“Thus perished,” says M. Adolphe Jullien, “the greatest lyric _tragédienne_ whom France has possessed. But she did not wholly die: the recollection of her remains graven in the mind of her admirers, and she left behind her a luminous trace of her passage across the stage of the Opera. Her generous influence continued to make itself felt throughout long years; her triumphs excited many ambitions, inflamed many resolutions. She remained an object of admiration and emulation for all the artistes, for those who had seen her, as for those who, in later times, knew her only by renown. She united, in fact, in the highest degree, two qualities usually disconnected: the rarest talent of the singer and the greatest art of the _tragédienne_. She was in every sense of the word an artiste of genius.”[216] INDEX A _Adèle de Ponthieu_, incident during a representation of, 69 Aiguillon, Duc d’, his _galanterie_ with Mlle. Raucourt, 159 _Alceste_, Gluck’s, 69-75, 78 Alembert, d’, 4, 79, 96, 159 _Alexis et Justine_, Madame Dugazon’s appearance in, 210 Allard, Mlle, (_danseuse_), 105, 265 Alleaume (notary), Sophie Arnould’s letters to him, 80-82 Alopeus (Swedish Minister in London), 330 Amelot (Minister of the King’s Household), 292, 294, 300, 305, 312, 313, 315, 322 _Amis des Lois, les_, scene during the performance of, 183 _Amours des Dieux, les_, Sophie Arnould’s appearance in, 15 Antraigues, Comte d’, his ancestry, 320; his early life, 321; his political writings, 321; changes his politics, 321; his relations with Madame Saint-Huberty, 322; his letter to her, 322; takes refuge in Switzerland, 326; joined by Madame Saint-Huberty, 326; marries her secretly, 327; an active agent of the counter-revolution, 328 and note; arrested at Trieste, 328; escapes from Milan, 329; establishes himself with his wife in England, 330; employed by the Foreign Office, 330; assassinated, with his wife, by their Piedmontese servant, Lorenzo, 331-337; inquest upon, 337-343 Antraigues, Comtesse: d’, _see_ Saint-Huberty, Madame _Ariane dans l’Île de Naxos_, Madame Saint-Huberty’s appearance in, 286, 287, 299, 300 _Armide_, Gluck’s, 107, 266, 275, 313, 317 Arnaud, Abbé, 46 Arnault, 257 Arnould (daughter of Sophie Arnould), Alexandrine Sophie, birth, 43; marries André de Murville, 82, 83; her character, 83 and note; ill-treated by her husband, 83, 84; wishes to join the Opera, 84; divorces her husband and marries again, 89 Arnould, Jean (father of Sophie Arnould), a worthy man, 4; declines to force his daughter to marry M. de Malézieux, 13; in financial straits, 21; takes the Hôtel de Lisieux, 21; deceived by the Comte de Lauraguais, 21-23; reconciled to his daughter after her elopement, 24