Le Duc, Mlle., supplants Mlle, de Camargo in the affections of the Comte de Clermont, 216-218 Ledoux, plays a trick upon Président Lescot, 80-82 Le Grand, 134, 135 and note, 193 note Le Kain, 156, 292, 313 and note, 330, 336 note Lemaure, Mlle., 199 Lemontey, 129; (cited) 162, 172, 173 Lenclos, Ninon de, 108-111 Le Roy, Philippe, lover of Adrienne Lecouvreur, 141, 142 Lerys, François Joseph, father of Mlle. Clairon, 276 Le Sage, (cited) 115 Lescot, Président, his adventure with Mlle. Molière, 78-82 Loiseleur, M. Jules, 57; (cited) 9, 10, 15 Loret, 16 Loo, Jean Baptiste van, 137 Loo, Carle van, 300; his portrait of Mlle. Clairon, 319 note, 350 Louis XIII., 6, 19 Louis XIV., 12, 27, 64, 84, 114, 206 Louis XV., 338 Louis XVI., 325 note Löwendal, Maréchal, 231, 247, 265 Lulli, 12, 13, 75, 82 Luxembourg, Duc de, 302 M _Machabées_, Le Motte's, 123 Maintenon, Madame de, 121 note _Malade imaginaire_, Molière's, 32, 61-63, 71 _Mariage forcé_, Molière's, 29, 33, 35 _Mariamne_, Voltaire's, 154 Marie Leczinska, Queen of France, 154, 326 Mariette (_danseuse_), 204 Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, his propositions rejected by Mlle. Clairon, 287 and note Markheim, Mr. Gegg, (cited) 53, 54 Marmontel, 269; his relations with Mlle. Clairon, 307-313; assists in her apotheosis of Voltaire, 335; (cited) 243 note, 293 note, 336 Mars, Mlle., 30 Massillon, denounces the theatre, 120 Maugras, M. Gaston, (cited) 120 Maurepas, Comte de, 192 _Maximes et refléxions sur la comédie_, Bossuet's, 119 Mazarin, Cardinal, 68 _Médecin malgré lui_, Molière's, 29, 49 _Médée_, Longpierre's, 116, 300 Meister, Henri, 347 _Mélicerte_, Molière's, 49, 56, 85 Melun, Comte de, carries off Mlle. de Camargo, 208-211 _Mercure de France_, (cited) 24, 148, 152, 153, 155, 288, 301 _Mercure galant_, (cited) 25 Merlin, Père (curé of Saint-Sulpice), refuses ecclesiastical burial to Molière, 63, 68 Meusnier (police-inspector), 229, 255-256, 257; (cited) 214, 242, 253, 254, 265 Michelet, 139; (cited) 137, 138 Mignard, Pierre (painter), 53, 60 _Misanthrope_, Molière's, 29, 31, 33, 37-39, 53, 54, 55, 78 _Mithridate_, Racine's, 99, 100 Modène, Comte de, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18 Modène, Comtesse de, 5 and note, 9 Molé, 292, 330, 337 and note