SeeFrankfort;and275,334,375Oldfield, Mrs. (actress),57Olivet, Abbé d’,5,6,168,213;his death,479“Olympie,”410,429;produced,441-2“Opinions of Jean Meslier, Extract of the,”411“Oreste,”214;produced,210-11“Originaux, les,”179“Orphan of China, The,”289-90;produced,313Palissot, Charles (journalist),389-391Panckoucke (publisher),516“Panpan.”SeeGraffignyPatu (poet),314“Peter the Great, The History of,”330-31;published,378Peterborough, Lord,51“Philippics, The,”28“Philosophical Dictionary, The,”252,260,287,325,442-3,461“Philosophical Letters.”See“English Letters”Piccini (musician),532Pictet, the family,340Pigalle (sculptor),497-9“Pimpette.”SeeDunoyerPiron, Alexis (poet),36,46,68,142,189,210,498Poissonnier, Doctor,516Pollnitz, Baron,230-31,273Pompadour, Marquise de,162-6,180-81,213,219,227,279-80,319,329,334,336,344,358,395;her character and friendship for Voltaire,162-3;his verses to her,181;she offers him a cardinal’s hat,319;sends him her portrait,406;death of,442Pompignan, Bishop of Puy,385,388,411Pompignan, Marquis le Franc de, his quarrel with Voltaire,384-8,407,411“Poor Devil, The,”389Pope, Alexander,48,52,56Pope Benedict XIV.,161seq.“Pour, Le, et le Contre.”SeeUraniePrades, Abbé de,268,280“Praise of Hypocrisy, The,”466“Préservatif, Le,”119-20;published,119Prie, Mme. de,41-45,117“Princess of Navarre, The,”154-5;produced,156-7“Prodigal Son, The,”83,89,180;produced,92“Prude, The,”179“Prussians, To the” (Frederick the Great’s),245“Pucelle, The,”78,82,97,110,113,231,272,282,301,303;published,311-12;authorised publication,432-34“Puero Regnante,”19,22Quinault, Mlle. (actress),83,92,144Rameau, J. P. (composer),71,154,155,163,165Raynal, Abbé,214,217,253“Refutation of an anonymous Article, A,”347Regent, the (Philip, Duke of Orleans),17,20,22,26-8,30;his death,40“Reply, A, from an Academician of Berlin,”258-60Ribotte-Charon.SeeCalasRichard (monk),468Richelieu, Duc de,28,29,41,42,61,66,71,75,79,89,150,209,213,333-4,498;his marriage,72;quarrel with Voltaire,198;Voltaire visits him at Lyons,302;in the affair of Byng,326-7;visits Voltaire at Ferney,432;in Paris,534;and on his deathbed,554Richelieu, Duchesse de (Mlle. de Guise),72,83,303Richier (secretary),235-6Rieu (American officer),476,559Rohan, Chevalier de, his quarrel with Voltaire,44-7,61“Rome Sauvée,”44,210,213,226,231,256;produced,213Rousseau, Jean Baptiste (poet),3,7,118,124;quarrels with Voltaire in Holland,34-5;over the “Temple of Taste,”68-9;attacks him in “Bibliothèque Française,”91-92Rousseau, Jean Jacques,146,165,299,370-1,498;his “Discourse on Inequality,”314;remonstrates on “Disaster of Lisbon,”322;his “Letter on Plays,”346;his “New Eloïsa,”401-2;his “Emile” and “Savoyard Vicar,”166,170,181,430-1Roy, Charles (poet),166,170,181Royal Society, the,147Rucker, Councillor.SeeFrankfortRupelmonde, Mme. de,33-5,66“Russia under Peter I.”See“Peter the Great”Saint-Ange, Marquis de,14,18Saint-Julien, Mme.,468,494,516,520,554Saint-Lambert, Marquis de,185,193,197,208,487,532;his character,185;his love affair with Mme. du Châtelet,185-8;his conduct on its discovery,193-6;at the illness and death of Mme. du Châtelet,201-3Saint-Marc, Marquis de,545Saint-Sulpice, de Tersac, Curé of,538,556-7“Samson,”71,564Saurin Controversy, the,347,355Saussure, Mlle. de,507Saxe-Gotha, Duchess of,272,296,317“Scarmentado,”178,215Schmidt Councillor.SeeFrankfortSchoepflin, the brothers (historian and printer),290,296Schouvaloff, Count,378-9“Scotch Girl, The,”390;produced,391-3“Scythians, The,” produced,470Ségur, Comtesse de,548“Seigneurial Rights,”410;produced,411“Semiramis,”66,171,198;produced,189“Semiramis, The Advertisement to,”191“Sermon of Fifty, The,”431“Sésostris,”526Sèvres (affair of the Bridge of),32-3,120Shakespeare, Voltaire’s opinion of, in “English Letters,”55-6;in “Advertisement to Semiramis,”191;in writing to Walpole,479;and in the quarrel with Letourneur,519Sherlock, Martin,361,408,517-19Sirvens (affair of the),446-52Sloane, Sir Hans,54Staal, Mme. de (Mlle. de Launay),18,173,179Stanislas Leczinski (ex-King of Poland),42,63,189-91,193,198,200,207,349;his Court and character,184-5Stormont, Lord,533Suard, Mme.,156,516,546Sully, Duc and Duchesse