A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux

by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

[38] Ibid., 1e feuille, p. 4.

[39] Lesbros de la Versane, pp. 29, 30.

[40] See Marivaux, le Spectateur français, 1e feuille. Oeuvres, tome XX, p. 9.

[41] Charles Collé, in his Journal et Mémoires, tome II, p. 288, gives the following bit of testimony along this line: "Marivaux était curieux en ligne et en habits; il était friand et aimait les bons morceaux; il était très difficile à nourrir."

[42] Lebros de la Versane, pp. 37-38.

[43] D'Alembert, Éloge, p. 237.

[44] Lebros de la Versane, pp. 27-28. D'Alembert, Éloge, pp. 256-257.

[45] De La Porte, p. 8, and Lesbros de la Versane, p. 26, are agreed as to her name and place of residence. Houssaye, p. 97, gives her name as Mlle. Julie Duriez, but cites no authority.

[46] Reference as above to de La Porte and Lesbros de la Versane.

[47] De La Porte, p. 8, and Lesbros, p. 27. Houssaye, pp. 100-106, relates a pathetic and perhaps wholly fanciful romance, in which Guillaume de Bez and Mlle. Marivaux were the chief actors; but, contrary to the custom of Marivaux's comedies, love did not triumph; the worldly mother married her son unhappily, and the blind father, who thought that he could read so well the heart of woman, immured his daughter in a convent.