Queens of the French StageWilliams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel)
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Queens of the French Stage
Williams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel)
Actresses -- France -- Biography
Camargo, Marie-Anne de: _see_ Cupis de Camargo
Cartouche (brigand), 135
_Cartouche, ou les voleurs_, Le Grand's, 135
Casanova, (cited) 220
Castelnau, Marquis de, 265
Castil-Blaze, (cited) 200, 208
Champmeslé, Charles de: _see_ Chevillet de Champmeslé
Champmeslé, Marie de: _see_ Chevillet de Champmeslé
Chantilly, Mlle.: _see_ Favart, Justine
Chapelle, 42, 49-52, 53, 54, 71, 98
Chappuzeau, Samuel, (cited) 76 note, 77
Chardon, M. Henri, (cited) 4, 18, 19
Châteauroux, Duchesse de, 215, 289
Chevillet de Champmeslé, Charles,
runs away from home to become an actor, 90, 91;
marries Marie Desmares, 91;
joins the Théâtre du Marais, 91;
leaves it for the Hôtel de Bourgogne, 93;
a complacent husband, 93;
on the best of terms with his wife's admirers, 108;
joins the Théâtre Guénégaud, 113;
his _Parisien_, 113;
singular incident connected with his death, 125, 126
Chevillet de Champmeslé, Marie,
birth and parentage, 89;
becomes an actress and makes her _début_ at Rouen, 90;
marries Charles de Champmeslé, 91;
comes to Paris with her husband, 91;
joins the Théâtre du Marais, 91;
her first successes, 92;
leaves the Marais for the Hôtel de Bourgogne, 93;
her triumph as Hermione in _Andromaque_, 93;
her gifts as an actress, 94, 95;
her personal appearance, 95, 96;
becomes the mistress of Racine, 96;
her successes in _Bérénice_, 97;
in _Bajazet_, 98;
in _Ariane_, 99;
in _Mithridate_, 99;
in _Iphigénie en Aulide_, 100-102;
in _Phèdre_, 106;
her house "the rendezvous of all persons of distinction in
both Court and town," 107;
unfaithful to Racine, 107, 108;
her relations with Charles de Sévigné, 108-110;
_liaison_ with the Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, 111;
discarded by Racine, 111;
her impersonation of Queen Elizabeth in the _Comte d'Essex_, 113;
joins the Théâtre Guénégaud, 113;
one of the original _sociétaires_ of the Comédie-Française, 113;
secures her brother Nicolas's admission _sans début_, 114;
later performances by her, 114-116;
falls ill and retires from stage, 116;
with difficulty induced to renounce her profession, 122;
dies, 122;
two letters of Racine on her death, 122, 123;
her pupils, Mlles. Duclos and Charlotte Desmares, 123-125
Chevreuse, Duchesse de, 246, 247
Choiseul, Duc de, 327
Christian VII., King of Denmark, 337
Cindré, Marquis de, lover of Mlle. Clairon, 306
_Circé_, Thomas Corneille's, 78
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