Chapter 21

Abingdon, Lord,455Adam, Father,435,486,521“Adélaïde du Guesclin,”71;produced,72“Agathocle,”525;produced,561“Akakia, Diatribe of Doctor,”266-8,270,274;published,260,265Alain, Maître,13Alembert, d’,141,213,251,345-6,424,460,538,543,546,550,555,556,559-562;history, character, and visit to Délices,323-6;and the “Geneva” Article,336,337;withdraws from “Encyclopædia,”370;visits Ferney,500-502Algarotti, Comte,84,102,118,132,229-231Alliot (commissioner to Stanislas),201,236“Alzire,”82,213,551;produced,87“Amulius and Numitor,”6Ancian (curé of Moens),353,404-405“Annals of the Empire,”272;published,296-7Annecy, Biort, Bishop of,351,354,404,477,483-5“Anti-Machiavelli” (Frederick the Great’s),128,133Aremberg, Duc d’,125Argens, Marquis d’,229,230,253,335Argenson, the Comtes d’,5,123,164,294,322,329Argental, Comte d’,5,123,168,188,209,223,246,299,375,393,529,540,542Arnaud, Baculard d,’216-17,224,227,243;his quarrel with Voltaire,233-5Arnould, Sophie,534Arouet, Armand,2,3,4,8,25,31;his death and character,156Arouet, Madame,2;her death,3Arouet, Maître,7-13,23;position, character, and marriage,1;at performance of “Œdipe,”25-6;his death,31“Art of War, The” (Frederick the Great’s),244-6Artois, Comte d’,541,542,544“Assyrian War Chariots,”333Audibert.SeeCalas,and516Aumard, d’, lives with Voltaire,376“Babouc,”178,215Barbara (“Bonne-Baba,” servant),436,523,559Bazincourt, Mlle. de,396-7Beaudrigue, David de (magistrate).SeeCalas;seeSirvensBeaumont, Elie de (barrister).SeeCalas;seeSirvensBeauregard (spy),19,32Beauteville, de (French envoy),465,470Beauvau, Prince, de,532,544Belbâtre (musician),533“Belle-et-Bonne” (Mlle. de Varicourt, after Marquise de Villette),517,524,544,553,561,564-6Bellecour (actor),532Bernières, M. and Mme. de,36,38,40,41,47,49,65,117,120Bernis, Abbé (“Babet”),333,344,493Berri, Duchesse du,17,18,19Berthe (playwright),522Bettinelli (writer),349-350Bigex (copyist),476,521Boccage, Mme. du (poetess),342Boerhaave, Doctor,94Boisy, M. de,350,352Bolingbroke, St. John, Lord,30,36,48-51“Bolingbroke, Defence of Lord,”261,348Bombelles, Mme. de (affair of),508Boswell, James,52,468-9Boufflers, de,441Boufflers, Duchesse de,145Boufflers, Mme. de,184-7,195,201,202,203Bourbon, Duc de,41,45,541“Boursouffle,”110,174Boyer, Bishop of Mirepoix,146-7,178,219,250,333Brenles, M. de (lawyer),301,308,319Breteuil, Abbé de,109-111,115Brettwitz, Lieutenant.SeeFrankfortBrizard (actor),544Brosses, Président de,351,352-3,409Brunswick, Duke of,153“Brutus,”50,54,61,63;produced,63Buffon, Comte de,253,506Burney, Doctor,358,497,500Byng, Admiral, Voltaire’s advocacy of,326-8“Cabals, The,”518Calas (the affair of),412-428,437,443-5,491,565Calmet, Dom,300“Calumny, Epistle on,”71,76“Campaigns of the King,”315;andsee“Louis XV., Century of”“Candide,”328,345;published,371-373“Canning, Elizabeth, History of,”425.SeeCalasCartesian System,101-104Casanova,349Castres, Bishop of.SeeSirvens“Catechism of an Honest Man,”439Catherine II. of Russia (Catherine the Great),358,453,487,493,560,562Caumartin,14,15,74Cazeing.SeeCalasChabanon,469,471-2,516Chabrillant, Colonel,470Champbonin, Mme. de,80,98,108,112-114,122,123,184,208Charles VI., Emperor of Austria, death of,134“Charles XII., History of,”54-5,60,62-3;published,64-6Chasot, Major,229,239Châteauneuf, Abbé de,2,3,5;death of,6Châteauneuf, Marquis de,10-12Châtelet, Emilie de Breteuil, Marqise du,39,71,73,74,83,84,85,87,90,93seq.,128,150,157,164,165,171,179,188,192,235,291-2,341,350,359-60;birth and education,74;marriage and character,74-5;visits Voltaire,75;at Richelieu’s wedding,76;in Paris,76;as Voltaire’s mistress,77-8;arrives at Cirey,80;her children,81;in the affair of “Le Mondain,”93;as a scientific student,102;writes “Essay on Fire,”105;during Mme. de Graffigny’s visit,106-116;quarrels with her,112-13;life with Voltaire,114-15;in Desfontaines’ affair,119-23;visits Brussels, Enghien, Paris,124-6;her attitude