Languet de Gergy (curé of Saint-Sulpice), his conduct in regard to the burial of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 192, 194 La Noue, 281, 285, 286, 289 La Paute, 101 note La Popelinière, 287, 302 Laporte, Abbé de, (cited) 93, 94 Larive, 339, 340, 342, 343, 347 Laroque, 93 Larroumet, M. Gustave, 129; (cited) 4, 15, 18, 19, 22, 29, 43, 44, 48, 49, 54, 62 note, 81, 111, 122, 123, 136, 138, 143, 157, 190 La Thorillière, 97 Lauraguais, Duc de, 289 Lauzun, Comte (afterwards Duc) de, his supposed _liaison_ with Mlle. Molière, 45-47 Lawfeld, Battle of, 244, 245 Le Boulanger de Chalussay, his _Élomire hypocondre_, 13, 14 Le Brun, Père, denounces the theatre, 120 note Lecouvreur, Adrienne, her attraction for French writers, 129; her birth and parentage, 130; comes to Paris, 130; takes part in a performance, by children, at the hôtel of Madame du Gué, 131-133; and at the Temple, 133, 134; receives lessons from the actor Le Grand, 135, 136; accepts an engagement at Lille, 136; her career as a provincial actress, 136, 137; her portrait by Charles Coypel and Fontaine, 137-139; her beauty attested by her contemporaries, 139, 140; possesses a very susceptible nature, 140, 141; her early love affairs, 141, 142; her letters to the actor Clavel, 142-144; her _liaison_ with the Comte de Klinglin, 144, 145; her children, 145; her brilliant _début_ at the Comédie-Française, 145; her natural style of elocution the principal cause of her success, 146-148; her debt to César du Marsais, 148, 149; bitterly opposed by the champions of the old school of declamation, 149-151; her triumph assured by the support of Baron, 151, 152; her wonderful by-play, 152; contemporary criticisms of her acting, 152, 153; her faults as an actress, 153; her principal rôles in tragedy, 152, 153; quarrel between Voltaire and the Chevalier de Rohan in her dressing-room, 154, 155; does not excel in comedy, 155; her costumes, 155-157; her unique social position, 157-159; complains of the burden of her social duties, 159, 160; her favourite occupations, 160, 161; her reputed lovers, 161; her relations with Voltaire, 161, 162; resolved to abjure _la vie passionnelle_, 162, 163; rejects the advances of La Chalotais, 163, 164; the object of a violent passion on the part of d'Argental, 164, 165; her letter to his mother, Madame de Ferriol, 165-168; becomes the mistress of Maurice de Saxe, 171; secret of her devotion to him, 172; disposes of her jewels to assist him in his candidature for the throne of Courland, 175; unjustly accused by him of infidelity, 177; charge against the Duchesse de Bouillon of having attempted to poison her, 179-188; her last appearance on the stage, 188-190; her death, 190; the question of poison considered, 190, 191; the scandal of her burial, 191-195; her _éloge_ written by Voltaire, 195, 196