Béjart, Madeleine, her parentage, 34; becomes an actress, 4, 5; has a daughter by the Comte de Modène, 5, 6; commonly believed to be the mother of Armande Béjart, 7-10; and to have been the mistress of Molière, 11; hideous accusation of Montfleury, 11, 12; repeated by Guichard, Le Boulanger de Chalussay, and in _La Fameuse Comédienne_, 12-15; joins the Illustre Théâtre, 15; her talent as an actress and personal appearance, 16; question as to her relations with Molière considered, 17-20; promotes the marriage between Molière and Armande, 21, 22 Bellerose, 76 note Benoît (surgeon), his dispute with Dubois of the Comédie-Française, 328, 329 _Bérénice_, Racine's, 96, 97, 98 Bergheick, Comte de, lover of Mlle. Clairon, 281 Bernard, Samuel, 216 Bernhardt, Madame Sarah, 138 Berri, Duchesse de, 205 Berryer, Lieutenant of Police, 285, 304, 305, 306, 318 Besenval, Baron de, Mlle. Clairon's love-letters to him, 303 Bimorel, Madame de, 282, 283, 285 Blainville, expelled from the Comédie-Française, 329 Blondi, dancing-master, 206 Blot, 42 Boileau-Despréaux, 60, 71, 100, 103, 108, 109, 116; (cited) 102 Boileau-Puimorin, 60 Bossuet, denounces the plays of Molière, 70; his _Maximes et réflexions sur la comédie_, 119, 120 Botte de la Barondière, Père, insists on Brécourt renouncing the stage, 117 and note Bouillon (Louise Françoise de Lorraine), Duchesse de, enamoured of Maurice de Saxe, 179; her personal appearance, 179 note; accused by the Abbé Bouret of having engaged him to poison Adrienne Lecouvreur, 179-188; suspected of having caused the death of the actress, 188-190; consideration of this charge, 190, 191; discarded by the Comte de Clermont for Mlle. de Camargo, 213 Bouillon (Marie-Anne Mancini), Duchesse de, intrigues to ruin Racine's _Phèdre_, 103-105 Bourdaloue, Père, preaches against _Tartuffe_, 70; denounces the theatre, 120 Bouret, Abbé, accuses the Duchesse de Bouillon of having engaged him to poison Adrienne Lecouvreur, 179-184; sent to Saint-Lazare, 184; released, 184; rearrested, 185; persists in his accusation, 186; but finally recants, 187; set at liberty and disappears, 187 _Bourgeois gentilhomme_, Molière's, 23, 24, 97 note Bouteville, Duc de, 302 Bouty, Marie (mother of Mlle. de Champmeslé), 130 Boyer, Abbé, 92, 114, 115, 153 Brécourt, compelled by the curé of Saint-Sulpice to renounce his profession, 117 and note Breuze de la Martinière, 8 Brie, Mlle, de, joins the Illustre Théâtre, 17; becomes Molière's mistress, 17; resides in the Béjart's house, 48; resumes her intimacy with Molière, 55, 56; jealousy between her and Mlle. Molière, 73 Brizard, 330 Brossette, (cited) 17, 100 Brotok, Comte de, ruined by Mlle. Clairon, 303 By, Chevalier de, lover of Mlle. Clairon, 286 C Caffaro, Père, his _Lettre d'un Théologien_, in defence of the theatrical profession, 119, 120 Cahusac, (cited) 203 Calandrini, Madame, 180