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
Favart, Justine, her parentage, 228;
engaged at the Opéra-Comique, 228;
makes her _début_, 229;
her marriage with Favart, 229 and note, 230;
her success in _Les Vendanges de Tempé_, 230;
accompanies her husband to Flanders, 232;
the object of a violent passion on the part of Maurice de Saxe, 239, 240;
"possessed by the demon of conjugal love," 240;
Maurice's letter to her, 240, 241;
yields to the importunities of the Marshal, 242, 243 and note;
refuses to continue the _liaison_, 244;
confesses her misconduct to her husband, 245, 246;
flies to Brussels, 246;
Favart's letter to her, 247;
continues her flight to Paris, 248;
persuaded to resume her intimacy with the Marshal, 249, 250;
again leaves him and declares that "her salvation is dearer to her
than all the fortunes in the world," 250;
her successful _début_ at the Comédie-Italienne, 252;
her letter to her husband in hiding at Strasburg, 253;
her father a tool in the hands of Maurice de Saxe, 254-255;
_lettre de cachet_ issued against her, 255;
leaves Paris to join her husband, 256;
arrested, at the instigation of Maurice, and taken to Les
Grands-Andelys, 257;
her correspondence with her husband and Maurice de Saxe, 257-259;
removed to a convent at Angers, 259;
further correspondence with the Marshal, 259-262;
exhorted by Mlle. Fleury to "become reasonable," 263;
and by her sister-in-law, Marguerite Favart, to remain
inflexible, 264, 265;
terrified into submission to the Marshal, and is released, 265;
returns to Paris, 265;
her relations with the Abbé de Voisenon, 267;
reappears at the Comédie-Italienne, 267;
her extraordinary versatility, 268;
strenuous for a reform in stage costume, 268;
performances by her, 268-270;
retires from the stage, 270;
her last illness and death, 271
_Femmes savantes_, Molière's, 32
Fénelon, denounces the theatre, 120
Ferriol, Madame de, Adrienne Lecouvreur's letter to, 165-167, 169
_Fête de Vénus_, Marie de Champmeslé's appearance in, 92
_Fils ingrats_, Piron's, 155
Fléchier, denounces the theatre, 120
Flemming, Count, intrigues against Maurice de Saxe, 170, 176
_Florentin, Le_, Adrienne Lecouvreur's performances in, 155, 189
Floridor, 11;
refused ecclesiastical burial, 70
Florimont, 55
Folleville, Président de, his affray with the Marquis de Cony, 282
Fonpré, Mlle., engages Adrienne Lecouvreur to play at Lille, 136
Fontaine, his portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 137-139
Forcalquier, Madame de, 319
Fouché, Paul, (cited) 89
Fournier, Edouard, 9
Fréron, his attack upon Mlle. Clairon, 324-338
Fronsac, Duc de, lover of Mlle. Dubois, 329;
interferes on behalf of her father, 329
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Gaboriau, Emile, (cited) 37, 43 note, 203, 206, 215
Gaillard de la Bataille, his adventure with Mlle. Clairon, 283, 284;
his libel upon her, 284, 285
Galitzin, Princess, 319, 320
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