Note 419 — BOOK I[361]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
"Ne'er did Iphigenia in Aulis laid dead Cause so many tears in all Greece to be shed As, in the fine spectacle shown us to-day, We have wept at the bidding of our Champmeslé."
Marie Desmare (1644-1698), known as Mademoiselle Champmeslé, made her first appearance in 1669, and created the title-rôle in Racine's Iphigénie in 1674, under the poet's directions.—T.