[61] _Adrienne Lecouvreur_, by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé, first represented at the Théâtre de la République, April 1849. [62] It was only when she became an actress that Adrienne prefaced her patronymic by the article "_Le_," in order to give it a more artistic sound. For a long time she wrote her name as two words. [63] Several writers have stated that she was his mistress, but this is incorrect. It was her cousin, the laundress's daughter, who occupied that position. [64] _Études de littérature et d'art: Adrienne Lecouvreur_, p. 124. [65] _Le Mercure de France_, March 1730. [66] _Profils de Femmes: Adrienne Lecouvreur._ [67] Note the change from the familiar and affectionate "_ton_" of the previous letter to the formal "_votre_." [68] _Causeries du Lundi_, I. 161. [69] Lemontey, _Notice sur Adrienne Lecouvreur_. [70] Cited by M. Georges Monval, _Lettres d'Adrienne Lecouvreur_. [71] There were, at this period, four members of the Quinault family in the troupe of the Comédie-Française: two brothers, Jean Baptiste Quinault and Abraham Alexis Quinault-Dufresne, and two sisters, Marie-Anne Quinault and Jeanne Françoise Quinault. [72] _Mercure de France_, March 1730. [73] In Thomas Corneille's tragedy, _Le Comte d'Essex_. [74] According to another version of this affair, it was the challenge, and not the quarrel, which took place in Adrienne's dressing-room. [75] _Études du littérature et d'art: Adrienne Lecouvreur_, p. 141. [76] _Lettres d'Adrienne Lecouvreur_, by M. Georges Monval, p. 252. [77] The acceptance of this charge must have required some little courage on the good councillor's part, since rumour credited him with being something more than a friend to the actress, which is perhaps not altogether a matter for surprise, seeing that he was so frequent a visitor in the Rue des Marais that he "passed for the master of the house, and was addressed by the servants as 'Monsieur' only, without the addition of his name." [78] M. Paléologue, _Profils de femmes: Adrienne Lecouvreur_. [79] For a specimen of Maurice's orthography, see page 240, _note_, _infra._ [80] And not £30,000, as Carlyle and so many writers have stated. [81] Carlyle's "History of Frederick the Great," ii. 160. [82] Louise Henriette Françoise of Lorraine (Mlle. de Guise), daughter of the Prince and Princesse d'Harcourt, and fourth wife of Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon, whom she married in 1725. Here is a contemporary portrait of her: "Very pretty; rather tall than short; neither stout nor slender; an oval face; a broad forehead; black eyes and eyebrows; brown hair; very wide mouth and very red lips." [83] She numbered among her lovers the Comte de Clermont, a Prince of the Blood, the actors Quinault-Dufresne and Grandval of the Comédie-Française, and a singer of the Opera, named Tribou.