towards Frederick,130-2;work at Fontainebleau,133;quarrel and reconciliation with Voltaire,138;dissipation in Paris,140;marriage of her daughter,149;her discontent with Voltaire,153;adventure in Paris,156;illness of her son,157;at the Duchesse du Maine’s,172-4;passion for play and flight from court,175-176;acting at Sceaux,179;adventure on way to Cirey,184;life there,184;her love affair with Saint-Lambert,185-8;its discovery by Voltaire,193-6;its consequences,197;studies and life in Paris,198-200;life at Lunéville,200-201;her last illness and death,202;her possessions,203;her character and influence on Voltaire,200-208Châtelet, Louis du,81,82,157,188Châtelet, Marquis du,73,75,78,81,110,114,121,123,140,197,202,207,208Châtelet, Pauline du,81,111,149Chaulieu, Abbé,8,18,67,335Chaumont, affair of, 439 seq.Chazel.SeeCalasChesterfield, Lord,53,139,141,227,251,252Choiseul, Duc de,339,349,374,375,468,492,502-3Choiseul, Duchesse de,491,504-505“Christian against Six Jews, A,”499,522“Christian Dialogues,”373Cideville,5,36,63-4,76“Civil Wars of France, An Essay upon the,”54“Civil War of Geneva, The,”467Clairaut (mathematician),101,198Clairon, Mlle. (actress),211,313,394,500,540;to stay at Ferney,454Clarke, Samuel,53Clausade.SeeCalasClement (writer),518Collini (servant-secretary),225,301,304,310;becomes Voltaire’s secretary,264;his part in the flight from Prussia,265-285;his dismissal,320-2Condorcet, Marquis de,500-501,550,559Conduit, Mrs.,53Congreve,53,56“Consolation, Letter of,”49Cormont, Vaugrenant de,430Corneille, Claude Étienne,435“Corneille Commentary, The,”408-409Corneille, Marie,430,442,527;adopted by Voltaire,397-400;her marriage,435Coste, Doctor,267Covelle (case of),466-7Coyer, Abbé,365,409Cramer, the brothers (publishers),305,340,396Cramer, Mme.,340,432“Crébillon, Éloge de,”411Crébillon, Prosper-Jolyot de (playwright),61,189,198,210,213,305;his death,411“Critical Letter to a Fine Gentleman of Paris,”160“Cry of Innocent Blood, The,”460Damiens,329Damilaville (Parisian correspondent),410,443,455;his death,479Darget (Frederick’s secretary), his character,229;Frederick’s epigram on his wife,233;intercedes for Voltaire,241-2;as friend of La Beaumelle,254;leaves Frederick,255“Death of Cæsar, The,”64,84,149,189,242Decroze,404-405Deffand, Mme. du,70,77,164,184,531,548,556;visits Voltaire in Bastille,47;as his correspondent,297,341;visits him in Paris,536Delaunay (Governor of Bastille),46-7Délille, Abbé,549Denis, Mme. Louise Mignot,79,98-99,192,209,223,300seq.,331-332,340,344,352-4,358,361,367-8,374-6,470,507,515,517,524,535,536,542-3,546,554,559;her marriage,99;Voltaire stays with her,139;death of her husband,153;comes to live with Voltaire,211;left in charge of his house,218;invited to Potsdam,222-3,226;in love with Ximenès,246;writes “Punished Coquette” and exposes Longchamps,255;in affair of Frankfort,277-85;extravagance in Paris,295;joins Voltaire at Plombières,299;settling into Délices,309;steals MSS.,315;described by Mme. d’Épinay,339;as an actress,342;complicity with La Harpe,474-6;returns to Ferney,487;in Voltaire’s last illness,553-7;sells his library and Ferney,561;marries Duvivier,561Denis, M.,99,139;his death,153Denon (artist),516Desfontaines, Abbé, his quarrel with Voltaire,117-23Desforts (controller-general),60Desmares, Mlle. (actress),211Desmarets, M.,112-14“Dialogue between a Priest and a Protestant Minister,”466Diderot,213,324,445“Disaster of Lisbon, The,”346,370;published,317-19“Discourses on Man,”80,84,87Dodington, Bubb,51Dorn.SeeFrankfortDubarry, Mme.,494,507-8,534Dubois, Cardinal,32,34,36,40Ducis (playwright),561Dumesnil, Mlle. (actress),145Dumolard (librarian),134Dunoyer, Olympe (“Pimpette”), her love affair with Voltaire,10-14Dupuits, Mme.SeeCorneille, MarieDupuits, Mlle.,435,442Dupuits, M.,434,476,541,546Duval.SeeLa BarreDuvivier,542,546,561


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