Nude Descending a Staircase (Duchamp), 271–72
Occitan language and literature, 78
oceans, in “The Cloud,” 41
Odysseus, 283
Odyssey (Homer), 22
Offenbach, Jacques, 109–10
Office of Scientific Research and Development, U.S., 286
Ollivier, Père, 239
Olympia Academy, 279
Olympic Games of 1896, 252
“On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light” (Einstein), 305n–6n
“One Toss of the Dice” (“Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira le Hasard”; Mallarmé)
advertisements in, 288
Afternoon of a Faun as prefiguring, 62
alliteration in, 256–58
attack on verse in, 147–48, 212, 241
and Bazar de la Charité fire, 241
blank spaces in, 22, 136–37, 138, 163, 213, 237, 288
The Book as foundation of, 71–72, 74
Broodthaers’s graphic edition of, 213
complete English version of, 167–87
complete French version of, 189–209
constellations in, 23, 28, 51, 104, 187
corrected proofs for, 293
Cosmopolis edition of, 163–65, 212, 235–38
effect of Regnault’s death on, 89
ellipses as used in, 219
as existential crossword puzzle, 27
as feat of graphic design, 212
as first poem of literary relativity, 284
influence of poster art on, 22, 139
influence of “There Once Was a Little Boat” on, 51
and invention of cinema, 159, 162
Montesquiou on, 240
Morel’s edition of, 291
musical score in, 164, 218
as not intended to be read aloud, 212
phonology in, 260
as poetic Rorschach test, 28
as precursor of “medium is message,” 244
preface to 1897 Cosmopolis edition of, 163–65
proposed luxury edition of, 237–38
repeated consonant sounds in, 255–59
second edition planned for, 241–45
shipwrecks and sailing as themes of, 22, 24, 33, 38, 51, 57, 169, 172, 214, 215, 229, 242, 246, 257, 258, 259
and SM’s nonfiction, 131
SM’s otherworldly experience and, 71–72
syntax of, 23, 214–23, 222–23, 228, 243, 271, 275
A Tomb for Anatole as precursor to, 135
typefaces as used in, 164
wing imagery in, 242–43, 248–49
“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” (Einstein), 281
Opera Ballet, 109
Opera Bouffe, 112
operas, 101, 154
see also specific operas
Orpheus, 255
O’Shaughnessy, Arthur, 111
Otto I, King of Greece, 64
Our Meetings (Nos Rencontres; Régnier), 118
Palace of Industry, 239
Palissy, Bernard, 93
Pall Mall Gazette, 150
Panama Canal Company, 155–56
Parade (Satie), 275
paradoxes, 231, 232
Paris:
capture of (1814), 236
department stores in, 103
and Franco-Prussian War, 82, 108
urban renewal of, 86
Valvins compared to, 113
Paris Observatory, 223, 224
Paris Opera House, 109
Paris Time, 223
parlottes (political clubs), 87
Parnassians, 62, 63, 95, 97
Parville, Henri de, 161
Pater, Walter, 146
Pathelin (character in play), 76
Patriote, La, 143
Patton, George, 13
Payne, John, 60, 94, 131
Pelléas et Mélisande (Maeterlinck), 154
Pennsylvania, University of, 127
Père-Lachaise Cemetery, 17, 44, 88
Perse, Saint-John, 280
petroleuses, 88
philosophy, German, 70
phonograph, 23
Picasso, Pablo, 23, 25, 270
Picquart, Georges, 263
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 119
Pirou-Normandin, 161
Plato, 226, 227, 231, 232, 246–47, 251, 303n
Plotinus, 285
Plume, La, 17–18
pneumatique, 211
Pocket Theatre Relay Team, 276
Poe, Edgar Allan, 89, 90, 146, 255, 276
SM’s poem on, 111
SM’s translations of, 154
Poincaré, Henri, 155, 278–79
Poincaré, Raymond, 155
Polaris, 245
Pont de Valvins, 13
Popelin, Claudius, 98
Poste, La, 160
poster art, 22, 39
Pound, Ezra, 148
Powell, Frederick York, 145
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 91, 94, 111, 124
prime meridian, 224, 225
Principles of Mathematics, The (Russell), 233
printing industry, 73
Prix de Rome, 67
“Prose of the Trans-Siberian, The” (Cendrars and Delaunay), 271
Proust, Antonin, 119, 125
Proust, Marcel, 26, 97, 121, 220–21, 233, 240, 283
Provençal language and literature, 78
Prunaire, Alfred, 112
psychology, 27
Ptolemy, 245
puerperal fever, 99
punch cards, 23–24
punctuation, 210–11
quantum physics, 278–80
Queen, The: The Lady’s Newspaper, 82, 98–99
Radical, Le, 160
Raffaëlli, Jean-François, 241
Redon, Odilon, 15, 237, 265
Regnault, Henri, 49–50, 67, 83–84, 85
