Queens of the French Stage

by H. Noel Williams

[103] Her shoemaker, one Choisy by name, found himself on a sudden overwhelmed with customers. All the ladies of the Court and the town wanted to be shod by the man who made such divine little shoes.

[104] Gaboriau, Les Comédiennes adorées, p. 128.

[105] Correspondance littéraire, vi. 42.

[106] Gaboriau, Les Comédiennes adorées, p. 131.

[107] "While Mlle. de Camargo delighted the Parisians with her dancing, her uncle, Don Juan, employed his time in causing Jews and sorcerers to be burned. Don Juan de Camargo, Bishop of Pampeluna, succeeded Don Diego d'Astorga y Cespedes on July 18, 1720, and was the thirty-fifth Inquisitor-General in Spain."—Castil-Blaze, La Danse et les Ballets, p. 196.

[108] This is no doubt a slip of the pen. Mlle. de Camargo had only been two years on the Paris stage.

[109] Revue rétrospective, Série I. tom. 1. (1833), p. 401. The original letter was, at this time, in the possession of Beffara.

[110] Journal de Barbier, ii. 416.

[111] She was then living in the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs.

[112] Les Comédiennes adorées, p. 144.