Quinault-Dufresne, 180 note R Rachel, Mlle., 30, 129, 156 Racine, Jean, enraptured at Marie de Champmeslé's rendering of Hermione, 94; gives her lessons in elocution, 94, 95; makes her his mistress, 95; his dramatic duel with Pierre Corneille, 96-98; his _Bajazet_, 98; his _Mithridate_, 99; his _Iphigénie en Aulide_, 100-102; writes his _Phèdre_, 102, 103; the Duchesse de Bouillon and Madame Deshoulières persuade Pradon to enter the lists against him, 103; production of the two _Phèdres_, 104; discreditable tactics of Madame de Bouillon to ruin his play, 104, 105; he eventually triumphs, 105; character of his intimacy with Marie de Champmeslé, 107, 108; breaks off the connection, 111; probable reasons for his withdrawal from dramatic authorship, 111, 112 and note; his letter to his son, Louis Racine, on Mlle. de Champmeslé's death, 122, 123 Racine, Louis, 112 note, 122, 123; (cited) 94, 96 Régnier, 129; (cited) 138, 148, 150 Revel, Comte de, 107 Riccoboni, (cited) 147 Riccoboni, Madame, (cited) 338 Richelieu, Abbé de, his supposed _liaison_ with Mlle. Molière, 44, 45, 46 Richelieu, Cardinal de, 58, 266 Richelieu, Duc de, 211, 329, 334, 336 Rieux, Président de, 216, 217, 218 Robinet, (cited) 29, 31, 60 Rohault (physician), 53 Rohan, Cardinal de, 82 Rohan, Chevalier de, his quarrel with Voltaire, 154, 155 Rotrou, Jean, 16 Roucoux, Battle of, 238 Roullé, Père, denounces Molière, 70 S Sainte-Beuve, 129, 179; (cited) 146, 190, 242 Saint-René Taillandier, M. de, (cited) 242, 266 note Saint-Marc (police-inspector), his reports to Berryer, 304-306 Sallé, Mlle., 219 Samson, 351