Note 156 — Front matter (continued 5)
Reading edition
Ravaisson, Archives de la Bastille, xii. 348.
"Mlle. Clairon contrived, during the early part of her career, to have three lovers at a time constantly in her train—one whom she deceived, one whom she received à la derobée, and one who lived on sighs."—"Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach," i. 220.