A

Actrice nouvelle, l', Poisson's, 151

Adrienne Lecouvreur, Scribe and Legouvé's, 129 and note, 182 note

Aiguillon, Duc d', 163

Aiguillon, Duchesse, 319, 337

Aïssé, Mlle., 140, 180, 184 note, 186;
(cited) 180-183, 188-190, 192 note

Alexandre, Racine's, 26, 92

Allainval, Abbé d', 129;
(cited) 134, 145, 199

Amours de Bastien et Bastienne, Justine Favart's performance in, 268

Amphitryon, Molière's, 49, 155

Andromaque, Racine's, 11 note, 93

Anne of Austria, Queen of France, 27

Anne Ivanovna, Duchess of Courland, 173, 174, 175

Anspach, Margrave of, his character and personal appearance, 340, 341;
falls in love with Mlle. Clairon and invites her to Anspach, 341;
"the sweetest and kindest of beings," 342;
discards Mlle. Clairon for Lady Craven, 344-346

Anspach, Margravine of, 340, 341, 344, 345, 346.

Antiochus et Cléopatre, Deschamps', 154

Argental, d', 164-168, 169, 193 note

Ariane, Mlle. de Champmeslé's performance in, 99.

Arles, Council of, excludes the actor from the Sacraments, 66, 67

Attila, Pierre Corneille's, 26, 97 note

Aubry, Sebastian, 13

Augustus II., Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, 169, 170, 174, 176

Aunillon, Abbé, 179.

Avare, Molière's, 78


B

Bachaumont, (cited) 293 note, 328, 335 note, 337 note

Bajazet, 98, 337.

Balicourt, Mlle., 228 and note

Barbier, (cited) 161, 213, 301

Barbier d'Aucour, 102

Bauffremont, Marquis de, 318

Baron, Michel, 56-58, 63, 75, 94, 147, 151, 152, 159

Bayle, 8, 41

Bazin, 9, 44

Beaumarchais, 325

Beaumenard, Mlle., mistress of Maurice de Saxe, 239, 243 note

Beffara, 9, 15, 211 note

Béjart, Armande, her marriage with Molière, 3;
controversy concerning her parentage, 7-20;
accompanies the Illustre Théâtre to the provinces, 20;
her education, 21;
her personal appearance, 22-25;
her gifts as an actress, 25, 26;
her début, 27;
plays before the Court in the Impromptu de Versailles, 27;
and during Les Plaisirs de l'Ile enchantée, 27-29;
bears Molière a son, 27;
her rendering of the part of Célimène in the Misanthrope, 29-31;
other performances by her, 31, 32;
her moral conduct considered, 32-40;
charges brought against her in La Fameuse Comédienne, 40-48;
temporarily separated from her husband, 48-54;
her supposed liaison with Baron, 56-58;
her platonic friendship with Pierre Corneille, 58, 59;
birth of her second son, 60;
endeavours to dissuade Molière from playing in the Malade imaginaire, 62;
goes to find a priest to administer the last Sacraments to her husband, 63;
her appeal to the Archbishop of Paris, 63, 64;
her interview with Louis XIV. at Saint-Germain, 64;
throws money among the crowd on the day of Molière's funeral, 71;
causes a fire to be lighted on his grave, 72;
conclusion as to her moral conduct, 72, 73;
resumes her place in the company three days after her husband's death, 74 and note;
secures the Théâtre Guénégaud, 77, 78;
her adventure with Président Lescot, 79-82;
libelled by Guichard, 82 and note;
marries Guérin d'Estriché, 83, 84;
her later years, 84, 85

Béjart, Bénigne Madeleine, 10, 19

Béjart, Geneviève, 7, 15

Béjart, Joseph pére, 3, 7, 9, 10

Béjart, Joseph fils, 4, 10, 15, 75

Béjart, Louis, 15

Béjart, Madeleine, her parentage, 34;
becomes an actress, 4, 5;
has a daughter by the Comte de Modène, 5, 6;
commonly believed to be the mother of Armande Béjart, 7-10;
and to have been the mistress of Molière, 11;
hideous accusation of Montfleury, 11, 12;
repeated by Guichard, Le Boulanger de Chalussay, and in La Fameuse Comédienne, 12-15;
joins the Illustre Théâtre, 15;
her talent as an actress and personal appearance, 16;
question as to her relations with Molière considered, 17-20;
promotes the marriage between Molière and Armande, 21, 22

