Lenormant d’Etioles, festival given by, i. 268 gives festival, i. 142 second marriage of, i. 201 _Les deux Amis_, i. 157 _Le Temple_, chosen as refuge by Gudin, ii. 177 prison of, ii. 232 _Lettres de Cachet_, Beaumarchais a victim of, i. 190 Libel, against Mme. du Barry destroyed, i. 253 against Queen destroyed, i. 256 Lindet, Robert, makes appeal for Beaumarchais, ii. 270 Lintilhac, Eugène, _Beaumarchais et ses œuvres_, i. 36 Living, high cost of, after the terror, ii. 266ff. Loménie, Louis de, _Life and Times of Beaumarchais_, i. 36 Louis XV., i. 56, ii. 14 death of, i. 253 dies, i. 242 _le grand projet de_, ii. 18 occult diplomacy of, i. 249 parliament of, destroyed by fifteen louis, i. 231 Louis XVI., ascends throne, i. 254 hesitates, ii. 32 inflicts outrage without motive on Beaumarchais, ii. 230 refuses to commit himself regarding aid to America, ii. 53 replies in own hand writing to questions of Beaumarchais, ii. 52f. seeks to undo wrong done Beaumarchais, ii. 231 won over to American cause, ii. 70 _Mariage de Figaro, Le_, i. 39 Beaumarchais composes, ii. 212 Monologue of, ii. 223 permission given to play, ii. 215 permission revoked, ii. 215 proceeds go to charity, ii. 226 returns from, ii. 226 story of, ii. 221 Marie-Antoinette, attacked in libel, i. 256 in the Temple, ii. 232 protectress of Beaumarchais, i. 267 takes the part of Rosine, i. 283 Marie-Thérèse, Empress of Austria, receives Beaumarchais, i. 263 Marmontel, i. 173 Maupeou, Chancellor, dissolves parliaments, i. 174 the parliament, i. 174 the parliament, abolished, i. 254 the parliament, Beaumarchais called before, i. 177 the parliament, judges Beaumarchais, i. 240 the parliament, sentence of, annulled, ii. 100 the parliament, supported by Voltaire, i. 219 Maurepas, le Comte de, Beaumarchais works for, ii. 113 Beaumarchais addresses memoir to, ii. 127ff. promises letters-patent, ii. 96 uses Beaumarchais as political agent, ii. 111 Meinières, Madame de, enchanted by memoirs of Beaumarchais, i. 232f. compares Beaumarchais to Demosthenes, Cicero, etc., i. 233 Memoir, Beaumarchais addresses new, to King, ii. 42ff. Memoirs of Beaumarchais praised by Mme. de Meinières, i. 232f. read by Goethe, i. 230 read by Voltaire, i. 219 read in Philadelphia, i. 231 _Mémoire justicative de Beaumarchais_, ii. 237f. Ménard, Mlle, de, _femme d’esprit_, i. 173 painted by Greuze, i. 179 takes refuge in convent, i. 191 Mercantile project outlined to King by Beaumarchais, ii. 78ff. Mesdames, i. 59ff., 84, 151 Metz, famous dinner at, i. 35 Meudon, i. 63