Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Soiled Sheets (Les Beaux draps), 1941. Pp. 1-54, 55-104, Bibliography.
Translated by Gordon LeCompte Bolmer (b. 1958). Translation in progress.
This translation is intended primarily for academic research and citation.
LFC: Sheets, Index
 

INDEX

to Soiled Sheets (Les Beaux draps)

 
 
1580 (year): 27.

1914 (year): 11, 13, 21, 86.

1918 (year): 11.

1936, May of: 18 (obscure allusion), 38, 58, 94 (Popular Front).

1939 (year): 19, 44.

1940 (year): 19, 44.

1941, 2 Feb.: 19; year: 4, 14, 38.

1942 (year): 58.

Abyss(es): 47, 55, 70, 103.

Achilles: 14.

Albion (England): 22.

America, United States, USA: 18, 19, 27, 53-4.

anthem, credo, "Credo" (song): 54.

Antilles: 17.

Anti-machine: 79. Also see: machine.

anti-Semitic, anti-Semitism: 56-7.

Apocalypse: 47.

Ariel (and Caliban): 57, 90.

Army, French: 7-9, 11, 21, 23, 49, 96; of Yids: 23.

Arthur, King: 38.

Aryan(s): 15, 30-1, 38, 43-4, 51, 57, 60, 73, 93.

Bank of France: 86.

Banks (major banks, central banks): 17, 26, 49-51, 52 (Jewish Bank), 65, 68.
     Also see: Bank of France, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Bank.

Barbizol-Cudégonde (née Schwob-Arzincourt), Sarah: 30.

Bardia: 10.

Bastille: 40, 49.

Benda, Julien: 30.

Berber(s): 35, 72.

Bergougnot, Jules (fic.): 34.

Bernard, Samuel: 37.

"Bidasse": 27, 49.

Blum, Léon: 28, 74.

B'nai B'rith: 29.

Bois de Boulogne (park in Paris): 22, 94.

Bolshevik(s): 52.

Boston: 33.

Bourgeois, bourgeoisie: 13, 24, 37, 42, 46-7, 52-3, 57-9, 64-6, 88, 96.

Boy Scouts: 23.

Brain Trusts: 30.

Broadway: 18.

Bruyères, pont de: 99.

Cadet, rue: 30.

Cadets (Party): 52.

Caliban (and Ariel): 57, 90.

Canada: 17.

Capital, Capitalism: 38, 57-8, 72, 76.

"Carmagnole" (song): 54.

Carthage: 18.

Charlemagne: 7.

China: 102.

Chinese (people): 34, 73.

Church (Roman Catholic), The: 43.

Churchill, Winston: 38.

Christmas: 57. Also see: Father Christmas.

Clemenceau, Georges: 21.

Comintern, The: 53, 68.

communism: 51, 55, 57, 59, 66-7, 69, 73, 94-5.

communist(s), communistic: 40, 74.

continent: 104; the Continent (of Europe): 18, 52.

Corsica: 17.

Courbevoie: 7.

Cromwell, Oliver: 51.

Dakar: 17.

Daladier, Édouard: 21, 74.

Danton: 51.

De Gaulle, Charles, Gen.: 16, 20, 22, 24, 39, 56.

Delambre, rue: 52.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: 54.

Dreyfus, Alfred: 38, 74.

Drumont, Édouard: 43.

Dumas, Alexandre, père: 28.

Dunkirk: 17.

Durand: 51; Durand-Kahn: 30.

Durham, Archbishop [sic] of: 84.

Earth: 9, 27, 32, 38, 40, 46, 51, 54, 68, 77, 96; Heaven and E.: 33, 51.
     Also see: the Wretched of the Earth.

Eden, Anthony: 20.

l'Élysée (palace): 49.

Embassy, Soviet, in Paris: 34.

England: 22 (Albion), 72.

Englishmen: 17, 22, 72.

Épinal: 14.

Europe (by name): 21, 25, 35, 70, 77.

Family Code (Statute): 72-3.

Father Christmas: 20, 51. Also see: Christmas.

Ferdonnet, Paul: 22.

Fifth Column: 7, 38.

Finland: 53.

France: passim.

Franco, Francisco: 38.

Freemasons, Masons, Lodges: 15, 25-6, 29-30, 41, 45, 48, 52-3, 57, 68, 72, 90, 93.

Frenchmen: passim.

Germans: 17, 23, 26, 56, 74, 102.

Germany: 21, 35, 74.

glory (facetious reference): 72, et passim.

Gobineau, Count: 43, 60.

goldsmiths: 29.

Goths: 38.

Grand Guignol: 39.

Grenelle, rue de: 34.

Haile Selassie (aka Ras Tafari): 14.

Hammam: 29.

Hammer and Sickle: 54.

Hanoi: 33.

Hanover: 7.

Harlem (N.Y.C.): 19.

Heaven, and Earth: 33, 51; from H. to Hell: 51; the Heavens: 68.

Helsinki (Helsingfors): 53.

Hiram: 32.

Hitler, Adolf: 38.

Hospital(s), asylum(s): 70, 78, 101, 102.

humanitarianism: 45, 60.

Humanity: 78.

hyperbolic: 48, 53.

imposture: 51, 70, 94.

Indies (West): 17.

Indochina: 102.

Irkutsk ("Irkousk"): 54.

Isaac: 51 (Kingdom of), 54.

Italian(s): 10 ("Ritals"), 61.

Japanese (Nipponese): 33-4.

Jehovah: 54.

Jesuits: 28.

Jesus: 43, 66.

Jew(s), Jewishness: passim.

Kabbala: 54-5, 104.

Kalmuk(s): 52, 68.

Kamchatka: 22, 33, 81.

Kerensky, Alexander: 52.

