Ahlström (Anne) – 190

Albalat (Antoine) – 23, 156, 173

Alden (Douglas W.) – 197

Alembert (Jean d’) – 166, 168

Aubigné (Agrippa d’) – 60

Augier (Émile) – 85

Balibar (Renée) – 197

Bally (Charles) – 194

Balzac (Honoré de) – 33, 35, 83, 90-91, 93, 104, 116, 156, 177, 187, 191

Balzac (Jean-Louis Guez de) – 63, 107

Bataille (Georges) – 192

Bataille (Henry) – 129

Baudelaire (Charles) – 92, 94, 97, 102, 159, 161, 197

Bergson (Henri) – 39, 53, 155, 165

Berret (Paul) – 59

Blanche (Jacques-Émile) – 85

Bloy (Léon) – 63

Boileau (Nicolas) – 67-68, 73, 166

Bossuet (Jacques Bénigne) – 61, 67, 76-77, 90, 108, 116, 175

Bouhours (le Père) – 167, 169, 189

Bouilhet (Louis) – 59, 62, 117-118, 135-136, 152, 175, 190

Boulenger (Jacques) – 6-7, 10-11, 13, 25, 39, 40, 47, 65, 87-88, 110, 131-133, 149, 161-163, 166, 174, 180

Bréal (Michel) – 102

Bremond (Henri) – 159

Brunetière (Ferdinand) – 62-63, 126

Buffon – 110, 120, 166, 168

Bussy d’Amboise – 60

Carco (Francis) – 17

Caylus (Mme de) – 159, 160

Céard (Henry) – 6, 9, 11, 25, 47-48, 51, 65

Cendrars (Blaise) – 17

Cervantès (Miguel de) – 48, 139

Chateaubriand (Fr.-René de) – 12, 23, 47, 49-51, 56-57, 59-61, 67, 74, 94-95, 108, 117, 120, 132-133, 135, 137, 146, 156-157, 159-160, 168-169, 176, 183-184, 189, 191

Cim (Albert) – 42, 46, 171, 190

Cladel (Léon) – 158

Colet (Louise) – 48, 51, 61, 73, 117, 139

Colwell (D. J.) – 197

Compagnon (Antoine) – 53, 197

Coppée (François) – 59

Courier (Paul-Louis) – 42, 102, 110, 154, 159, 169, 171, 176

Curel (François) – 129

Cuvillier-Fleury (Alfred-Auguste) – 93

Dascal (Marcelo) – 198

Daudet (Alphonse) – 62, 111, 138

Daudet (Léon) – 97

De Staël (Germaine) – 60, 151

Debussy (Claude) – 183

Deffoux (Léon) – 117

Delacroix (Eugène) – 46, 133

Desbordes-Valmore (Marceline) – 39

Descartes (René) – 96, 156, 166

Du Camp (Maxime) – 44, 48, 57-58, 60, 62, 117, 133-136, 148-149, 152, 174

Du Locle (Camille) – 152

Faguet (Émile) – 11, 57, 60, 62, 69, 82, 101, 117, 134, 148, 150

Fauchois (René) – 17

Fénelon – 23, 156, 175

Fielding (Henry) – 185

France (Anatole) – 25, 42, 45, 102, 144, 155, 159, 169, 171, 176, 184

Galateria (Daria) – 197

Gassicourt (Ch.-Louis Cadet de) – 49

Gaultier (Jules de) – 138

Gautier (Théophile) – 31, 59, 136, 187

Genette (Gérard) – 197

Giard (Alfred) – 145

Gide (André) – 25

Gilbert (Pierre) – 20, 88, 100

Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) – 73, 75, 92, 138

Goncourt (Edmond et Jules de) – 59, 61-62, 92, 116-117, 150-152, 169-170, 173, 187

Gourmont (Remy de) – 102, 138, 155, 156

Halévy (Daniel) – 7, 92-94, 118

Herder (Johann Gottfried) – 151

Hermant (Abel) – 26, 31, 69, 190

Homère – 41, 139, 151, 154

Horace – 127

Hugo (Victor) – 41, 45, 48, 57, 59, 63, 67, 73, 77, 94, 97, 108, 132-133, 135, 137, 146, 151-152, 154, 158, 165, 168-169, 176, 187

Huysmans (Joris-Karl) – 63, 173

La Bruyère (Jean de) – 62, 67, 77, 93, 108-109, 113, 116, 121-122, 133, 145-146, 165, 184

