[93] Marie Magdeleine de la Vieuville, Comtesse de Parabère (1693-1750). On her husband's death, in 1716, she became maîtresse en tître of the Regent d'Orléans, which exalted position she occupied for five years, when the prince, wearying of her caprices, replaced her by Madame Ferrand d'Averne.
[94] That of Hortense. According to Titon du Tillet, Adrienne had never been surpassed in this character.
[95] This is not the case.
[96] Lettres de Mademoiselle d'Aissé à Madame Calandrini, p. 234 et seq.
[97] Voltaire wrote and signed the following note: "She died in my arms of an inflammation of the intestines, and it was I who caused an autopsy to be performed. All that Mlle. Aïssé says on the subject are only popular rumours which have no foundation."—Cited by M. Monval.
[98] Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, i. 174. This letter formed part of the last dossier.
[99] The spot where Adrienne was buried was discovered, in 1786, by d'Argental. It was at the south-east angle of the Rues de Grenelle and de Bourgogne, on ground now occupied by No. 115 in the former street. The old man erected a marble tablet, inscribed with some rather indifferent verses of his own composition, to the memory of the actress on an adjoining wall. "This tablet," says M. Monval, "is still preserved by Madame Jouvencel, the present (1892) owner of No. 115 Rue de Grenelle."
[100] Two years before Adrienne's old teacher, Le Grand, had died, also without renouncing his profession. He was, of course, denied Christian burial, but no objection was raised by the curé of Saint-Sulpice to his interment in the unconsecrated portion of the cemetery.
[101] Lettres d'Adrienne Lecouvreur, by M. Georges Monval, p. 67.
[102] La Danse et des Ballets, p. 190.