Clairon, Mlle., her parentage, 276; her birth, 276, 277; comes with her mother to Paris, 277; her account of how she was led to become an actress, 278-281; makes her _début_ at the Comédie-Italienne, 281; accepts an engagement at Rouen, 281; her life there, 282, 283; adventure with Gaillard de la Bataille, 283, 284; _Histoire de Mademoiselle Cronel, dite Frétillon_, 284, 285; her mother tries to coerce her into marriage, 285; "three rival warriors contending for her heart," 286; rejects the proposals of "my lord" Marlborough, 287; returns to Paris and joins the Opera, 287; leaves the Opera for the Comédie-Française, 288; her admission opposed by certain members of the troupe, 289; insists on making her _début_ in the part of Phèdre, 289, 290; her brilliant success, 290, 291; her personal appearance, 291; her remarkable gifts as an actress, 293; testimony of Favart, 294; of Collé, 294, 295; of Hérault de Séchelles, 295; of Oliver Goldsmith, 295, 296; of Sturtz, 296-299; of Garrick, 299, 300; performances by her, 300, 301; her brilliant success as Aménaïde in _Tancrède_, 301; her lovers, 301-307; her _liaison_ with Marmontel, 307-309; changes her style of acting, 309-313; brings about a reform in stage costume, 313-314; an indefatigable student of everything connected with her art, 314-316; continuing her career of gallantry, 317-318; conceives a genuine passion for the Comte de Valbelle, 318, 319; her social success, 319 and note; her portrait painted by Carle van Loo, 319 and note, 320; declines an offer to take up her residence at St. Petersburg, 320, 321; Garrick commissions an engraving of her "in all the attributes of Tragedy," 321; gold medal struck in her honour, 322; her pride and arrogance, 322, 323; has the interests of her profession sincerely at heart, 323, 324; endeavours to relieve the stage from the ban of the Church, 324; attacked by Fréron, in the _Année littéraire_, 324-328; _l'affaire_ Dubois, 328-331; sent to For l'Évêque, 331, 332; her letter to Garrick, 332, 333; visits Voltaire at Ferney, 334, 335; enthusiastically acclaimed by the pit at Marseilles, 335; retires from the Comédie-Française, 335, 336; her life after her retirement, 336, 337; plays before the King of Denmark, 337, 338; and at Versailles, 338; her correspondence with her pupil Larive, 339, 340; accompanies the Margrave of Anspach to Germany, 341; her life at Anspach, 341-344; supplanted by Lady Craven in the affections of the Margrave, 344-346; takes up her residence at Issy, 346, 347; publication of her _Mémoires_, 347; her last years and death, 349-351; removal of her remains from Vaugirard to Père-Lachaise in 1837, 351, 352 Clavel, Adrienne Lecouvreur's letters to him, 142-145 Clement XI., Pope, declines to interfere between the Church and the theatrical profession, 121 note