Bellerose, 76 note

Benoît (surgeon), his dispute with Dubois of the Comédie-Française, 328, 329

Bérénice, Racine's, 96, 97, 98

Bergheick, Comte de, lover of Mlle. Clairon, 281

Bernard, Samuel, 216

Bernhardt, Madame Sarah, 138

Berri, Duchesse de, 205

Berryer, Lieutenant of Police, 285, 304, 305, 306, 318

Besenval, Baron de, Mlle. Clairon's love-letters to him, 303

Bimorel, Madame de, 282, 283, 285

Blainville, expelled from the Comédie-Française, 329

Blondi, dancing-master, 206

Blot, 42

Boileau-Despréaux, 60, 71, 100, 103, 108, 109, 116;
(cited) 102

Boileau-Puimorin, 60

Bossuet, denounces the plays of Molière, 70;
his Maximes et réflexions sur la comédie, 119, 120

Botte de la Barondière, Père, insists on Brécourt renouncing the stage, 117 and note

Bouillon (Louise Françoise de Lorraine), Duchesse de, enamoured of Maurice de Saxe, 179;
her personal appearance, 179 note;
accused by the Abbé Bouret of having engaged him to poison Adrienne Lecouvreur, 179-188;
suspected of having caused the death of the actress, 188-190;
consideration of this charge, 190, 191;
discarded by the Comte de Clermont for Mlle. de Camargo, 213

Bouillon (Marie-Anne Mancini), Duchesse de, intrigues to ruin Racine's Phèdre, 103-105

Bourdaloue, Père, preaches against Tartuffe, 70;
denounces the theatre, 120

Bouret, Abbé, accuses the Duchesse de Bouillon of having engaged him to poison Adrienne Lecouvreur, 179-184;
sent to Saint-Lazare, 184;
released, 184;
rearrested, 185;
persists in his accusation, 186;
but finally recants, 187;
set at liberty and disappears, 187

Bourgeois gentilhomme, Molière's, 23, 24, 97 note

Bouteville, Duc de, 302

Bouty, Marie (mother of Mlle. de Champmeslé), 130

Boyer, Abbé, 92, 114, 115, 153

Brécourt, compelled by the curé of Saint-Sulpice to renounce his profession, 117 and note

Breuze de la Martinière, 8

Brie, Mlle, de, joins the Illustre Théâtre, 17;
becomes Molière's mistress, 17;
resides in the Béjart's house, 48;
resumes her intimacy with Molière, 55, 56;
jealousy between her and Mlle. Molière, 73

Brizard, 330

Brossette, (cited) 17, 100

Brotok, Comte de, ruined by Mlle. Clairon, 303

By, Chevalier de, lover of Mlle. Clairon, 286


C

Caffaro, Père, his Lettre d'un Théologien, in defence of the theatrical profession, 119, 120

Cahusac, (cited) 203

Calandrini, Madame, 180

Camargo, Marie-Anne de: see Cupis de Camargo

Cartouche (brigand), 135

Cartouche, ou les voleurs, Le Grand's, 135

Casanova, (cited) 220

Castelnau, Marquis de, 265

Castil-Blaze, (cited) 200, 208

Champmeslé, Charles de: see Chevillet de Champmeslé

Champmeslé, Marie de: see Chevillet de Champmeslé

Chantilly, Mlle.: see Favart, Justine

Chapelle, 42, 49-52, 53, 54, 71, 98

Chappuzeau, Samuel, (cited) 76 note, 77

Chardon, M. Henri, (cited) 4, 18, 19

Châteauroux, Duchesse de, 215, 289

Chevillet de Champmeslé, Charles,
runs away from home to become an actor, 90, 91;
marries Marie Desmares, 91;
joins the Théâtre du Marais, 91;
leaves it for the Hôtel de Bourgogne, 93;
a complacent husband, 93;
on the best of terms with his wife's admirers, 108;
joins the Théâtre Guénégaud, 113;
his Parisien, 113;
singular incident connected with his death, 125, 126

Chevillet de Champmeslé, Marie,
birth and parentage, 89;
becomes an actress and makes her début at Rouen, 90;
marries Charles de Champmeslé, 91;
comes to Paris with her husband, 91;
joins the Théâtre du Marais, 91;
her first successes, 92;
leaves the Marais for the Hôtel de Bourgogne, 93;
her triumph as Hermione in Andromaque, 93;
her gifts as an actress, 94, 95;
her personal appearance, 95, 96;
becomes the mistress of Racine, 96;
her successes in Bérénice, 97;
in Bajazet, 98;
in Ariane, 99;
in Mithridate, 99;
in Iphigénie en Aulide, 100-102;
in Phèdre, 106;
her house "the rendezvous of all persons of distinction in both Court and town," 107;
unfaithful to Racine, 107, 108;
her relations with Charles de Sévigné, 108-110;
liaison with the Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, 111;
discarded by Racine, 111;
her impersonation of Queen Elizabeth in the Comte d'Essex, 113;
joins the Théâtre Guénégaud, 113;
one of the original sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, 113;
secures her brother Nicolas's admission sans début, 114;
later performances by her, 114-116;
falls ill and retires from stage, 116;
with difficulty induced to renounce her profession, 122;
dies, 122;
two letters of Racine on her death, 122, 123;
her pupils, Mlles. Duclos and Charlotte Desmares, 123-125