Kéril, Henri de: 74.

Kremlin: 7.

Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Bank: 51-4.

Lamartine: 84.

Lamas (Buddhist): 22.

laughing gas: 17.

League of Nations (S.D.N.): 29.

Lecache, Bernard: 74.

Legion of Honor: 24.

Lenin, V. I.: 50-3.

Libreville (Gabon): 17.

Lille, rue de: 34.

Loire (River): 11.

London: 17, 49.

Lords, House of: 17.

Lorraine: 7.

Louis XIV: 14, 20, 49.

Louis XV: 18.

Louis XVI: 33.

Louisiana: 33.

machine: 45, 52, 70-1, 79-80. Also see: Anti-machine.

Madonna, The: 14.

Magenta, boulevard: 16.

Maginot Line: 12, 21.

Mammon: 30.

Mandel, Georges: 20-1, 74.

Marat, J.-P.: 51.

Marchandeau, Paul: 20.

Marie-Antoinette: 49.

Marx Brothers: 18.

Marx, Karl: 69. See also: Marxism.

Marxism: 51, 73. See also: Marx, Karl.

Mascuraud Committee, The: 28.

mead, hydromel: 54.

(n) Mendoza: 17.

Menshevik(s): 52.

Mercadier, Marie (fic.): 34.

Mers-el-Kebir: 17.

Mesmer, Franz: 79.

Meuse (River): 11, 16.

Mexico: 68.

Michelangelo: 30.

Michelet, Jules: 60.

military tribunals (Russian revolutionary): 52.

Modano: 10.

monarchy, monarchism: 28, 53, 68.

Montaigne, Michel de: 30, 61.

Montandon, Georges: 60.

Moon, The: 18, 22, 27, 57, 68, 73; moons: 50, 104.

Moses: 55.

Münster: 7.

Napoleon I: 7, 17.

Narvik: 9.

Negroid(s): 18, 30, 94.

Neuf, pont: 27.

Neva (River): 54.

Newfoundland: 17.

New York City: 19, 51-3.

New York Times: 51.

Nicholas II (or "Romanov"): 52-4.

Nigger(s): 19, 55, 79, 94.

Nouveaux-Temps, les: 19.

Opera, Paris, The: 26, 30, 48-9, 104.

Ostende: 7, 33.

Ostrogoths: 15.

Palatinate: 7.

Palestine: 22, 55, 73.

Papal Bulls: 45.

Paris, Parisian: 1-2 & 4 (pub. info.), 26, 27, 29, 33, 52, 99-104 (implied).

Paris-Soir: 8, 74.

pederastic: 35.

Pernod: 7.

Persia (Iran): 22.

Petit Palais: 30.

Petrograd, St. Petersburg, Leningrad: 52, 54.

Phalansteries (Fourierist): 28.

Pharaoh: 55.

Poincaré, Raymond: 20.

poison gas: 17.

Poland: 7, 22.

Polichinel (Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch): 33.

Pope, The: 45.

Popular Front: 94.

prayer wheel(s): 22.

progress, Progress: 38, 48, 52-3, 67-8, 78.

proportional representation: 28.

pyramid schemes: 63.

Queen of Spades, The: 52.

"Radicals" (Radicaux de Gauche, party): 28.

Ras Tafari (aka Haile Selassie): 14.

Rastignac, Eugène de, (fic.): 29.

Reynaud, Paul: 14, 20-1, 28.

Rivoli, rue de: 7.

Romanov (i.e. Nicholas II): 52-4.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 18, 84.

rosewood: 27, 38, 47, 49.

(n) Rothschild: 37, 51.

Russia, Russian(s): 7, 52-4, 72, 99. Also see: Bolshevik(s), Kalmuk(s), Lenin, Sanhedrin: 53.

Siberia: 54.

Saint-Germain (faubourg): 34.

Sainte Odile: 20.

Samson: 37.

Santo Domingo (Domican Republic): 55.

Schiff, Jacob: 52.

Seine (River): 99.

Shell, Royal Dutch (oil company): 14, 49.

Siam (Thailand): 34.

Siamese twins: 96.

Sicily: 10.

Simpson, Wallis, Mrs.: 17.

Smyrna: 33.

Social Insurance: 28, 64, 67.

social justice: 55, 64.

Sorbonne: 26, 30.

Soviets: 34 (Embassy, in Paris), 68. Also see: Bolshevik(s), Kalmuk(s), Lenin, Russia/Russian(s), Soviets, Trotsky.

Stockholm: 52-3.

Suez (Bank Indo-): 24.

Surcy-sur-Loing: 32.

Tabarin: 27.

Tabouis, Geneviève: 20.

Talmud: 51, 61.

Tatars: 15, 94.

Tartufe, tartufe (adj.): 11, 13, 15, 25, 57, 74.

Taylorism: 63.

Ten Days that Shook the World (Eisenstein film): 52.

Tiber (River): 10.

Torah: 51.

Trotsky, Leon: 37, 50-3.

trusts: 57, 63, 78, 86.

Tzar: 52-4.

Urals: 36.

Valérien, Mont: 99.

Varennes, Escape to: 51.

Verdun (Battles of): 72.

Vichy: 30.

Volga Boatmen: 48, 51.

Vosges: 20.

Wallachians: 15.

Warburg, Paul: 51-4.

Washington, D.C.: 53.

Washington, George: 18.

Wendel (family): 38, 57.

Wretched of the Earth, the: 38, 46, 51, 73.

Xxx, General: 54.

 
 

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Soiled Sheets (Les Beaux draps), 1941. Pp. 1-54, 55-104, Bibliography.
Translated by Gordon LeCompte Bolmer (b. 1958). Translation in progress.
This translation is intended primarily for academic research and citation.
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