La Fontaine (Jean de) – 51, 68, 76, 108-109, 112, 153, 168, 183

Labat (Louis) – 32

Lamartine (Alphonse de) – 33, 35, 165, 168

Lanson (Gustave) – 156

Lasserre (Pierre) – 39

Le Goffic (Charles) – 146

Le Poittevin (Alfred) – 117

Léautaud (Paul) – 138

Lefèvre (Frédéric) – 39

Lemaître (Jules) – 45, 56

Littré (Émile) – 26, 29, 34, 43, 45, 148, 166, 168, 175

Loti (Pierre) – 18, 25, 33, 35, 169

Magre (Maurice) – 17

Maingueneau (Dominique) – 198

Malherbe (François de) – 184

Marx (William) – 13, 144, 165, 197

Mauclair (Camille) – 6, 9, 11-12, 99, 105, 123-125, 129, 130

Maupassant (Guy de) – 63, 82, 138

Mauriac-Dyer (Nathalie) – 106, 197

Maurois (André) – 197

Meizoz (Jérôme) – 197

Mérimée (Prosper) – 23, 156, 176

Michelet (Jules) – 163, 183

Molière – 7-8, 28, 33, 48, 50, 67, 76, 94, 97, 152, 180, 192

Monnier (Henry) – 155

Montaigne (Michel de) – 60, 159

Montesquieu – 62, 84, 133, 159, 179, 180

Morand (Paul) – 82, 197

Moréas (Jean) – 137-138, 153, 167

Morellet (l’Abbé) – 67, 184

Mortier (Pierre) – 20

Musset (Alfred de) – 45, 94, 176

Naturel (Mireille) – 82, 198

Nerval (Gérard de) – 39, 92, 95-96, 118

Ohnet (Georges) – 129

Orion – 25-26, 100

Parienté (Robert) – 72

Pascal (Blaise) – 75-77, 102, 110, 113, 133, 139

Paulhan (Jean) – 102, 106, 192

Picasso (Pablo) – 125

Platon – 61, 109

Pradon (Jacques) – 50

Proust (Marcel) – 6-12, 18, 25, 39-40, 53-54, 65, 81-82, 84-85, 88, 91-92, 94, 96, 99-107, 110, 117-118, 123-129, 131-133, 143-144, 150, 152-154, 157-159, 161-165, 174, 177-181, 185, 191, 197

Puy (Michel) – 6, 131, 136, 139, 149

Rabelais (François) – 39, 48, 60, 159, 168

Rachilde – 26

Racine (Jean) – 50, 73, 75-76, 78, 94, 109, 113, 121, 133, 145, 152, 168

Reinach (Théodore) – 96

Renan (Ernest) – 39, 69, 73, 75, 83, 104, 133, 144, 146, 157-159, 168, 184

Renoir (Auguste) – 90

Reyer (Ernest) – 152

Rivière (Jacques) – 53, 88, 99, 106, 163

Rivoire (André) – 93-94

Robert (Louis de) – 5-7, 9-12, 17-18, 20, 23, 25-29, 31-35, 39-41, 43, 47-48, 51, 55, 60, 62, 65-66, 71, 81, 100, 101, 124, 133, 143, 147-148, 150, 152, 161, 164-165, 170-171, 192-193

Rostand (Edmond) – 32

Roustan (Mario) – 193-194

Saint-Évremond (Charles de) – 76, 159

Saint-Simon (Louis de) – 33, 35, 76-77, 84, 109, 163, 173

Sainte-Beuve (Charles-Augustin) – 7-8, 62, 75, 81-82, 91-94, 118, 125, 133, 143, 145, 150, 157, 162, 171-172, 187, 190, 192

Salmon (André) – 17, 26

Schwob (Marcel) – 45, 175

Sénard (Antoine) – 95

Sévigné (Mme de) – 109, 148, 168

Souday (Paul) – 6-9, 11-12, 25-27, 31-33, 40-42, 47, 55, 65, 67, 69, 71, 81, 99-100, 102, 104-105, 109, 116-117, 124, 132-133, 143-144, 147, 149-150, 154, 156, 159-162, 164, 170-171, 177, 184, 192-193

Stapfer (Paul) – 42, 46, 171, 190

Stendhal – 33, 35, 39, 74, 78, 93, 138, 147, 154, 156, 159, 177, 191

Suarès (André) – 6, 11, 13, 17, 26, 71-73, 75, 78, 82, 124, 132-133, 135

Tacite – 61

Tailhade (Laurent) – 145

Taine (Hippolyte) – 57-58, 154, 185

Tellier (Jules) – 184

Thibaudet (Albert) – 6-7, 9-13, 25, 40, 47, 53-54, 59, 62-63, 65-69, 71, 81-82, 89, 92, 94, 99, 100-101, 105-106, 109-110, 113, 116-118, 121-125, 127, 132-133, 149, 165, 191, 198

Valéry (Paul) – 25, 197

Vandérem 7, 92, 118

Vauquelin des Yveteaux – 184

Voltaire – 69, 77, 90, 102, 104, 108, 117, 139, 153, 156, 158-159, 187, 190

Weiss (J.-J.) – 101, 148, 150

Wilde (Oscar) – 147

Zoïle – 12, 41, 164

Zola (Émile) – 18, 111, 187