227, 294, 300, 321 and note
Crébillon fils, 321 note
Critique de l'École des femmes, Molière's, 27
Cupis de Camargo, Ferdinand Joseph de (father of Mlle. de Camargo), descended from "one of the noblest families in Rome," 199;
gives his daughter lessons in dancing, 200;
accompanies her to Rouen, 201;
and to Paris, 202;
exercises unsleeping vigilance over her, 208;
his letter to Cardinal de Fleury after her elopement with the Comte de Melun, 209-211
Cupis de Camargo, Marie-Anne de, birth and parentage, 199, 200;
her precocious talent, 200;
sent to Paris to take lessons from Mlle. Prévost, 200;
première danseuse at Brussels theatre, 201;
goes to Rouen, 201;
engaged at the Paris Opera, 201, 202;
her triumphal début, 202 and note;
her personal appearance, 202, 203;
"abbreviates her skirts," 203, 204;
triumphs over the intrigues of Mlle. Prévost and becomes queen of the Opera, 204-206;
revolutionises the ballet, 206, 207;
patronised by the Duchesse de Villars, 207;
carried off by the Comte de Melun, 208-211;
conceives "une belle passion" for the Marquis de Sourdis, 211, 212;
becomes the mistress of the Comte de Clermont, 212-214;
temporarily retires from the Opera, 214;
does the honours of the Château de Berny, 215;
discarded by the count for Mlle. Le Duc, 216;
becomes the mistress of the Président de Rieux, 216, 217;
receives a magnificent present, 217;
breaks with the président and resumes her liaison with the Marquis de Sourdis, 218;
returns to the Opera, 219;
rivalry between her and Mlle. Sallé, 219;
verses addressed to them by Voltaire, 219;
makes her début as a singer, 220;
definitely retires from the Opera, 220;
her later years and death, 220, 221
Cupis de Camargo, Sophie de, 208, 209-211
D
D——, Baron, lover of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 141
Dancourt, 135
Dangeville, Mlle., inspires Mlle. Clairon with a desire to become an actress, 278-280;
finds it "impossible to live" with Mlle. Clairon, 323
Des Boulmiers, (cited) 171
Desheys introduces Mlle. Clairon to the Comédie-Italienne, 281
Deshoulières, Madame, intrigues against Racine, 103
Desmares, Charlotte, 114, 124, 125, 126
Desmares, Guillaume, father of Marie de Champmeslé, 89
Desmares, Marie: see Chevillet de Champmeslé, Marie
Desmares, Nicolas, brother of Marie de Champmeslé, 89, 114, 126
Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, 69
Desnoiresterres, Gustave, (cited) 229 note, 239, 240 note, 242
Des Œillets, Mlle., 93, 94, 98
Devineresse, La, 78
Diderot, 347
Don Garcie de Navarre, Molière's, 301
Don Juan, Molière's, 65, 78, 79
Donneau de Visé, 8, 27, 78, 79, 99
Dubois, Abbé, (cited) 106
Dubois (actor of the Comédie-Française), his dispute with the surgeon Benoît, 328;
expelled from the Comédie, 329;
temporarily reinstated, 329;
Mlle. Clairon and four of her colleagues decline to act with him, 330;
his partisans create a riot in the theatre, 330, 331;
resigns his place, 334
Dubois, Mlle., 329, 330, 331
Duclos, Mlle., 123, 124, 125, 126
Du Deffand, Marquise, 319
Du Gué, Madame, invites Adrienne Lecouvreur to perform at her hôtel, 131-133
Du Maine, Duchesse, 158
Du Marsais, César, his "Bon, cela!" 148;
gives Adrienne Lecouvreur lessons in elocution, 149
Dumas d'Aigueberre, (cited) 152, 153
Dumesnil, Marie Françoise, a worthy successor to Adrienne Lecouvreur, 275;
her triumph in Mérope, 276;
compared with Mlle. Clairon, 292, 293;
preferred by Louis XV. to the latter, 338
Dumolard, (cited) 242
Du Parc, Mlle., rejects the advances of Molière, 17;
and of Pierre Corneille, 58;
confidante of Armande Béjart, 45;
Racine "experiences with her a sentiment which has the dignity of love," 107
Duras, Duc de, 327, 335, 336
Duronceray, Justine: see Favart, Justine
Duronceray, M. (father of Justine Favart), 228;
a tool in the hands of Maurice de Saxe, 254-256, 258, 259, 261
Duronceray, Madame (mother of Justine Favart), 228
Du Rouvray, M., 283
E
École des femmes, Molière's, 14, 33, 34
École des maris, Molière's, 33
Edwards, Mr. Sutherland, 43 note
El Desden con el Desden, Moreto's, 28
