Note 39 — Chapter VIII · FRENCH OPERA FROM LULLI TO THE DEATH OF RAMEAU.

Among other instances of duels between women may be cited a combat with daggers, which took place between the abbess of a convent at Venice, and a lady who claimed the admiration of the Abbé de Pomponne; a combat with swords between Marotte Beaupré and Catherine des Urlis, actresses at the Hotel de Bourgogne, where the duel took place, on the stage (came of quarrel unknown); and a combat on horseback, with pistols, about a greyhound, between two ladies whom the historian Robinet designates under the names of Mélinte and Prélamie, and in which Mélinte was wounded.