takes part in a performance, by children, at the hôtel of Madame du Gué, 131-133;
and at the Temple, 133, 134;
receives lessons from the actor Le Grand, 135, 136;
accepts an engagement at Lille, 136;
her career as a provincial actress, 136, 137;
her portrait by Charles Coypel and Fontaine, 137-139;
her beauty attested by her contemporaries, 139, 140;
possesses a very susceptible nature, 140, 141;
her early love affairs, 141, 142;
her letters to the actor Clavel, 142-144;
her liaison with the Comte de Klinglin, 144, 145;
her children, 145;
her brilliant début at the Comédie-Française, 145;
her natural style of elocution the principal cause of her success, 146-148;
her debt to César du Marsais, 148, 149;
bitterly opposed by the champions of the old school of declamation, 149-151;
her triumph assured by the support of Baron, 151, 152;
her wonderful by-play, 152;
contemporary criticisms of her acting, 152, 153;
her faults as an actress, 153;
her principal rôles in tragedy, 152, 153;
quarrel between Voltaire and the Chevalier de Rohan in her dressing-room, 154, 155;
does not excel in comedy, 155;
her costumes, 155-157;
her unique social position, 157-159;
complains of the burden of her social duties, 159, 160;
her favourite occupations, 160, 161;
her reputed lovers, 161;
her relations with Voltaire, 161, 162;
resolved to abjure la vie passionnelle, 162, 163;
rejects the advances of La Chalotais, 163, 164;
the object of a violent passion on the part of d'Argental, 164, 165;
her letter to his mother, Madame de Ferriol, 165-168;
becomes the mistress of Maurice de Saxe, 171;
secret of her devotion to him, 172;
disposes of her jewels to assist him in his candidature for the throne of Courland, 175;
unjustly accused by him of infidelity, 177;
charge against the Duchesse de Bouillon of having attempted to poison her, 179-188;
her last appearance on the stage, 188-190;
her death, 190;
the question of poison considered, 190, 191;
the scandal of her burial, 191-195;
her éloge written by Voltaire, 195, 196
Le Duc, Mlle., supplants Mlle, de Camargo in the affections of the Comte de Clermont, 216-218
Ledoux, plays a trick upon Président Lescot, 80-82
Le Grand, 134, 135 and note, 193 note
Le Kain, 156, 292, 313 and note, 330, 336 note
Lemaure, Mlle., 199
Lemontey, 129; (cited) 162, 172, 173
Lenclos, Ninon de, 108-111
Le Roy, Philippe, lover of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 141, 142
Lerys, François Joseph, father of Mlle. Clairon, 276
Le Sage, (cited) 115
Lescot, Président, his adventure with Mlle. Molière, 78-82
Loiseleur, M. Jules, 57;
(cited) 9, 10, 15
Loret, 16
Loo, Jean Baptiste van, 137
Loo, Carle van, 300;
his portrait of Mlle. Clairon, 319 note, 350
Louis XIII., 6, 19
Louis XIV., 12, 27, 64, 84, 114, 206
Louis XV., 338
Louis XVI., 325 note
Löwendal, Maréchal, 231, 247, 265
Lulli, 12, 13, 75, 82
Luxembourg, Duc de, 302
M
Machabées, Le Motte's, 123
Maintenon, Madame de, 121 note
Malade imaginaire, Molière's, 32, 61-63, 71
Mariage forcé, Molière's, 29, 33, 35
Mariamne, Voltaire's, 154
Marie Leczinska, Queen of France, 154, 326
Mariette (danseuse), 204
Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, his propositions rejected by Mlle. Clairon, 287 and note
Markheim, Mr. Gegg, (cited) 53, 54
Marmontel, 269;
his relations with Mlle. Clairon, 307-313;
assists in her apotheosis of Voltaire, 335;
(cited) 243 note, 293 note, 336
Mars, Mlle., 30
Massillon, denounces the theatre, 120
Maugras, M. Gaston, (cited) 120
Maurepas, Comte de, 192
Maximes et refléxions sur la comédie, Bossuet's, 119
Mazarin, Cardinal, 68
Médecin malgré lui, Molière's, 29, 49
