Queens of the French Stage

by H. Noel Williams

[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.