The Horror of Love (42 page)

Freeman-Mitford, Clement (NM’s uncle) killed,
24–5

French Welfare, Department of (British),
120–1

Friese-Green, Molly,
132

Funck-Brentano, Christian, III

Gaillard, Felix,
213

Galtier-Boisière, Jean,
149

Gardner, Evelyn (Mrs Evelyn Waugh),
42

Gascoigne, Alvary Douglas (Trench-Gascoigne),
114

Gaulle, Charles de attempted escape with Marcel Diamant-Berger,
48
, GP meets,
73
,
75–6
, qualities and character,
73–4
, Roosevelt’s relations with,
73
,
117
,
121
, marriage and children,
74
, wartime actions and defiance,
74–5
, and pre-war defence policy,
77
, joins government (June 1940),
101
,
103
, and collapse of France,
102–3
, first meets Churchill,
102
, encounter with Pétain,
103
, meets British delegation at Tours (June 1940),
103–4
, mission to London,
104–5
, GP allies with,
106
, on GP’s prescience,
106
, leaves France for London,
107–8
, returns to Bordeaux and resigns from government,
107
, broadcast speech to French people from London,
108–10
, learns of British destruction of French fleet,
113
, British wariness of,
115
, forms and heads Free French,
115
,
121
, sails for Dakar,
115–16
, appoints GP director of political affairs,
116–17
, resentment of USA,
117–18
, visits French refugee camps in Britain,
119
, manner and self-belief,
121–2
,
151
, life in London,
123
, appoints DG director of Cabinet,
127–8
, and French position in East Africa,
127
, in Algiers,
137–8
, told of plans for Normandy invasion,
143–5
, quarrel with Churchill over invasion plans,
144–5
, not invited by Churchill to visit Normandy front,
145
, recognized by Allied governments-in-exile,
145
, meets Roosevelt in USA,
146–8
, returns to France (1944),
146
, enters liberated Pans,
150–2
, confirms GP as Cabinet director in France,
160
, Paris headquarters,
160
, residence,
161
, on
épuration
,
164
, Communist support for,
167
, and elections (1945),
167–9
, popular French attitude to,
167–8
, relations with GP,
168–9
, denies office to Communists,
170–1
, retained as prime minister (1945),
170
, resigns,
172
, and formation of RPF,
173
, post-war relations with British,
181
, visits brothels,
197
, political tours,
210
, supports European community,
211
, loses seat in 1956 election,
214
, returns as president of France (1958),
214
,
232
, recommends GP for EU post,
215
, politics of grandeur,
230
, Italian wariness of,
232
, state visit to Italy (1959),
233
, asks Pompidou to form government,
238
, stands in presidential election (1965),
240
, and student protests (1968),
246–7
,
249
, resigns and retires to Colombey (1969),
256–7
, death,
257
,
Mémoires
,
102
,
109

Gaulle, Henri and Jeanne de (Charles’s parents),
74

Gaulle, Yvonne de
(née
Vendroux, Charles’s wife),
74
,
76
,
107
,
139
,
161
,
169
,
249
,
254

Gensoul, Admiral Marcel-Bruno,
112–13

Germany as threat,
76
, annexes Austria,
77
, advance in western Europe,
101
,
103

Girard, Lieut Henri,
126

Giraud, Henri,
137–8

Gladys (NM’s maid),
128

Godebski, Cyprien,
71

Godebski, Jean,
71

Goering, Hermann,
96

Gollancz, (Sir) Victor,
62

Gondar, Ethiopia,
126

Gordon, Idina,
154

Gould, Anna,
251

Gould, Florence,
251–2

Gramont, Count Louis-René and Countess Antoinette de (née Rochechouart-Mortemart),
197

Gramont, Marguerite de (Margot),
197–8
,
255

Grey, Lady Jane,
134

Gronchi, Giovanni,
218

Groult, Jean,
172

Guggenheim, Peggy,
243

Guinness, Alexander,
134

Guinness, Bryan
(later
2nd Baron Moyne) marriage to Diana,
39
, and Bruno Hat hoax,
41
, Diana leaves,
45
, buys NM’s wedding dress,
54
, allowance to Diana,
67

Guinness, Jonathan
The House of Mitford
,
134

Guitry, Sacha,
163

Guy, Captain,
170

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia,
126

Hammersley, Violet
(née
Williams-Freeman),
90
,
94
,
98
,
128
,
215

Hanfstaengl, Putzi,
59

Harcourt, Charles Jean Mane, Duc d’,
251

Harcourt, Thyra, Duchesse d’,
251

Harker, Alan,
98

Harrod, Henry,
82

Harrod, (Sir) Roy,
85

Harrod, Wilhelmina, Lady (‘Bilk’),
82
,
154

Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of
(née
Kennedy),
93

Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of,
93

Hat, Bruno (hoax),
41

Hatherop Castle (school),
29

Hayworth, Rita,
123

Heller, Gerhard,
252

Helleu, Paul-Cesar,
23
,
130

Hepburn, Audrey,
244

Hill, Ann,
132

Hill, (George) Heywood (bookshop),
132
,
155–6

Hitler, Adolf Unity’s attachment to,
49
,
60
,
88–9
, dislikes make-up,
58–9
, Diana meets,
59
,
88
, totalitarianism,
77
, arranges transfer of Unity to Switzerland,
90
, NM’s hatred of,
94–5
, and occupation of Czechoslovakia,
97

