A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux

by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

[48] Lesbros de la Versane, p. 27.

[49] D'Alembert, Éloge, p. 258.

[50] See Lesbros de la Versane, p. 36, and d'Alembert, Éloge, p. 258.

[51] Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage, p. 241.

[52] Marivaux, le Spectateur français, 1e feuille. Oeuvres, tome IX, p. 6.

[53] See Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage, p. 63.

[54] It was not, however, until 1689 that the Hôtel des comédiens du Roi, entretenus par Sa Majesté installed itself on the rue des Fossés-Saint- Germain, and took the title of Comédie-Française.

[55] As early as 1548 a troupe of Italian comedians had performed at Lyons, for the entrance of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici.

[56] On Oct. 12, 1707, their ranks were increased by Dominique fils, particularly clever in the rôles of Trivelin.

[57] "The name indicates a type. It is, moreover, about the same with the Théâtre-Français of this epoch. The mothers are called Argante; the widows, Araminte; the artless girls, Angélique or Lucile; the lovers, Dorante, Éraste, Ergaste; the old men, Géronte; the valets, Crispin, Frontin, Trivelin; the peasants, Blaise, etc." Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage, pp. 63-64.