CHRONOLOGY OF THE WORKS OF MARIVAUX.
(Taken from the third appendix of Larroumet's "Marivaux", edition of 1882, pp. 592-596.)
[Note: T.I. indicates the Théâtre-Italien and T.F. the Théâtre-
Français.]
1706. Le Père prudent et équitable, ou Crispin l'heureux fourbe,
comedy in one act, in verse, printed in 1712.
1712. Pharsamon, ou les Folies romanesques, novel in ten parts,
printed in 1737.
1713-1714. Les Aventures de…, ou les Effets surprenants de la sympathie, novel in five volumes. La Voiture embourbée, novel in one volume.
1715. Le Triomphe du Bilboquet, ou la Défaite de l'Esprit, de l'Amour
et de la Raison.
1717. L'Iliade travestie, in twelve books and in verse,
Le Télémaque travesti, in three books, printed in 1736.
1717-1718. Five Lettres contenant une aventure, four Lettres à madame…, contenant des réflexions sur la populace, les bourgeois et les marchands, les hommes et les femmes de qualité,—et les beaux esprits, in le Mercure for August, September and October, 1717, March and June, 1718.
1717. Portrait de Climène, ode anacréontique in le Mercure for
September,
Lettre écrite à l'auteur du Mercure (October), to object to the
agnomen of Théophraste moderne.
1719. Pensées sur divers sujets: sur la clarté du discours, sur la pensée sublime, in le Mercure for March.
1720. March 4. L'Amour et la Vérité, comedy in three acts, in collaboration with the Chevalier de Saint-Jory. T.I. Prologue inserted in le Mercure for March. October 19. Annibal, tragedy in five acts and in verse, T.F. Four representations, one of which at the court. October 20. Arlequin poli par l'Amour, comedy in one act. T.I. Twelve representations.
1722. May 3. The first Surprise de l'Amour, comedy in three acts. T.I. Sixteen representations. Compliment, in prose and verse, to Mlle. Sylvia. Réflexions sur le Romulus de la Motte, pamphlet.
1722-1723. Le Spectateur français, journal in twenty-five leaflets.
1723. April 6. La Double Inconstance, comedy in three acts. T.I. Number of representations unknown: break in the registers of the theatre, from March to June.
1724. February 5. Le Prince travesti, comedy in three acts. T.I.
Sixteen representations.
July 8. La Fausse Suivante, comedy in three acts. T.I. Thirteen
representations.
December 2. Le Dénouement imprévu, comedy in one act. T.F. Six
representations.
1725. March 5. L'Ile des Esclaves, comedy in one act. T.I. Twenty-one
representations.
August 19. L'Héritier de Village, comedy in one act. T.I. Six
representations.
1727. September 11. Les Petits Hommes, ou l'Ile de la Raison, comedy
in three acts. T.F. Four representations. Received August 3.
December 31. The second Surprise de l'Amour, comedy in three
acts. T.F. Fourteen representations. Received January 30.
1728. April 22. Le Triomphe de Plutus, comedy in one act. T.I. Twelve
representations.
L'Indigent philosophe ou l'Homme sans souci, journal in seven
leaflets.
1729. April 18. La Nouvelle Colonie, ou la Ligue des Femmes, comedy
in three acts. T.I. Number of representations unknown. Reduced
later to one act, to be played in the théâtres de société;
published in this form in le Mercure for December, 1750.
1730. January 23. Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, comedy in three
acts. T.I. Fourteen representations.
1731-1741. La Vie de Marianne, ou les Aventures de Madame la comtesse
de…, novel in eleven parts.
1731. November 5. La Réunion des Amours, comedy in one act, T.F. Nine
representations. Received October 4.
1732. May 12. Le Triomphe de l'Amour, comedy in three acts. T.I. Number of representations unknown. June 8. Les Serments indiscrets, comedy in five acts. T.F. Nine representations. Received March 9, 1731. July 26. L'Ecole des Mères, comedy in one act. T.I. Fourteen representations.
1733. June 6. L'Heureux Stratagème, comedy in three acts. T.I.
Eighteen representations.
1734. Le Cabinet du Philosophe, journal in eleven leaflets.
August 6. La Méprise, comedy in one act. T.I. Three
representations.
November 6. Le Petit-Maître corrigé, comedy in three acts. T.F.
Two representations. Received September 21.
1735. May 9. La Mère confidente, comedy in three acts, T.I. Seventeen representations.
1735. Le Paysan parvenu, novel in five parts.
1736. January 11. Le Legs, comedy in one act. T.F. Seven
representations. Received April 20, 1735.
1737. March 16. Les Fausses Confidences, comedy in three acts. T.I.
Number of representations unknown.
1738. July 7. La Joie imprévue, comedy in one act. T.I. Number of
representations unknown.
1739. January 13. Les Sincères, comedy in one act. T.I. Number of
representations unknown.
1740. November 19. L'Épreuve, comedy in one act. T.I. Twenty
representations.
1743. February 4. Discours de réception to the French Academy.
1744. August 24. Réflexions sur les progrès de l'esprit humain, read
before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for June,
1755, under the title of Réflexions sur Thucydide.
October 19. La Dispute, comedy in one act. T.F. One
representation.
December 29. Réflexions sur les différentes sortes de gloire,
read before the French Academy; printed in le Mercure for March,
1751, under the title of Réflexions sur les hommes.
1746. August 6. Le Préjugé vaincu, comedy in one act. T.F. Seven
representations.
1748. April 4. Réflexions sur l'esprit humain, in the form of a
letter read before the French Academy.
1749. August 24. Réflexions sur Corneille et sur Racine, read before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for April, 1755, under the title of Réflexions sur l'esprit humain à l'occasion de Corneille et de Racine. September 24. Continuation of the same reading.
1750. August 25. Continuation of the same reading. December 27. Compliment addressed in the name of the French Academy to the Chancellor de Lamoignon; inserted in le Mercure for March, 1751.
1751. January 8. Compliment addressed in the name of the French Academy to the garde des sceaux. August 24. Réflexions sur les Romains et sur les anciens Perses, read before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for October, 1751.
1754. L'Éducation d'un prince, dialogue, in le Mercure, first volume for December.
1757. Les Acteurs de bonne foi, comedy in one act, published in le Conservateur for November, 1757. March 5. Reading and reception at the Comédie-Française of Félicie, comedy in one act, not played; published in le Mercure for March, 1757. Date unknown. Lettre à une dame sur la perte d'un perroquet (in verse).