Later Queens of the French StageWilliams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel)
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Later Queens of the French Stage
Williams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel)
Actresses -- France -- Biography
Hénin, Prince d’, becomes _amant en titre_ to Sophie Arnould, 46;
bores her insufferably, 54;
a victim of the “inextinguishable humour”
of the Comte de Lauraguais, 54, 55;
his quarrel with Gluck at Sophie Arnould’s house, 66-67;
compelled to apologise to the composer, 67, 68;
threatens the directors of the Opera with corporal punishment, 72;
guillotined, 89;
one of Mlle. Raucourt’s warmest partisans, 171;
deserts Sophie Arnould for her, 177, 178;
assists her to outwit her creditors, 178;
bitterly attacked in _La Vision du prophète Daniel_, 176
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_Iphigénie en Aulide_, Gluck’s, 57, 58, 62-66, 68, 69, 73 and note, 76, 96
_Iphigénie en Tauride_, Piccini’s, 32, 284 and note, 296
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Jal, Auguste (cited), 145, 226
Jarente, Bishop of Orléans, his _liaison_ with Mlle. Guimard, 33, 113, 114
Jéliotte (singer), 6
Joly, Mlle., 187
Joly de Fleury (advocate-general),
his dispute with the Comte de Lauraguais, 40, 41
_Journal de Paris, le_ (cited), 171, 259, 286
Jullien, M. Adolphe (cited), 308, 309 note, 343
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La Borde, Jean Benjamin de, makes
alterations in the music of _Amadis de Gaule_, 53 note;
lover of Mlle. Guimard, 109;
his character, 109;
his _Pensées et Maximes_, 109 note;
his daughter by her, 109;
supplanted as titular protector by the Prince de Soubise, 110;
but remains her _amant de cœur_, 110;
given his _congé_, 120, 121;
goes to visit Voltaire, 121
Labussière, Charles de, destroys the accusatory documents relating
to the imprisoned actors of the Comédie-Française, 184-186
La Ferté (Intendant of the Menus Plaisirs),
127, 132, 291, 292, 300, 305, 306, 312, 313, 324, 325
Laguerre, Mlle., her _liaison_ with the Duc de Bouillon, 32 and 320;
Sophie Arnould’s _bons mots_ about her, 32
La Harpe (cited), 76 note, 163, 168, 173, 174, 180
Lalande (composer), 7
Langeac, Marquis de, lover of Madame Dugazon, 204;
his affray with her husband, 204, 205
Larive (actor), 187
Larrivée (singer), 61, 70, 275
La Tour (painter), his portrait of Sophie Arnould, 19
Lau, Comtesse de, 133
Lauraguais, Comte de, takes up his residence,
under an assumed character, at the Arnoulds’ hôtel, 21, 22;
elopes with Sophie Arnould, 23;
his letter to her parents, 24;
his eccentric character, 24, 25;
anecdotes about him, 25-27;
his _liaison_ with Sophie Arnould, 28, 29;
discarded by her, 35, 36;
her letter to him, 36, 37;
resumption of their relations, 39, 40;
his _Mémoire sur l’inoculation_, 40, 41;
imprisoned at Metz, 41, 42;
his release procured by Sophie Arnould, 42;
separated from his wife, 42, 43;
indulging in “_passades_,” 43;
purchases the favours of Mlle. Heinel, 45;
“a charming instance of his inextinguishable humour,” 52-54;
in exile, 89;
Sophie Arnould’s letter to him, in 1797, 92, 93;
befriends her in her poverty and old age, 93
La Vauguyon, Duc de, Sophie Arnould’s _bon mot_ about him, 33, 34
La Vrilliére, Duc de, 37, 62
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