Électre, Crébillon's, 145, 312
Électre, Longpierre's, 33
Électre, Voltaire's, 322
Elizabeth Petrovna, Czarina of Russia, wooed by Maurice de Saxe, 173-175;
invites Mlle. Clairon to St. Petersburg, 320
Élomire hypocondre, Le Boulanger de Chalussay's, 13, 14
Elzevirs, the, print an edition of Élomire hypocondre, 14
Épinay, Madame d', 315
Eugène of Savoy, 135, 169
F
Fameuse Comédienne, La, libel on Armande Béjart, 15, 21, 22, 25, 40-54, 56, 72, 73, 82, 84
Fausse Prude, La, 121 note
Favart, Charles Nicolas Joseph, 272
Favart, Charles Paul, 225 and note
Favart, Charles Simon, his early life, 225, 226;
produces La Chercheuse d'esprit, 227;
director of the Opéra-Comique, 227;
engages Justine Duronceray, 228;
marries her, 229;
invited by Maurice de Saxe to accompany him to Flanders, 231;
celebrates the Marshal's entry into Brussels, 233;
his adventures in Flanders, 234, 235;
announces in verse Maurice's intention to give battle, 237, 238;
his account of the battle of Lawfeld, 244, 245;
learns of his wife's misconduct with the Marshal, 245;
takes her to Brussels, 246;
his letter to her, 247;
prosecuted by the proprietors of the Brussels theatre, at the instigation of the Marshal, 249;
returns to Paris and persuades Justine to leave Maurice, 251;
flies to Strasburg, 251;
Justine's letter to him, 253, 254;
refuses money offered him by the Marshal, 259;
reduced to terrible straits, 265;
returns to Paris, 265;
his verses upon the death of Maurice de Saxe, 266;
regards love as "the greatest of all evils," 267;
tolerates his wife's liaison with the Abbé de Voisenon, 267;
his later works, 267-272;
his admiration for Mlle. Clairon's acting, 294
Favart, Justine, her parentage, 228;
engaged at the Opéra-Comique, 228;
makes her début, 229;
her marriage with Favart, 229 and note, 230;
her success in Les Vendanges de Tempé, 230;
accompanies her husband to Flanders, 232;
the object of a violent passion on the part of Maurice de Saxe, 239, 240;
"possessed by the demon of conjugal love," 240;
Maurice's letter to her, 240, 241;
yields to the importunities of the Marshal, 242, 243 and note;
refuses to continue the liaison, 244;
confesses her misconduct to her husband, 245, 246;
flies to Brussels, 246;
Favart's letter to her, 247;
continues her flight to Paris, 248;
persuaded to resume her intimacy with the Marshal, 249, 250;
again leaves him and declares that "her salvation is dearer to her than all the fortunes in the world," 250;
her successful début at the Comédie-Italienne, 252;
her letter to her husband in hiding at Strasburg, 253;
her father a tool in the hands of Maurice de Saxe, 254-255;
lettre de cachet issued against her, 255;
leaves Paris to join her husband, 256;
arrested, at the instigation of Maurice, and taken to Les Grands-Andelys, 257;
her correspondence with her husband and Maurice de Saxe, 257-259;
removed to a convent at Angers, 259;
further correspondence with the Marshal, 259-262;
exhorted by Mlle. Fleury to "become reasonable," 263;
and by her sister-in-law, Marguerite Favart, to remain inflexible, 264, 265;
terrified into submission to the Marshal, and is released, 265;
returns to Paris, 265;
her relations with the Abbé de Voisenon, 267;
reappears at the Comédie-Italienne, 267;
her extraordinary versatility, 268;
strenuous for a reform in stage costume, 268;
performances by her, 268-270;
retires from the stage, 270;
her last illness and death, 271
Femmes savantes, Molière's, 32
Fénelon, denounces the theatre, 120
Ferriol, Madame de, Adrienne Lecouvreur's letter to, 165-167, 169
Fête de Vénus, Marie de Champmeslé's appearance in, 92
Fils ingrats, Piron's, 155
Fléchier, denounces the theatre, 120
Flemming, Count, intrigues against Maurice de Saxe, 170, 176
Florentin, Le, Adrienne Lecouvreur's performances in, 155, 189
Floridor, 11;
refused ecclesiastical burial, 70
Florimont, 55
Folleville, Président de, his affray with the Marquis de Cony, 282
Fonpré, Mlle., engages Adrienne Lecouvreur to play at Lille, 136
Fontaine, his portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 137-139