Regnault, Victor, 67, 84
Régnier, Henri de, 38, 114, 144, 247–48, 289
in duel with de Montesquiou, 121, 240
Régnier, Pierre de, 114
Reign of Terror, 34, 35
Reinach, Baron Jacques, 156
Reinach, Joseph, 156
relativity, theory of, 27, 280–84
religion:
in Apollinaire’s poetry, 270
decline of, 112, 124
Mauclair’s comparison of poetry to, 123
Satie and, 272
SM and, 41, 137
SM’s salon likened to, 122–23
Religion de Mallarmé, La (Marchal), 301n
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 220–21, 240
Renard, Jules, 212
Renoir, Auguste, 20, 67, 105, 116, 125, 127, 289–90,
as co-guardian of Julie Manet, 20, 106
portrait of Misia Sert by, 17
Valedon as model for, 276
Republic, RMS, 225
Restoration (1815–1848), 73
Revolution of 1789, 33, 63, 74, 124, 141, 142, 210
Revue blanche, La, 16, 20, 154
Revue fantaisiste, Le, 64
Revue indépendante, 117
Revue nouvelle, La, 60, 61
Revue wagnérienne, 110, 117
Ridiculous Martyrs, The (Cladel), 63
Rienzi (Wagner), 108
Rimbaud, Arthur, 18, 95–96, 148
Rimbaud, Isabelle, 152
Ring cycle (Wagner), 21, 154
Rishis (Hindu sages), 246
Rite of Spring (Stravinsky), 25–26
Rodenbach, Georges, 91, 229
Rodin, Auguste, 15, 20, 265–66, 289, 290
Rollinat, Maurice, 110
Romance of the Rose (Jean de Meun) 75
Roman d’Alexandre, 147
Romantic poets, Romanticism, 44, 62, 72, 75, 97, 161
Rome (Zola), 16
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 60
Röntgen, Anna Bertha, 160
Röntgen, Wilhelm, 160
Roquette, La (prison), 88
Rosati, Félix, 120
Rosicrucians, 272
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 91
Rothschild, Baron Alphonse de, 240
Rothschild Bank, 64
Rougon-Macquart, The (Zola), 264
Roujon, Henry, 117–18, 152, 289–90
Roumanille, Joseph, 78
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 224
Russell, Bertrand, 233
sail, as metaphor, 19, 104, 242, 243, 247
sailing, 17, 19, 22, 247–48, 248
see also shipwrecks and sailing, as themes of “One Toss of the Dice”
Saint-René-Taillander, 89
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 66–67, 84, 88
Salle Lamoureux, 113
Salomé, 21, 62
Salon Indien du Grand Café, 159
Salons (art exhibitions), 125, 149
Sanskrit, 246, 251, 253
satanic cultism, 43
Satie, Erik, SM’s influence on, 26, 272–76
Saussaye, Herminie du, 37
Schoenberg, Arnold, 23
Schola Cantorum, 273
School for Scandal, The (Sheridan), 60
Schwartzkoppen, Maximilien von, 263
Science of Language (Müller), 252
Séailles, Gabriel, 21
Séailles, Mme Gabriel, 21
Second Empire, 73, 81
see also Napoleon III, Emperor of the French
Second Republic, 37
Sedan, Battle of (1870), 79–80, 95, 126, 223
Seignobos, Charles, 60, 111
Seine, 82, 248
Semitic languages, 252
Senate, French, 63
Septentrion (North Star), 246, 253
Sert, José Maria, 17
Sert, Misia, 16, 17, 20, 289
set-theory paradoxes, 232
Seurat, Georges, 120
sewing machine, 159
Shakespeare, William, 60
Shattuck, Roger, 235
sheet music, 22, 26, 273–74, 274
Sherard, Robert, 211
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 60
shipwrecks and sailing, as themes of “One Toss of the Dice,” 22, 24, 33, 38, 51, 57, 169, 172, 214, 215, 229, 242, 246, 257, 258, 259
“Shut Up in Paris” (Yapp) 82–83
Siege of Paris, 1870–71, The (Meissonier), 85
Simon, Jules, 94
simultaneity. see time simultaneity
“Sleeper in the Valley, The” (Rimbaud), 95
smoking, 97, 122
Société des Gens de Lettres, 265
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 265
software for printing, 244
Soir, Le, 151
Solovine, Maurice, 279
Sotheby’s Paris, 292
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 283
Sousa, John Philip, 275
Spanish Revolution of 1868, 81
speed of light, 282–83
Sports et Divertissements (Satie), 273–74
Stéphane Mallarmé: A Hero (Mockel), 117
Stein, Gertrude, 26
stovepipe hat, 210
Stravinsky, Igor, 23, 25–26
stream of consciousness, 26
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte (Seurat), 120
Sun of the Dead, The (Les Soleil des morts; Mauclair), 117–18
Superstar, 287
surgical field hospitals, 126
Swann in Love (Proust), 121
Symbolists, 97, 123, 144, 151
see also specific poets
syntax, 221–22, 267, 276
