A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux

by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

[28] De La Porte, pp.6-7. Lebros de la Versane, pp. 20-21, repeats the words of de La Porte, without, however, acknowledging the quotation.

[29] D'Alembert, Éloge, p. 242.

[30] Marmontel, Mémoires, livre VII, tome II, pp. 222-224.

[31] There is little, if any, doubt that Marivaux was the author of all three of these productions, as well as of the Télémaque travesti, the authorship of which he denied. For a discussion of the matter, see Larroumet, Marivaux, edition of 1894, p. 25, note 2, pp. 29, 30, notes 1 and 2; Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage, pp. 14, 16, 17, 18; Bibliothèque française, ou Histoire littéraire de la France, Amsterdam, H. Du Sauzet, in-12, t. XXII, dernière partie, 1736, p. 249, etc.

[32] Fournier, Théâtre complet de Marivaux, Notice, p. 6.

[33] Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, tome IX, p. 275.

[34] See note, p. xxxvi.

[35] Marivaux, le Spectateur français, 1e feuille. Oeuvres, tome IX, p. 8.

[36] Marivaux, le Spectateur français, 1e feuille. Oeuvres, tome IX, p. 36.

[37] Ibid., 3e feuille, p. 21.