Forcalquier, Madame de, 319
Fouché, Paul, (cited) 89
Fournier, Edouard, 9
Fréron, his attack upon Mlle. Clairon, 324-338
Fronsac, Duc de, lover of Mlle. Dubois, 329;
interferes on behalf of her father, 329
G
Gaboriau, Emile, (cited) 37, 43 note, 203, 206, 215
Gaillard de la Bataille, his adventure with Mlle. Clairon, 283, 284;
his libel upon her, 284, 285
Galitzin, Princess, 319, 320
Garrick, Sturtz's letter to him, 296-299;
his opinion of Mlle. Clairon's acting, 299;
commissions Gravelot to engrave a design in honour of Mlle. Clairon, 321;
her letter to him, 333;
offers her a loan, 334 note
Gaultier-Garguille, 4 and note
Gaussin, Jeanne, 275, 292, 306 note
Gautier, Mlle., 281, 285
Geoffroy (chemist), his report on the suspicious lozenges given to the Abbé Bouret, 184 note
George Dandin, Molière's, 33, 35-37, 145
Gesvres, Duc de, 158, 289
Gesvres, Duchesse de, 158
Goldsmith, Oliver, (cited) 295, 296
Goncourt, Edmond de, 298 note, 318
Gozlan, M. Léon, (cited) 236, 240
Grandval, 180 note, 195, 280
Grimarest, (cited) 21, 43 note, 36, 53, 62 note
Grimm, (cited) 203, 204, 247, 315
Gros-Guillaume, 4 and note
Guénégaud, Théâtre, 76 and note, 77, 78, 79
Guérin d'Estriché, marries the widow of Molière, 83-85
Gueullette, M., (cited) 111
Guichard, attempts to poison Lulli, 12, 13;
repeats the accusation of Montfleury against Molière, 13;
accuses Mlle. Molière of immorality, 82 and note
Guiche, Comte de, his supposed relations with Mlle. Molière, 45 and note, 46, 47, 51, 57
Guise, Duc de, 100
H
Hardouin de Péréfixe, Archbishop of Paris, issues an order against Tartuffe, 70
Harlay de Chanvalon, Archbishop of Paris, his conduct in regard to the funeral of Molière, 63, 64, 65, 68
Hawkins, Mr. Frederick, (cited) 292
Henley, Mr. W. E., (cited) 37
Henrietta of England, Duchesse d'Orléans, 12, 27, 96, 97
Hérault (Lieutenant of Police), his conduct in l'affaire Bouret, 181, 182, 184 note, 187
Hermite, Jean Baptiste de l', 19
Hermite, Tristan de l', 19
Hervé, Marie (mother of the Béjarts), 1, 7-10, 20
Histoire de Mademoiselle Cronel, dite Frétillon, libel on Mlle. Clairon, 284, 285
Holstein, Princess of, 240 note, 242
Hôtel de Bourgogne, its amalgamation with the Théâtre Guénégaud, 84
Hugues de Giversac, d', admirer of Mlle. Clairon, 304
I
Impromptu de l'hôtel de Condé, l', 11
Impromptu de Versailles, Molière's, 11, 27, 33, 34, 35
Innocent XII., Pope, 121 note
Iphigénie en Aulide, Racine's, 100-102, 116
J
Jal, Auguste, (cited) 8 note
Journal de Police, (cited) 217, 218
Judith, Boyer's, 114-116
K
Kemble, John, 351
Klinglin, Comte François de, his liaison with Adrienne Lecouvreur, 144, 145
Königsmark, Aurora von (mother of Maurice de Saxe), 169, 170, 174
L
La Chalotais, Marquis de, 158, 163, 164, 168
La Fare, Marquis de, 107
La Fayette, Madame de, 103
La Fontaine, 16, 17 and note, 96, 107;
(cited) 95, 106
La Grange, Charles: see Varlet de la Grange
La Grange-Chancel, 116
La Guérault, Antoine, 89
La Harpe, 324, 325
La Janière, his reports to the Lieutenant of Police on Mlle. Clairon, 285, 286, 287, 301, 303
Lambert, Marquise de, 158, 160
La Morlière, 313 note
La Motte, Mlle., 251, 252
Lancret, his portraits of Mlle. de Camargo, 221
Lang, Mr. Andrew, (cited) 10
Languet de Gergy (curé of Saint-Sulpice), his conduct in regard to the burial of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 192, 194
La Noue, 281, 285, 286, 289
La Paute, 101 note
La Popelinière, 287, 302
Laporte, Abbé de, (cited) 93, 94
Larive, 339, 340, 342, 343, 347
Laroque, 93
Larroumet, M. Gustave, 129;
(cited) 4, 15, 18, 19, 22, 29, 43, 44, 48, 49, 54, 62 note, 81, 111, 122, 123, 136, 138, 143, 157, 190
La Thorillière, 97
Lauraguais, Duc de, 289
Lauzun, Comte (afterwards Duc) de, his supposed liaison with Mlle. Molière, 45-47
Lawfeld, Battle of, 244, 245
Le Boulanger de Chalussay, his Élomire hypocondre, 13, 14
Le Brun, Père, denounces the theatre, 120 note
Lecouvreur, Adrienne, her attraction for French writers, 129;
her birth and parentage, 130;
comes to Paris, 130;