_Énée et Lavinie_, Sophie Arnould’s appearance in, 15, 16
_Euthyme et Lyris_, Sophie Arnould’s appearance in, 75
_Fausse Lord, le_, incident during a performance of, 302 note
Favart, Justine, gives lessons to Madame Dugazon, 190
Fleury, not indifferent to the charms of Mlle. Contat, 245; attempts to pacify her creditors, 245; always her faithful and devoted friend, 246; his masterly impersonation of Frederick the Great in _Les Deux Pages_, 249 and note; arrested and imprisoned in the Madelonettes, 184; saved by Labussière, 184-186; plays with Mlle. Contat at Bordeaux, 254; (cited), 134, 158, 182, 184, 225, 227, 236, 237, 238, 249 note, 259-261
Fragonard (painter) plays a practical joke on Mlle. Guimard, 119
Gaboriau Émile, (cited) 114, 148, 198, 232, 282, 288, 303, 308
Gaillard, Gabriel Henri, his report to the Government on Beaumarchais’s _Mariage de Figaro_, 233, 234
Geoffroy (critic), his criticisms of Mlle. Contat’s acting, 258
Gluck, invited to Paris by Marie Antoinette, 57; chooses Sophie Arnould for the name-part in _Iphigénie en Aulide_, 57; difficulties with which he has to contend, 57-62; his quaint behaviour at rehearsals, 62, 63; refuses to consent to a postponement of _Iphigénie_, 63; success of his opera, 66; adapts _Orfeo_ for the Paris stage, 66; his quarrel with the Prince d’Hénin at Sophie Arnould’s house, 66-68; production of his _Orphée_, 68; failure of his _Cythère assiégée_, 68, 69; gives lessons in singing to Rosalie Levasseur, 70; chooses her for the part of Alceste in preference to Sophie Arnould, 71, 72; is “the musician of the soul,” 73; attacked in _Le Nouveau Spectateur_, 75; disgraceful treatment of Sophie Arnould by his supporters, 75, 76; his tribute to Sophie Arnould’s talent, 96; his prediction concerning Madame Saint-Huberty, 266; gives her lessons, 274, 275 and note; obtains a post for her husband, 276; his contest with Piccini, 295, 296
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de, (cited) 18, 60
Grétry (composer), 197, 198, 288; (cited) 59, 60, 208
Greuze (painter), his portrait of Sophie Arnould, 19
Grimm (cited), 43, 44, 65, 68, 114, 123, 148, 149, 152 and note, 154, 161, 163, 164, 173, 180, 209, 210, 213, 229, 302 and note, 304
Guichard, lampoons Sophie Arnould, 71, 72