Tailhade, Laurent, 151
Tales and Legends of Ancient India (Contes et légendes de l’Inde ancienne; Foucoux), SM’s revision of, 154
Tannhäuser (Wagner), 109–10
Taylorian Association, 145
telegraph, 268
textile looms, 22
Théâtre de Châtelet, 275
Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, 212
Théâtre Mondain, 18
“There Once Was a Little Boat That Never on the Sea Had Sailed” (song), 50–51
Thiers, Adolphe, 84, 85–86
Third Army, U.S., 13
Third Republic, 114, 131, 227
Thomas Evans Museum and Dental Institute, 127
Thomson, J. J., 26–27
Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear (Satie), 273
time, universal, 27, 223–25
time simultaneity:
in Apollinaire’s “Zone,” 268, 270–71
Augustine on, 228–29
in cinema, 159, 225
Einstein and, 27, 279, 283, 285
in modern art and literature, 220–21, 270–71, 274, 276–78, 283
in “One Toss of the Dice,” 27, 219–20, 221–22, 223, 225, 285
and spatial meridians, 224–25
and wireless transmission, 225
Times of London, 144–45
Titanic, RMS, 225
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Borges), 132
Tolstoy, Leo, 127–28, 232
tombeaux (literary homages), 111
Tomorrow’s Eve (L’Ève future; Villiers de l’Isle-Adam), 157
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 17, 20, 276
train travel, clock coordination and, 223
Traité du verbe (Ghil), 123
Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau (Le Gray), 49
Triumphal Ode (Holmès), 142–43, 162
troubadours, 78
tuberculosis, 83
Tuileries Palace, 88
Tunisia, 223
Twombly, Cy, 26
typography, 22, 164
Ulfilas, Bishop, 261
Ulysses (Joyce), 283
universal day, 224
Universal Exposition (1867), 126, 141
universal time, 27, 223–25
Ursa Major, 245, 246
Utrillo, Maurice, 276
Uzanne, Octave, 157
Valadon, Susanne, 276
Valéry, Paul, 114, 116, 124, 289,
and “One Toss of the Dice,” 247, 265
Valvins, SM’s country house at, 13–17, 19, 21, 51, 76, 106–7, 107, 112–13, 141, 247, 266
Vasselot, Marquet de, 265
Vathek (Beckford), 222
Vendôme Column, 87
Venetian mirror, 68–69, 69
Verdurin, Mme (char.), 121
Verlaine, Paul, 85, 96, 116, 146–47, 211
SM and, 17–18, 19, 35, 39–40, 42, 53, 72, 95, 102, 132, 136
Versailles, 84
vers libre (free verse), 148
“Vexation” (Satie), 276
Victoria, Queen of England, 263
Vielé-Griffin, Francis, 120–21
Vilains Bonhommes, 95
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Auguste, 63–64, 66, 79, 83, 89, 110, 116, 140–41, 157, 219
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Victor “Totor,” 140–41
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène, 76
Vollard, Ambroise, 237, 292
Vuillard, Édouard, 17, 20, 289, 290
Wagner, Cosima, 79
Wagner, Richard, 21, 64, 67, 79, 108–10, 113, 116, 154
Holmès’s Triumphal Ode influenced by, 66, 142
SM’s delight in, 114
Walküre, Die (Wagner), 154
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 127–28, 232
Warhol, Andy, 275
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 26, 276–77
water:
in “One Toss of the Dice,” 22, 257
Satie and, 273–74, 274
SM’s association of poetry with, 19
“Water-chute, Le” (Satie), 273–74, 274
Watson, James, 27
Weber, Max, 70
Wendelen, Charles, 98
Wertheimer, Max, 280
Whibley, Charles, 145
Whistler, James McNeill, 16, 116, 119, 146, 266
in lawsuit over Lady Eden, 149–51
lithographic portrait of SM by, 154
sketch of Geneviève by, 15
Whistler, Trixie, 16
White Star Line, 225
Whitman, Walt, 148
Wikipedia, 287
Wilde, Oscar, 118–19, 211
Wilhelm I, Kaiser, 79, 81, 83
wing imagery, 40–42, 104, 242–43, 248–49
Woolf, Virginia, 26, 283
Word, the (God’s creation of the world), 227–28, 234, 303n
World Wide Web, 28, 285, 286, 287, 288
Worth, Charles, 102
X-rays, 160
Yapp, Ettie, 58, 82–83, 84
at Carrefour des Demoiselles, 49–50
death of, 91, 99
relationship with Cazalis, 51, 66, 91
Yapp, Isabelle, 82–83
at Carrefour des Demoiselles, 49, 82–83
“Shut Up in Paris,” 82–83
Yeats, William Butler, 116
Young Girls at the Piano (Renoir), 20
Zend (supposed Persian language), 253, 304n
Zeno of Elea, 231
Zeno’s paradox, 232
Zola, Emile, 16, 19, 103, 113, 121, 263, 264
Zone (Apollinaire), 26, 268, 270
Zurich Polytechnic Institute, 279