de,18,30,45,54Swift, Jonathan,48,52,54,56,58“Tancred”(“Aménaïde”),354,430;produced,393“Temple, Epicureans of the,”9“Temple of Glory, The,”164;produced,163-5“Temple of Taste, The,”71,91;published,69-70Tencin, Cardinal de,302,336,340,375;his death,336Tencin, Mme. de,46,67,302,323Terrai, Abbé,365,508,514Tersac, de.SeeSaint-SulpiceTheriot,31,34,38-42,46-9,60,62,83,117,134,190,217,354;fellow-pupil with Voltaire,14;visits Cirey,100;his treachery in Desfontaines’ affair,120-4;visits Délices,432;death of,507Thil, Mlle. du,176,201,202,303,311Thomson, James,48,51Tinois (secretary),235Tissot, Doctor,309Tournemine, Father,5,6,12Travenol Lawsuit,170,172“Treatise on Metaphysics,”80,84,86,203“Treatise on Tolerance,”438-40,444Trinquier (Judge of Mazamet).SeeSirvens“Triumvirate, The,” produced,442Tronchin, Doctor Theodore,303,324,326,350,352,354,376,396;his character and régime,303-4;and the “Geneva” Article,337-8;his “cure” at Geneva,338-40;in Voltaire’s last illnesses,532seq.,546-8,553Tronchin, the family,303-4,310,443Tronchin, Mme.,340Turgot (Comptroller-General),515,527,542Tyrconnel, Lord,230,247;his death,256Unigenitus, the Bull,16,17,220“Uranie, Epistle to,”33;published,66Vallette,376,389Vallière, Duc de la,319Van Duren (printer),129,276“Vanity” published,387-88Vauvenargues, Marquis de,169Végobre (lawyer).SeeCalas and432Vernet, Pastor,308;quarrels with Voltaire,466-7Vestris, Mme. (actress),532,540,545Viguière, Jeannette.SeeCalasVillars, Duc de,396,432,435Villars, Mme. de,145Villars, Maréchal de,29,89,249Villars, Maréchale de,26,29,145Villette, Marquis de,526,527,538,543,545,554,560,562;marries Mlle. de Varicourt,525;at Voltaire’s death and burial,553-4,555,557;and second funeral,563;his death,566Villette, Marquis de.SeeBelle-et-BonneVillevieille, Marquis de,519,525,535,537“Voice, The, of the Sage and the People,”219,250;published,215Voisenon, Abbé,188Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, birth and parentage,1-2;baptism,2;first letter,4;school life,4-7;visits Ninon de l’Enclos,5;first tragedy,6;sees J. B. Rousseau,7;literary leanings,7;studies law,8;wild life in Paris,8-9;sent to Caen and the Netherlands,10;love affair with Olympe Dunoyer,10-14;clerk to Maître Alain,13;writes prize poem and satire,14;visits Saint-Ange and begins “Henriade,”15;at Louis XIV.’s funeral,17;reads “Œdipe” to the Temple,17;introduced to Duchesse du Maine,17;visits Saint-Ange,18;exiled to Sully,18;satires assigned to him,19;interview with Regent,20;in the Bastille,20-2;writes “Henriade,”21;changes his name,22;exiled to Châtenay,22;second interview with Regent,22-3;love affair with Mlle. de Livri,23;acts in “Œdipe,”26;his gains from it,27;stays at Villars,28;at Sully’s and Richelieu’s,29;failure of “Artémire,”29;to Richelieu’s, Sully’s, Bolingbroke’s, and Villars,30;his father’s death,30;his economy,31;his affair with Levi,32;and at the Bridge of Sèvres,33;his trip to Holland,33-5;writes “Epistle to Uranie,”33;quarrels with J. B. Rousseau,34-5;to Cambrai, La Source, and Ussé,35-6;to Paris and Rouen,36;publishing “Henriade,”37;goes to Maisons,38;has smallpox,38-9;produces “Mariamne,”41;visits Forges,41;produces “L’Indiscret,”41;at Court,41-2;quarrels with Rohan,44-6;second imprisonment in the Bastille,46-7;his visit to England,47-59;writes “English Letters,”55-8;at St. Germains,60;engaged in a lottery,60;at death of Adrienne Lecouvreur,61;writes poem on her death,62;his views on actors,62;produces “Brutus,”63;living at Rouen,64;at the death of Maisons,64;produces “Charles XII.,”65-6;produces “Eriphyle,”65;candidate for Academy,66;produces “Zaire,”67;at Court,68;at death of Countess Martel,68;produces “Temple of Taste,”69-70;his protégés,70;visited by Mme. du Châtelet,70;produces “Adélaïde du Guesclin,”72;at Richelieu’s wedding,73;“English Letters” burnt and escape to Cirey,73;first meets Mme. du Châtelet,74;meets her at Sceaux,76;as her lover,76-8;arrives at Cirey,78;goes to Baden,79;life at Cirey,79-80;plans “Prodigal Son,”83;to Lunéville,83;occupations at Cirey,83;“Death of Cæsar” in print,84;his “Treatise” and “Discourses,”84;produces “Alzire,”87;quarrels with Jore,88-9;candidate for Academy,89;as correspondent of Prince Frederick,89-91;