[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.