Fouquier-Tinville, 184, 185 Fragonard (painter) plays a practical joke on Mlle. Guimard, 119 Francœur (musician), 59, 138 Frederick the Great, 179, 248, 249 Fréron, 14, 230 Fronsac, Duc de, 21, 232 G Gaboriau Émile, (cited) 114, 148, 198, 232, 282, 288, 303, 308 Gaillard, Gabriel Henri, his report to the Government on Beaumarchais’s _Mariage de Figaro_, 233, 234 Garrick, David, anecdote of, 230 note Gauthier-Villars, M., 80 Gavaudan, Mlle. (singer), 316 Geoffrin, Madame, 111 Geoffroy (critic), his criticisms of Mlle. Contat’s acting, 258 Gluck, invited to Paris by Marie Antoinette, 57; chooses Sophie Arnould for the name-part in _Iphigénie en Aulide_, 57; difficulties with which he has to contend, 57-62; his quaint behaviour at rehearsals, 62, 63; refuses to consent to a postponement of _Iphigénie_, 63; success of his opera, 66; adapts _Orfeo_ for the Paris stage, 66; his quarrel with the Prince d’Hénin at Sophie Arnould’s house, 66-68; production of his _Orphée_, 68; failure of his _Cythère assiégée_, 68, 69; gives lessons in singing to Rosalie Levasseur, 70; chooses her for the part of Alceste in preference to Sophie Arnould, 71, 72; is “the musician of the soul,” 73; attacked in _Le Nouveau Spectateur_, 75; disgraceful treatment of Sophie Arnould by his supporters, 75, 76; his tribute to Sophie Arnould’s talent, 96; his prediction concerning Madame Saint-Huberty, 266; gives her lessons, 274, 275 and note; obtains a post for her husband, 276; his contest with Piccini, 295, 296 Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de, (cited) 18, 60 Grétry (composer), 197, 198, 288; (cited) 59, 60, 208 Greuze (painter), his portrait of Sophie Arnould, 19 Guadagni (singer), 66 Grimm (cited), 43, 44, 65, 68, 114, 123, 148, 149, 152 and note, 154, 161, 163, 164, 173, 180, 209, 210, 213, 229, 302 and note, 304 Guéménée, Prince de, 130, 131 Guichard, lampoons Sophie Arnould, 71, 72 Guimard, Fabien (father of Mlle. Guimard), 101, 102