Médée, Longpierre's, 116, 300
Meister, Henri, 347
Mélicerte, Molière's, 49, 56, 85
Melun, Comte de, carries off Mlle. de Camargo, 208-211
Mercure de France, (cited) 24, 148, 152, 153, 155, 288, 301
Mercure galant, (cited) 25
Merlin, Père (curé of Saint-Sulpice), refuses ecclesiastical burial to Molière, 63, 68
Meusnier (police-inspector), 229, 255-256, 257;
(cited) 214, 242, 253, 254, 265
Michelet, 139;
(cited) 137, 138
Mignard, Pierre (painter), 53, 60
Misanthrope, Molière's, 29, 31, 33, 37-39, 53, 54, 55, 78
Mithridate, Racine's, 99, 100
Modène, Comte de, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18
Modène, Comtesse de, 5 and note, 9
Molé, 292, 330, 337 and note
Molière, his marriage with Armande Béjart, 3;
abominable charge brought against him by Montfleury père, 11, 12;
the accusation repeated by Guichard in Élomire hypocondre and in La Fameuse Comédienne, 12-15;
question of his relations with Madeleine Béjart considered, 15-20;
becomes the lover of Mlle. de Brie, 17;
allusions to his relations with his wife in his plays, 33-40;
his jealousy, 40;
separated from his wife, 48;
supposed conversation with Chapelle at Auteuil, 49-55;
resumes his liaison with Mlle. de Brie, 55;
but still adores his wife, 55;
reconciled to her, 55, 56;
goes to reside in the Rue de Richelieu, 60;
his health failing, 60, 61;
insists on playing in Malade imaginaire, 62;
his death, 62, 63;
refused ecclesiastical burial, 63;
compromise made, 64;
effect of his Tartuffe upon the attitude of the Church to the theatre, 69, 70;
his funeral, 70-72;
not entirely blameless for his domestic unhappiness, 73, 74;
his genius not fully appreciated by his contemporaries, 83
Molière, Madeleine, 85
Molière, Mlle.: see Béjart, Armande Monaco, Princesse de, 100
Montalant, M. de, marries Madeleine Molière, 85
Montausier, Duc de, 38
Montespan, Madame de, 105, 106, 212
Montfleury, père, his abominable charge against Molière, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 40
Montfleury, fils, 11, 40
Monval, M. Georges, 130, 132, 163;
(cited) 139, 193 and note
Mort de Pompée, La, 156
Mounet-Sully, M., 138
Myesses, the Demoiselles, prosecute Favart, 249, 251
N
Nantes, Mlle. de, 212
Navarre, Mlle. (mistress of Maurice de Saxe), 243 note, 307, 308
Necker, Madame, (cited) 270
Nicole, Père, denounces the theatre, 69
Noury, M., (cited) 90, 113
O
Œdipe, Voltaire's, 189
Oligny, Mlle. d', 325 and note, 326
Orléans, Gaston, Duc d', 6
Orléans, Duchesse d' (Princess Palatine), 125, 213
Orléans, Regent d', 125, 213
Orphelin de la Chine, Voltaire's, 294, 295, 300, 314
P
Paléologue, M. Maurice, (cited) 139, 140, 171, 172
Parabère, Comtesse de, 189 and note
Parfaict, Brothers, 72;
(cited) 25, 95, 111
Parisien, Charles de Champmeslé's, 84, 85, 113
Parmentier, 231, 235, 239
Peterborough, Earl of, 161
Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, 145
Phèdre, Pradon's, 103-105
Phèdre et Hippolyte, Racine's, 102-106, 112, 290, 291, 351
Piron, 158
Poisson, Mlle., (cited) 24, 25
Poisson, Philippe, satirises Adrienne Lecouvreur in l'Actresse nouvelle, 151
Polyeucte, Pierre Corneille's, 135, 136
Pompadour, Madame de, 214, 322
Pont-de-Veyle, Marquis de, 158
Préault (sculptor), 138
Préville, 292
Prévost, Mlle, (danseuse), gives lessons to Mlle. de Camargo, 200;
intrigues against her, 202, 204;
supplanted by her in the affections of the public, 204-206
Princesse d' Élide, Molière's, 28, 29, 45, 46
Prungent (intendant of the Duchess of Brunswick), 161
Psyché, 32 and note, 56, 57, 59, 60
Q
Quinault, Jean Baptiste, 135
Quinaults, the, 150 and note
Quinault-Dufresne, 180 note
R
Rachel, Mlle., 30, 129, 156
