Guimard, Fabien (father of Mlle. Guimard), 101, 102
Guimard, Marie Madeleine, birth and parentage, 101, 112; education, 103; joins the _corps de ballet_ of the Comédie-Française, 103; her _liaison_ with the dancer Léger, 104, 105; and with the financier Bertin, 105; makes her _début_ at the Opera, 105; her success in _Castor et Pollux_, 105, 106; growing in favour, 106; her dancing “the poetry of motion,” 106, 107; her personal appearance, 107, 108; her adorers, 108; her _liaison_ with La Borde, 108, 109; marriage of her daughter by him, 109, 110; accepts the “protection” of the Prince de Soubise, 110; unrivalled in magnificence, 110, 111; her appearance at Longchamps, 111; her suppers, 111; her theatre at Pantin, 112, 113; Jarente, Bishop of Orléans, becomes her lover, 113; and allows her to control the _feuille des bénéfices_, 114; her generosity, 114-116; her hôtel in the Chaussée d’Antin, 116-118; befriends Jacques Louis David, the painter, 118, 119; Fragonard’s practical joke at her expense, 119; inauguration of her private theatre in the Chaussée d’Antin, 119; compelled to give La Borde his _congé_, 120, 121; fête at her hôtel forbidden by Louis XVI., 121, 122; her triumph in _La Chercheuse d’esprit_, 123; and in _Ninette à la Cour_, 124; other successes, 124; Dorat’s verses to her, 124, 125; the cause of much trouble to the administration of the Opera, 125-128; receives a pension, 128; has a narrow escape of her life, 128; in the fire at the Opera-House in the Haymarket, 129; has her arm broken, 129; resigns the pension allowed her by the Prince de Soubise, 129-131; disposes of her hôtel in the Chaussée-d’Antin by lottery, 132, 133; her visits to England, 134, 135; caricature of her, 136; marries Jean Étienne Despréaux, 136-138; loses her pensions during the Revolution, 138; goes to live at Montmartre, 138, 139; her charms celebrated by her husband in verse, 139; her last performance, 145; her “theatre,” 140, 141; her death, 141
Guimard, Marie Madeleine the younger, her birth, 109; acknowledged by her parents, 109; her marriage, 109, 110; her mother’s grief at her death, 110
Hawkins, Mr. Frederick (cited), 145 note, 258 note
Hebditch, David, his evidence at the inquest on the Comte and Comtesse d’Antraigues, 320-341