Hogg, Quintin
(later
Baron Hailsham),
85

homosexuality among young men,
36–7

Hope-Vere, Romie,
181

Horizon
(magazine),
252

Howard, Brian,
30
,
33–5

Hozier, Lady Blanche,
203

Hull, Cordell,
147

Huxley, (Sir) Julian,
128

Huxley, Juliette,
128

In Which We Serve
(film),
184

Inch Kenneth (island), Hebrides,
89

Institut Charles de Gaulle,
261

Inter-Allied Club, Algiers,
139

Ismay, General Hastings Lionel
(later
1st Baron, ‘Pug’),
103

Italy GP’s view on democracy in,
232
, trade interests in North Africa,
232–3
, de Gaulle’s state vitit to (1959),
233
,
see also
Rome

Jackson, Derek marriage to Pamela,
88

Jackson, Hugh,
246

Jackson, Pamela
see
Mitford, Pamela

James, Henry,
40

Jan, Armand,
31

Jay family,
200

Jay, Peter,
200

Jebb, Gladwyn
(later
1st Baron Gladwyn),
94
,
98

Jews Fascist hostility to,
65

John XXIII, Pope (Monseigneur Roncalli),
231–2

Johnson, Paul,
120
,
189
,
207

Josephine, Empress of Napoleon I,
177

Jouvenal, Mme Henri de,
217

Joxe, Louis,
215

Junger, Ernst,
251–2

Karnow, Stanley,
171

Kennedy, Joseph,
93

Keppel, Alice,
198

Khrushchev, Nikita,
239

King, Admiral Ernest,
147

Kipling, Rudyard,
223

Koenig, General Marie Pierre,
146

Koenig, Rhoda,
226

Kraus, Alfred,
163

Kraus, Jacqueline,
163

Lady, The
(magazine) NM writes weekly column for,
36

Lafayette, Madame de
La Princesse de Cleve
,
192

La Guardia, Fiorello,
147–8

Lancaster, (Sir) Osbert,
136

Laroche, Baroness,
59

La Rochefoucauld, Aimery de,
70

Laurent, Jean,
107

Laval, Pierre,
72
,
76
,
217

Lawton, Frederick,
96–7

League of Nations,
73

Leahy, Admiral William D,
147

Lebrun, Albert,
105
,
160

Leclerc de Hautecloque, Général Philippe,
116
,
149
,
150

Lees-Milne, Alvilde,
254

Lees-Milne, James,
21
,
36–7
,
84
,
88
,
131
,
199
,
221

Left Review
,
62

Legentilhomme, Général Paul,
127

LeLuc, Amiral,
112–13

Lequercia, Jose Felix de,
106

Levy, Daniel,
66

Lloyd, George Ambrose, 1st Baron,
69

Lopez, Arturo,
190

Lovelace, Richard,
19
,
208

Lubbock, Adelaide,
131
,
156

Luchaire, François,
240

Ludres, Marquise de,
123

Luizet, Charles,
149

Lyautey, Maréchal Hubert,
48–50
,
68
,
72
, death,
73
,
75

Macmillan, Harold
(later
1st Earl of Stockton),
63
,
122

Maginot Line,
77

Maheu, Renée,
242

Malraux, André,
153
,
171
,
173
,
217
,
240
,
257

Mandel, Georges,
104
,
107

Marais, Le (château),
251
,
253

Margene, Roland de,
217

Marie (NM’s Paris maid),
157–8
,
189
,
254

Marriott, Momo,
189
,
194
,
201

Marshall, General George,
147

Marshall Plan,
172–3

Martin, Yvan,
113

Mass Observation,
119–20

Massigli, Odette,
183

Mattel, Enrico,
233

Maugham, W Somerset,
79

Maunac, Claude,
252

Maunac, François,
177

Maxwell, Sir Alexander,
98

Mayer, René,
212

Mendès-France, Pierre,
213

Mers el-Kebir French fleet attacked by British at,
112–14

Messel, Oliver,
34
,
41

Metcalf, Lady Alexandra (née Curzon, ‘Baba’),
59
,
123
,
206

Metcalfe, Major Edward (‘Fruity’),
123

Miribel, Elisabeth de,
172

Missoffe, François,
246

Mitford, Jessica dislikes country life,
25–7
, on family life with Nancy,
29
, at Swinbrook House,
34–5
, plans to run away,
35
, on homosexuality,
37
, political extremism,
49
, hostility to Fascism,
63
, accompanies NM on holiday to Brittany,
80
, commitment to Communism,
80
, elopement and mariage with Romilly,
80–2
, meets working class members,
87
, and NM’s work in French officers’ club,
130
, visits NM during final illness,
255
,
259
,
Hons and Rebels
,
25

