Queens of the French Stage

by H. Noel Williams

[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.