Molière, his marriage with Armande Béjart, 3; abominable charge brought against him by Montfleury _père_, 11, 12; the accusation repeated by Guichard in _Élomire hypocondre_ and in _La Fameuse Comédienne_, 12-15; question of his relations with Madeleine Béjart considered, 15-20; becomes the lover of Mlle. de Brie, 17; allusions to his relations with his wife in his plays, 33-40; his jealousy, 40; separated from his wife, 48; supposed conversation with Chapelle at Auteuil, 49-55; resumes his _liaison_ with Mlle. de Brie, 55; but still adores his wife, 55; reconciled to her, 55, 56; goes to reside in the Rue de Richelieu, 60; his health failing, 60, 61; insists on playing in _Malade imaginaire_, 62; his death, 62, 63; refused ecclesiastical burial, 63; compromise made, 64; effect of his _Tartuffe_ upon the attitude of the Church to the theatre, 69, 70; his funeral, 70-72; not entirely blameless for his domestic unhappiness, 73, 74; his genius not fully appreciated by his contemporaries, 83 Molière, Madeleine, 85 Molière, Mlle.: _see_ Béjart, Armande Monaco, Princesse de, 100 Montalant, M. de, marries Madeleine Molière, 85 Montausier, Duc de, 38 Montespan, Madame de, 105, 106, 212 Montfleury, _père_, his abominable charge against Molière, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 40 Montfleury, _fils_, 11, 40 Monval, M. Georges, 130, 132, 163; (cited) 139, 193 and note _Mort de Pompée, La_, 156 Mounet-Sully, M., 138 Myesses, the Demoiselles, prosecute Favart, 249, 251 N Nantes, Mlle. de, 212 Navarre, Mlle. (mistress of Maurice de Saxe), 243 note, 307, 308 Necker, Madame, (cited) 270 Nicole, Père, denounces the theatre, 69 Noury, M., (cited) 90, 113 O _Œdipe_, Voltaire's, 189 Oligny, Mlle. d', 325 and note, 326 Orléans, Gaston, Duc d', 6 Orléans, Duchesse d' (Princess Palatine), 125, 213 Orléans, Regent d', 125, 213 _Orphelin de la Chine_, Voltaire's, 294, 295, 300, 314 P Paléologue, M. Maurice, (cited) 139, 140, 171, 172 Parabère, Comtesse de, 189 and note Parfaict, Brothers, 72; (cited) 25, 95, 111 _Parisien_, Charles de Champmeslé's, 84, 85, 113 Parmentier, 231, 235, 239 Peterborough, Earl of, 161 Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, 145 _Phèdre_, Pradon's, 103-105 _Phèdre et Hippolyte_, Racine's, 102-106, 112, 290, 291, 351 Piron, 158 Poisson, Mlle., (cited) 24, 25 Poisson, Philippe, satirises Adrienne Lecouvreur in _l'Actresse nouvelle_, 151 _Polyeucte_, Pierre Corneille's, 135, 136 Pompadour, Madame de, 214, 322 Pont-de-Veyle, Marquis de, 158 Préault (sculptor), 138 Préville, 292 Prévost, Mlle, (_danseuse_), gives lessons to Mlle. de Camargo, 200; intrigues against her, 202, 204; supplanted by her in the affections of the public, 204-206 _Princesse d' Élide_, Molière's, 28, 29, 45, 46 Prungent (intendant of the Duchess of Brunswick), 161 _Psyché_, 32 and note, 56, 57, 59, 60 Q Quinault, Jean Baptiste, 135 Quinaults, the, 150 and note