Cupis de Camargo, Marie-Anne de, birth and parentage, 199, 200; her precocious talent, 200; sent to Paris to take lessons from Mlle. Prévost, 200; _première danseuse_ at Brussels theatre, 201; goes to Rouen, 201; engaged at the Paris Opera, 201, 202; her triumphal _début_, 202 and note; her personal appearance, 202, 203; "abbreviates her skirts," 203, 204; triumphs over the intrigues of Mlle. Prévost and becomes queen of the Opera, 204-206; revolutionises the ballet, 206, 207; patronised by the Duchesse de Villars, 207; carried off by the Comte de Melun, 208-211; conceives "_une belle passion_" for the Marquis de Sourdis, 211, 212; becomes the mistress of the Comte de Clermont, 212-214; temporarily retires from the Opera, 214; does the honours of the Château de Berny, 215; discarded by the count for Mlle. Le Duc, 216; becomes the mistress of the Président de Rieux, 216, 217; receives a magnificent present, 217; breaks with the président and resumes her _liaison_ with the Marquis de Sourdis, 218; returns to the Opera, 219; rivalry between her and Mlle. Sallé, 219; verses addressed to them by Voltaire, 219; makes her _début_ as a singer, 220; definitely retires from the Opera, 220; her later years and death, 220, 221 Cupis de Camargo, Sophie de, 208, 209-211 D D----, Baron, lover of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 141 Dancourt, 135 Dangeville, Mlle., inspires Mlle. Clairon with a desire to become an actress, 278-280; finds it "impossible to live" with Mlle. Clairon, 323 Des Boulmiers, (cited) 171 Desheys introduces Mlle. Clairon to the Comédie-Italienne, 281 Deshoulières, Madame, intrigues against Racine, 103 Desmares, Charlotte, 114, 124, 125, 126 Desmares, Guillaume, father of Marie de Champmeslé, 89 Desmares, Marie: _see_ Chevillet de Champmeslé, Marie Desmares, Nicolas, brother of Marie de Champmeslé, 89, 114, 126 Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, 69 Desnoiresterres, Gustave, (cited) 229 note, 239, 240 note, 242 Des Œillets, Mlle., 93, 94, 98 _Devineresse, La_, 78 Diderot, 347 _Don Garcie de Navarre_, Molière's, 301 _Don Juan_, Molière's, 65, 78, 79 Donneau de Visé, 8, 27, 78, 79, 99 Dubois, Abbé, (cited) 106 Dubois (actor of the Comédie-Française), his dispute with the surgeon Benoît, 328; expelled from the Comédie, 329; temporarily reinstated, 329; Mlle. Clairon and four of her colleagues decline to act with him, 330; his partisans create a riot in the theatre, 330, 331; resigns his place, 334 Dubois, Mlle., 329, 330, 331 Duclos, Mlle., 123, 124, 125, 126 Du Deffand, Marquise, 319 Du Gué, Madame, invites Adrienne Lecouvreur to perform at her hôtel, 131-133 Du Maine, Duchesse, 158 Du Marsais, César, his "_Bon, cela!_" 148; gives Adrienne Lecouvreur lessons in elocution, 149 Dumas d'Aigueberre, (cited) 152, 153