Raucourt, Mlle., birth and parentage, 145 note, 146; goes to Spain with a French troupe, 146; plays at Rouen, 146; comes to Paris with her father, 147; studies under Brizard and Mlle. Clairon, 147 and note; astonishing success of her _début_ in Le Franc de Pompignan’s _Didon_, 148, 149; her talent greatly overrated, 150; becomes the idol of the town, 150, 151; plays before the Court at Versailles, 151; presented by Madame du Barry with a _robe de théâtre_, 151; frantic enthusiasm evoked by her acting, 152; a cabal formed against her at the Comédie-Française, 152, 153; her popularity enhanced by her reputation for virtue, 154-156; her reputation attacked by Voltaire, 156-158; his verses to her, 158; her _galanterie_ with the Duc d’Aiguillon, 159; becomes the acknowledged mistress of the Marquis de Bièvre, 159; leads a life of luxury and extravagance, 160; her _liaison_ with the Marquis de Villette, 160; “astonishes Court and town by her irregularities,” 161; loses her popularity, 161; hissed when playing Hermione in _Andromaque_, 162; accused of shameful vices, 162 and note, 163; her success as the Statue in _Pygmalion_, 163; intrigues against her at the theatre, 163; swoons after meeting with a hostile reception in _Britannicus_, 164; persecuted by her creditors, 164; flies from Paris and goes into hiding, 164; expelled from the Comédie-Française, 165; her adventures with Madame Souck, 165, 166; arrested, 166; released through the intervention of the Prince de Ligne, 166, 167; leaves France, 167; recalled to Paris, 170; befriended by Sophie Arnould, 170, 171; reappears at the Comédie-Française in _Didon_, 171, 172; meets with a violently hostile reception, 172; disgracefully treated on her appearance in _Phèdre_, 172, 173; declines to bow to the storm, 174; her letter to the _Journal de Paris_, 175; attacked in _La Vision du prophète Daniel_, 176, 177; commits “an act of frightful ingratitude,” 177; still in financial difficulties, 178; her play _Henriette_ produced at the Comédie-Française, 178-181; her success in a masculine part in _Le Jaloux_, 181; regaining her popularity, 181, 182; sympathises with the Royal Family in the Revolution, 183; arrested and imprisoned in Saint-Pélagie, 183; saved from the guillotine by Labussière, 184-186; takes the Théâtre de Louvois, 187; her success in Legouvé’s _Laurence_, 187; her theatre closed by the Directory, 188; takes the Odéon, 188; makes no secret of her monarchical sympathies, 189; growing rich, 189, 190; her “palace” in the Rue Royale, 190; takes a French troupe to Italy, 190; her last appearance, 190; her death, 190; scandalous scenes at her funeral, 190-193 _Renaud_, Sacchini’s, 289 Richelieu, Maréchal de, 156, 157 Rochefort, Comte de, enriches Mlle. Guimard’s jewel-case, 108 _Roland_, Piccini’s, 283 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 163, 321 S