Guimard, Marie Madeleine, birth and parentage, 101, 112; education, 103; joins the _corps de ballet_ of the Comédie-Française, 103; her _liaison_ with the dancer Léger, 104, 105; and with the financier Bertin, 105; makes her _début_ at the Opera, 105; her success in _Castor et Pollux_, 105, 106; growing in favour, 106; her dancing “the poetry of motion,” 106, 107; her personal appearance, 107, 108; her adorers, 108; her _liaison_ with La Borde, 108, 109; marriage of her daughter by him, 109, 110; accepts the “protection” of the Prince de Soubise, 110; unrivalled in magnificence, 110, 111; her appearance at Longchamps, 111; her suppers, 111; her theatre at Pantin, 112, 113; Jarente, Bishop of Orléans, becomes her lover, 113; and allows her to control the _feuille des bénéfices_, 114; her generosity, 114-116; her hôtel in the Chaussée d’Antin, 116-118; befriends Jacques Louis David, the painter, 118, 119; Fragonard’s practical joke at her expense, 119; inauguration of her private theatre in the Chaussée d’Antin, 119; compelled to give La Borde his _congé_, 120, 121; fête at her hôtel forbidden by Louis XVI., 121, 122; her triumph in _La Chercheuse d’esprit_, 123; and in _Ninette à la Cour_, 124; other successes, 124; Dorat’s verses to her, 124, 125; the cause of much trouble to the administration of the Opera, 125-128; receives a pension, 128; has a narrow escape of her life, 128; in the fire at the Opera-House in the Haymarket, 129; has her arm broken, 129; resigns the pension allowed her by the Prince de Soubise, 129-131; disposes of her hôtel in the Chaussée-d’Antin by lottery, 132, 133; her visits to England, 134, 135; caricature of her, 136; marries Jean Étienne Despréaux, 136-138; loses her pensions during the Revolution, 138; goes to live at Montmartre, 138, 139; her charms celebrated by her husband in verse, 139; her last performance, 145; her “theatre,” 140, 141; her death, 141 Guimard, Marie Madeleine the younger, her birth, 109; acknowledged by her parents, 109; her marriage, 109, 110; her mother’s grief at her death, 110 H Hawkins, Mr. Frederick (cited), 145 note, 258 note Hebditch, David, his evidence at the inquest on the Comte and Comtesse d’Antraigues, 320-341 Heinel, Mlle. (_danseuse_), her _début_ at the Opera, 43; Grimm’s enthusiasm for her, 44; her visit to England, 44 note; mistress of the Comte de Lauraguais, 45 _Henriette_, Mlle. Raucourt’s, 178-181 Henry of Prussia, Prince, Mlle. Contat’s adventure with him, 246-248 Hitchin, William, his evidence at the inquest on the Comte and Comtesse d’Antraigues, 341, 342 Holbach, Baron d’, 96 Huet (actor), harangues Louis XVIII. on the day of Mlle. Raucourt’s funeral, 192 Hus, Mlle., 38