Racine, Jean, enraptured at Marie de Champmeslé's rendering of Hermione, 94;
gives her lessons in elocution, 94, 95;
makes her his mistress, 95;
his dramatic duel with Pierre Corneille, 96-98;
his Bajazet, 98;
his Mithridate, 99;
his Iphigénie en Aulide, 100-102;
writes his Phèdre, 102, 103;
the Duchesse de Bouillon and Madame Deshoulières persuade Pradon to enter the lists against him, 103;
production of the two Phèdres, 104;
discreditable tactics of Madame de Bouillon to ruin his play, 104, 105;
he eventually triumphs, 105;
character of his intimacy with Marie de Champmeslé, 107, 108;
breaks off the connection, 111;
probable reasons for his withdrawal from dramatic authorship, 111, 112 and note;
his letter to his son, Louis Racine, on Mlle. de Champmeslé's death, 122, 123
Racine, Louis, 112 note, 122, 123;
(cited) 94, 96
Régnier, 129;
(cited) 138, 148, 150
Revel, Comte de, 107
Riccoboni, (cited) 147
Riccoboni, Madame, (cited) 338
Richelieu, Abbé de, his supposed liaison with Mlle. Molière, 44, 45, 46
Richelieu, Cardinal de, 58, 266
Richelieu, Duc de, 211, 329, 334, 336
Rieux, Président de, 216, 217, 218
Robinet, (cited) 29, 31, 60
Rohault (physician), 53
Rohan, Cardinal de, 82
Rohan, Chevalier de, his quarrel with Voltaire, 154, 155
Rotrou, Jean, 16
Roucoux, Battle of, 238
Roullé, Père, denounces Molière, 70
S
Sainte-Beuve, 129, 179;
(cited) 146, 190, 242
Saint-René Taillandier, M. de, (cited) 242, 266 note
Saint-Marc (police-inspector), his reports to Berryer, 304-306
Sallé, Mlle., 219
Samson, 351
Saxe, Maurice, Maréchal de, his early life, 169, 170;
comes to Paris, 170;
his character, 170;
becomes the lover of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 171, 172;
her beneficial influence over him, 173;
his candidature for the throne of Courland, 173-176;
returns to Paris, 176, 177;
unjustly accuses Adrienne Lecouvreur of infidelity, 177, 178;
the object of an unrequited passion on the part of the Duchesse de Bouillon, 179, 180;
present at Adrienne Lecouvreur's death, 191;
unable to prevent the indignity offered to her remains, 194;
invites Favart to accompany him to Flanders, 231;
his entry into Brussels, 232-234;
orders Favart to announce from the stage his intention to engage the enemy, 236-238;
wins the Battle of Roucoux, 238;
conceives a violent passion for Justine Favart, 240;
his letter to her, 240, 241;
steals Voltaire's verses, 241 and note;
makes Justine his mistress, 242, 243 and note;
discarded by her, 244;
wins the Battle of Lawfeld, 244, 245;
determined to recover his prey, 245;
furious at Justine's escape, 247, 248;
instigates the proprietors of the Brussels Theatre to prosecute Favart, 249;
compels Justine to return to him, but loses her again, 250, 251;
continues his persecution of her husband, 251, 252;
persuades Justine's father to apply for a lettre de cachet against her, 254;
causes her to be arrested and conveyed to Les Grands-Andelys, 257;
his correspondence with her, 258-262;
compels her to submit to him, 264, 265;
his death, 266 and note;
Marmontel's liberties with his seraglio, 307
Scanapiecq, Marie (mother of Mlle. Clairon), 276-281, 282, 284, 285
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, (cited) 39, 135
Seine, Mlle., de, 150
Sévigné, Madame de, (cited) 59, 96, 98, 99, 108, 109, 110
Sévigné, Charles de, 107, 108-111
Sicilien, Molière's, 49
Siège de Calais, De Belloy's, 300, 328-331, 335
Soubise, Prince de, 302
Soulié, Eudore, 9, 15
Sourdis, Marquis de, 211, 212, 218
Sturtz, his letter to Garrick on Mlle. Clairon, 296-299
T
Tallemant des Réaux, 16
Tancrède, Voltaire's, 301
Tartuffe, Molière's, 29, 65, 70, 155
Taschereau, M., 43 note