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
Sageret (theatrical manager) induces the members of
the Comédie-Française to migrate to the Théâtre-Feydeau, 187;
brings the expelled members of the
Théâtre de la République to the same theatre, 188;
takes over the Odéon from Mlle. Raucourt, 188;
goes bankrupt and disappears, 189
Sacchini, Madame Saint-Huberty’s success in his _Renaud_, 289;
and in his _Chimène_, 308;
Lemoine’s _Phèdre_ given precedence over his _Œdipe à Colone_, 310;
his death, 310
Saint-Aubin (singer), object of a
violent fancy on the part of Madame Saint-Huberty, 312, 313
Saint-Aubin, Madame, 313
Saint-Huberty, Claude Croisilles de, visits Strasburg, 268;
persuades Antoinette Clavel to accompany him to Berlin, 269;
and to marry him, 269, 270;
ill-treats and deserts her, 270;
persuades her to rejoin him at Warsaw, 271;
arrested at Berlin and thrown into prison, 271;
his release procured by his wife, 272;
decamps from Warsaw with all her belongings, 272;
persuades her to rejoin him in Vienna, 274;
deserts her for the third time, 274;
appointed wardrobe-keeper at the Paris Opera, 276;
persecutes and robs his wife, 276;
her complaint to the Châtelet against him, 277;
his outrageous treatment of her, 278, 279;
lays claim to her professional
earnings through fictitious creditors, 279, 280;
his marriage with her dissolved, 281
Saint-Huberty, Madame, Gluck’s prediction concerning her, 265, 266;
her birth and parentage, 267;
her early years at Strasburg, 267;
Lemoine’s kindness to her, 267, 268;
meets Saint-Huberty, 268, 269;
accompanies him to Berlin, 269;
marries him, 270;
ill-treated and deserted by him, 270;
rejoins him at Warsaw, 271;
her success in _Zémor et Azor_, 271;
procures her husband’s release from prison, 272;
deserted and robbed by him, 272;
befriended by the Princess Lubomirska, 272;
obtains a separation from her husband in respect of property, 273;
rejoins him in Vienna, 274;
deserted by him for the third time, 274;
obtains an _ordre de début_ at the Paris Opera, 275;
receives lessons from Gluck, 274, 275 and note;
makes her _début_, 275;
persecuted and robbed by her husband, 276;
lodges a complaint against him before the Châtelet, 277, 278;
shamefully ill-treated by him, 278, 279;
her professional earnings claimed by him through fictitious creditors, 280;
obtains judgment in her favour, 280;
and a dissolution of her marriage, 281;
steadily making her way to the front, 281, 282;
becomes a permanent member of the Opera, 283;
her triumph as Angélique in Piccini’s _Roland_, 283, 284;
further successes, 284;
her efforts on behalf of Lemoine’s _Électre_, 285;
endeavours to promote the reform of theatrical costumes, 286;
her success in _Ariane dans l’Île de Naxos_, 287;
saved by Piccini from being expelled from the Opera, 287;
her success in Grétry’s _l’Embarras des richesses_, 288, 289;
and in Sacchini’s _Renaud_, 289;
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