[137] Collé, _Journal et Mémoires_ (edit. 1868), i. 99. Collé, like Grimm, shows himself very severe on Justine, whom almost all other contemporary writers agree in representing as a charming woman and an actress of remarkable talent. He describes her as "an impudent creature, without intelligence or skill, who sings vaudevilles with repulsive indecency, and dances with movements which seem suggestive and disgusting to persons of the smallest delicacy." [138] _Manuscrit trouvé à la Bastille_ (1789) p. 8. [139] Mlle. Rivière, one of Maurice's numerous mistresses. [140] The Marquis de Paulmy, son of the Marquis d'Argenson, and afterwards Minister for War. [141] Without doubt, Maurice de Saxe. [142] Letter of December 6, 1749; _Manuscrit trouvé à la Bastille_, p. 36 _et seq._ [143] Allusion to Justine's stage name of Chantilly, which the Marshal spelt _Jantilly_. [144] Cited by Desnoiresterres, _Épicuriens et lettrés_, p. 253. [145] _Manuscrit trouvé à la Bastille_ (1789), p. 15. [146] _Œuvres de l'Abbe de Voisenon_ (edit. 1781), iv. 70. [147] According to the official version, of a malignant fever: according to local rumour, of wounds received in a duel with the Prince de Conti, with whom he had a long-standing quarrel. The Marshal's biographer, M. Saint-René Taillandier, inclines, we observe, to the latter view; but the evidence he adduces does not seem to us altogether satisfactory. [148] Compardon, _Les Comédiens du Roi de la Troupe italienne_, ii. 210. [149] Desnoiresterres, _Épicuriens et Lettrés_, p. 315. [150] Cited by Gueullette, _Acteurs et Actrices du Temps passé_, p. 260. [151] Hawkins, "The French Stage in the Eighteenth Century," i. 355. [152] Edmund de Goncourt, _Mademoiselle Clairon_, p. 4. [153] _Mémoires de Mademoiselle Clairon_ (edit. 1799), p. 235. [154] _Mémoires de Mademoiselle Clairon_, p. 166 _et seq._ [155] Mlle. Balicourt played queens and princesses, and had probably impersonated the Queen Elizabeth of Thomas Corneille's play on the evening when Clairon visited the Comédie. She made her _début_ in 1727, and retired in 1738, on account of ill-health. [156] Ravaisson, _Archives de la Bastille_, xii. 348. "Mlle. Clairon contrived, during the early part of her career, to have three lovers at a time constantly in her train--one whom she deceived, one whom she received _à la derobée_, and one who lived on sighs."--"Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach," i. 220. [157] Charles Spencer, third Duke of Marlborough, and fifth Earl of Sunderland (1706-1758). He was, at this time, colonel of the 28th Foot, and, the following year, commanded a brigade at the battle of Dettingen. The name is written Mar*** in the French edition of Mlle. Clairon's Memoirs, but in full in the German. [158] Cited by Campardon, _Les Comédiens du Roi de la Troupe française_. [159] Cited by Edmond de Goncourt. [160] Hawkins, "The French Stage in the Eighteenth Century," i. 375.