Chevreuse, Duchesse de, 246, 247

Choiseul, Duc de, 327

Christian VII., King of Denmark, 337

Cindré, Marquis de, lover of Mlle. Clairon, 306

Circé, Thomas Corneille's, 78

Clairon, Mlle., her parentage, 276;
her birth, 276, 277;
comes with her mother to Paris, 277;
her account of how she was led to become an actress, 278-281;
makes her début at the Comédie-Italienne, 281;
accepts an engagement at Rouen, 281;
her life there, 282, 283;
adventure with Gaillard de la Bataille, 283, 284;
Histoire de Mademoiselle Cronel, dite Frétillon, 284, 285;
her mother tries to coerce her into marriage, 285;
"three rival warriors contending for her heart," 286;
rejects the proposals of "my lord" Marlborough, 287;
returns to Paris and joins the Opera, 287;
leaves the Opera for the Comédie-Française, 288;
her admission opposed by certain members of the troupe, 289;
insists on making her début in the part of Phèdre, 289, 290;
her brilliant success, 290, 291;
her personal appearance, 291;
her remarkable gifts as an actress, 293;
testimony of Favart, 294;
of Collé, 294, 295;
of Hérault de Séchelles, 295;
of Oliver Goldsmith, 295, 296;
of Sturtz, 296-299;
of Garrick, 299, 300;
performances by her, 300, 301;
her brilliant success as Aménaïde in Tancrède, 301;
her lovers, 301-307;
her liaison with Marmontel, 307-309;
changes her style of acting, 309-313;
brings about a reform in stage costume, 313-314;
an indefatigable student of everything connected with her art, 314-316;
continuing her career of gallantry, 317-318;
conceives a genuine passion for the Comte de Valbelle, 318, 319;
her social success, 319 and note;
her portrait painted by Carle van Loo, 319 and note, 320;
declines an offer to take up her residence at St. Petersburg, 320, 321;
Garrick commissions an engraving of her "in all the attributes of Tragedy," 321;
gold medal struck in her honour, 322;
her pride and arrogance, 322, 323;
has the interests of her profession sincerely at heart, 323, 324;
endeavours to relieve the stage from the ban of the Church, 324;
attacked by Fréron, in the Année littéraire, 324-328;
l'affaire Dubois, 328-331;
sent to For l'Évêque, 331, 332;
her letter to Garrick, 332, 333;
visits Voltaire at Ferney, 334, 335;
enthusiastically acclaimed by the pit at Marseilles, 335;
retires from the Comédie-Française, 335, 336;
her life after her retirement, 336, 337;
plays before the King of Denmark, 337, 338;
and at Versailles, 338;
her correspondence with her pupil Larive, 339, 340;
accompanies the Margrave of Anspach to Germany, 341;
her life at Anspach, 341-344;
supplanted by Lady Craven in the affections of the Margrave, 344-346;
takes up her residence at Issy, 346, 347;
publication of her Mémoires, 347;
her last years and death, 349-351;
removal of her remains from Vaugirard to Père-Lachaise in 1837, 351, 352

Clavel, Adrienne Lecouvreur's letters to him, 142-145

Clement XI., Pope, declines to interfere between the Church and the theatrical profession, 121 note

Clermont, Comte de, his character, 212;
becomes the lover of Mlle. de Camargo, 213;
can refuse her nothing, 214;
insists on her quitting the stage, 214;
appointed abbot of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 215;
installs Mlle. de Camargo at the Château de Berny, 215;
discards her for Mlle. Le Duc, 216;
presents his new enchantress with a magnificent equipage, 217, 218;
makes Mlle. de Camargo an allowance, 220

Clermont-Tonnerre, Comte de, one of the admirers of Mlle. de Champmeslé, 107, 108, 111

Cochin, Charles Nicolas fils, his drawing of Justine Favart, 228 note

Colbert, 17 note, 77

Collé, (cited) 152, 153, 216 and note, 252 note, 294, 295, 301, 314, 322 note

Comédie-Française, its foundation, 113

Comte d'Essex, Thomas Corneille's, 153, 156

Conti, Prince de, 69

Coraline, Mlle., shocked at the conduct of Justine Favart, 256

Corneille, Pierre, 17, 26, 32 note, 58, 59, 96, 97 and note, 114, 131, 132, 266, 294

Corneille, Thomas, 78, 92, 112

Coulanges, Madame de, (cited) 99

Couvreur, Robert, father of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 130, 131

Couvrigny, Père de (chaplain to the Bastille), his letter to the Lieutenant of Police, 186

Coypel, Charles, his portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 142-145

Crébillon père, 124, 145,