Dumesnil, Marie Françoise, a worthy successor to Adrienne Lecouvreur, 275; her triumph in _Mérope_, 276; compared with Mlle. Clairon, 292, 293; preferred by Louis XV. to the latter, 338 Dumolard, (cited) 242 Du Parc, Mlle., rejects the advances of Molière, 17; and of Pierre Corneille, 58; confidante of Armande Béjart, 45; Racine "experiences with her a sentiment which has the dignity of love," 107 Duras, Duc de, 327, 335, 336 Duronceray, Justine: _see_ Favart, Justine Duronceray, M. (father of Justine Favart), 228; a tool in the hands of Maurice de Saxe, 254-256, 258, 259, 261 Duronceray, Madame (mother of Justine Favart), 228 Du Rouvray, M., 283 E _École des femmes_, Molière's, 14, 33, 34 _École des maris_, Molière's, 33 Edwards, Mr. Sutherland, 43 note _El Desden con el Desden_, Moreto's, 28 _Électre_, Crébillon's, 145, 312 _Électre_, Longpierre's, 33 _Électre_, Voltaire's, 322 Elizabeth Petrovna, Czarina of Russia, wooed by Maurice de Saxe, 173-175; invites Mlle. Clairon to St. Petersburg, 320 _Élomire hypocondre_, Le Boulanger de Chalussay's, 13, 14 Elzevirs, the, print an edition of _Élomire hypocondre_, 14 Épinay, Madame d', 315 Eugène of Savoy, 135, 169 F _Fameuse Comédienne, La_, libel on Armande Béjart, 15, 21, 22, 25, 40-54, 56, 72, 73, 82, 84 _Fausse Prude, La_, 121 note Favart, Charles Nicolas Joseph, 272 Favart, Charles Paul, 225 and note Favart, Charles Simon, his early life, 225, 226; produces _La Chercheuse d'esprit_, 227; director of the Opéra-Comique, 227; engages Justine Duronceray, 228; marries her, 229; invited by Maurice de Saxe to accompany him to Flanders, 231; celebrates the Marshal's entry into Brussels, 233; his adventures in Flanders, 234, 235; announces in verse Maurice's intention to give battle, 237, 238; his account of the battle of Lawfeld, 244, 245; learns of his wife's misconduct with the Marshal, 245; takes her to Brussels, 246; his letter to her, 247; prosecuted by the proprietors of the Brussels theatre, at the instigation of the Marshal, 249; returns to Paris and persuades Justine to leave Maurice, 251; flies to Strasburg, 251; Justine's letter to him, 253, 254; refuses money offered him by the Marshal, 259; reduced to terrible straits, 265; returns to Paris, 265; his verses upon the death of Maurice de Saxe, 266; regards love as "the greatest of all evils," 267; tolerates his wife's _liaison_ with the Abbé de Voisenon, 267; his later works, 267-272; his admiration for Mlle. Clairon's acting, 294