Mitford, Nancy meets GP,
1
,
133–4
, relations with Waugh,
3
,
34
,
40
, on U and non-U,
3
,
193
, passion for GP,
4–5
, family background,
20–1
, birth and upbringing,
23–4
, as countrywoman,
26–8
,
229
, reading,
27
, private family languages (Boudledidge and Honnish),
28
, terrorizes siblings,
28
, attends Hatherop Castle (school),
29
, on cultural tour of Paris and Italy,
29–30
, as debutante,
32–4
, attends Slade as art student,
35
, social restrictions as young woman,
35
, writing ambitions and journalism,
35–6
, falls for Hamish St Clair Erskine,
36–9
,
43–4
, innocence about male homosexuality,
37–8
, marriage prospects,
38
, in Paris with Waugh and Guinnesses,
39–40
, suicide attempt,
39
,
42
, self-portrayal in novel,
42
, breaks with Hamish,
45–6
, engagement and marriage to Peter Rodd,
46
,
51–4
,
255
, political convictions,
49
,
85
,
94
, honeymoon in Rome,
54–7
, sexual experience,
56
, interior decorating,
57
, view of Fascism,
60–2
,
64–7
, collecting,
72
, need for beauty,
77
, marriage difficulties,
79
, moves to Blomfield Road, Maida Vale,
79
, attempts to dissuade Jessica from marriage to Romilly,
81
, condemns Fascism and Hitler,
81
,
87
,
94–5
, hopes for children,
82–3
, pregnancies and
miscarriages,
83
,
85
,
131–2
, hysterectomy,
84
, stoicism,
84–5
, follows Rodd to France to aid Spanish refugees,
86–7
, at outbreak of war,
89
, anti-Americanism,
92–3, 117
,
202
,
225–7
,
229–30
,
241
,
244
, denounces Diana in war,
94–5
,
98–9
, writes to Diana in prison,
99
, supports Free French,
122
, endures London Blitz,
128
, works at White City canteen for French soldiers,
128–9
, marriage to Peter collapses,
130–1
, affair with Desplats-Pilter,
131
, works at Heywood Hill bookshop,
132
, attitude to sex,
134–6
, intimacies with GP,
135–7
, fondness for food,
136
, and GP’s return from Algiers,
143
, visits and settles in Paris after war,
153
,
155–6
, portrayal of characters in fiction,
154
, acquires partnership in Heywood Hill,
155
, wealth from writings,
156
, PG fails to marry,
157
, settles into Rue-Monsieur flat,
157–8
, dedicates
Pursuit of Love
to GP,
159
, enjoys black market privileges in France,
166
, on French elections (October 1945),
166–7
, coolness towards Louise de Vilmonn,
181
, dress and style,
186–7
, relations with GP in Pans,
188–92
, social life and entertaining in Paris,
189–91
, literary output,
192
, translations from French,
192–3
, visit to USSR,
194
, and GP’s infidelities,
196–200
,
207–9
, friendship with SusanMary Alsop,
201
, attitude to adultery,
204
,
207–8
, and GP’s appointment to Rome,
215–16
, loses GP’s affections,
218–19
, meets GP at Orly,
218
, visits GP in Rome,
220
, divorce from Rodd,
221
on civilized values,
224–30
,
243
, and birth of GP’s son,
236
,
243
, accepts no happy ending with GP,
237
, rumour of prospective marriage,
237
, supports Save Venice campaign,
241
, and Waugh’s death,
244–5
, and French student riots (1968),
245–8
, moves to Versailles,
245–6
, and GP’s marriage to Violette,
250
,
253–5
, cancel,
255
, longs for death,
258–9
, awarded Legion d’Honneur,
259
, death,
260
, cremation and grave,
261
,
The Blessing
,
2
,
4
,
18
,
55
,
70
,
72
,
136
,
154
,
179
,
182
,
186
,
193
,
198
,
202–3
,
2–07
,
224
,
226
,
248
, ‘Chic – English, French and American’ (essay),
187–8
,
Christmas Pudding
,
25
,
43–4
,
56
,
187
,
204
,
260
,
Don’t Tell Alfred
,
4
,
166
,
175
,
182
,
201–2
,
217
,
224
,
228
,
241
,
Frederick the Great,
255–6,
Highland Fling
,
40–2
,
56
,
229
,
Love
in a Cold Climate
,
4
,
82
,
188
,
192–3
,
204
,
Pigeon Pie
,
55
,
91–5, 181
,
The Pursuit of Love
,
1
,
13
,
15
,
25
,
28
,
33
,
82
,
133
,
143
,
153
,
154
,
156
,
158
,
186
,
192
,
208
,
226
,
230
,
The Stanleys of Alderley
(ed ),
52
,
226
,
228
,
248
,
The Sun King
,
29
,
259
,
The Two Old Ladies of Eaton Square
,
93
,
Wigs on the Green
,
58
,
60–2
,
64–7.
79
91
.
94
.
248