Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX Actrice nouvelle, F, Poisson's, 151 Adrienne Lecouvreur, Scribe and Legouve's, 129 and note, 182 note Aiguillon, Duc d', 163 Aiguillon, Duchesse, 319, 337 Aisse', Mlle., 140,180,184 note, 186; (cited) 180-183, 188-190, 192 note Alexandre, Racine's, 26, 92 Allainval, Abbe' d', 129; (cited) '34,145. '99 Amours de Bastien et Bastienne, Justine Favart's performance in, 268 Amphitryon, Moliere's, 49, 155 Andromaque, Racine's, 11 note, 93 Anne of Austria, Queen of France, 27 Anne Ivanovna, Duchess of Cour- land, 173, 174, 175 Anspach, Margrave of, his char- acter and personal appearance, 340, 341; falls in love with Mlle. Clairon and invites her to An- spach. 341 ; "the sweetest and kindest of beings," 342 ; discards Mlle. Clairon for Lady Craven, 344-346 Anspach, Margravine of, 340, 341, 344, 345, 346. Antiochus et CUopatre, Deschamps', 154 Argental, d', 164-168, 169, 193 note Ariane, Mlle. de Champmesle''s performance in, 99. Arles, Council of, excludes the actor from the Sacraments, 66, bl Attila, Pierre Corneille's,26,97note Aubry, Sebastian, 13 Augustus II., Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, 169, 170, 174, 176 Aunillon, Abbe, 179. A-vare, Moliere's, 78 B Bachaumont, (cited) 293 note, 328, 335 note, 337 note Bajazet, 98, 337. Balicourt, Mlle., 228 and note Barbier, (cited) 161, 213, 301 Barbier d'Aucour, 102 Bauffremont, Marquis de, 318 Baron, Michel, 56-58, 63, 75, 94, '47, 15', IS2, '59 Bayle, 8, 41 Bazin, 9, 44 Beaumarchais, 325 Beaumenard, Mlle., mistress of Maurice de Saxe, 239, 243 note Beffara, 9, 15, 211 note Bejart, Armande, her marriage with Moliere, 3; controversy concerning her parentage, 7-20; accompanies the II lust re Th... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.