Conti, Princesse de, takes Sophie Arnould to live with her, 5; suggests that she shall sing at the Abbey of Panthémont in Holy Week, 7; embarrassed by Madame de Pompadour’s desire to see Sophie, 9; endeavours to conceal Sophie in a convent, 11, 12; encourages the suit of the Chevalier de Malézieux, 12, 13 _Cour du Roi Pétaud, la_, Comte de Lauraguais, 25, 26 and note _Courtisanes, les_, anecdote about its rejection by the Comédie-Française, 228, 229; Mlle. Contat’s performance in, 229 Crébillon _fils_, 46 D Dalayrac (composer), 210, 211, 212, 213, 217 _Danaïdes_, Salieri’s, 308, 309 Dangeville, Mlle., 226, 239 _Dardanus_, Sophie Arnould’s performance in, 42, 50, 51 Dauberval (dancer), one of the lovers of Mlle. Guimard, 113 note Dauvergne (director of the Opera), 126, 127, 311, 313, 315, 318, 322, 324, 325 David, Jaques Louis (painter), Mlle. Guimard’s kindness to him, 118, 119 Dervieux, Mlle., 90, 116, 121 Desentelles (Intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs), 245 Des Essarts (actor), 183 Desfaucherets, 257 Despréaux, Jean Étienne, his parody of _Ernelinde_ performed at Mlle. Guimard’s hôtel in the Chaussée-d’Antin, 122; and before the Court at Choisy, 122; receives a pension from Louis XVI., 122; marries Mlle. Guimard, 136, 137; his career, 136 note; loses his pensions at the Revolution, 138; becomes stage-manager at the Opera, 138; resigns his post, 138; his _Passe-Temps_, 139; celebrates his wife’s charms in verse, 139; appointed inspector of the Opera and the theatre of the Tuileries, 139; dances with his wife, 140 Desnoiresterres, Gustave (cited), 58, 71 _Devin du Village_, Sophie Arnould’s performance in, 54 note Devismes (director of the Opera), 282 Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, her friendship for Mlle. Guimard, 135 _Deux Pages, les_, 246-249 Dezède (composer), 247, 248 Diderot, 4, (cited) 27, 28, 35, 36 _Didon_, Le Franc de Pompignan’s, 148, 149, 151, 152, 171, 172 _Didon_, Piccini’s, 296-306, 307, 308, 309, 312 Douglas, Mr. R. B. (cited), 14, 54, 66, 88, 97 Dodé de Jousserand, libels the administration of the Opera, 276 Dorat (poet), 46, 124, 125 Drais, Claude (goldsmith), marries the daughter of Mlle. Guimard and La Borde, 109, 110 Du Barry, Madame, “unexampled audacity” of Sophie Arnould towards, 49 and note; does not attend the first performance of _Iphigénie en Aulide_, 64; compared with Mlle. Guimard, 114; sends two kisses to Voltaire, 121; presents Mlle. Raucourt with a _robe de théâtre_, 152 Dubois, Antoine (surgeon), 260 Ducis, his adaptations of Shakespeare, 258 and note Duclos, 79 Du Hausset (_femme de chambre_ to Madame de Pompadour), 9 Dumesnil, Mlle., 150, 161 Duplant, Mlle., 73 note Duranceray, Mlle., 266, 277 Duras, Duc de, his quarrel with Mlle. Sainval the elder, 169, 170; causes those who hiss Mlle. Raucourt to be arrested, 173; satirised in _La Vision du prophète Daniel_, 176 Duthé, Mlle., 121