A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux

by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

[157] The one exception is in the case of Crébillon, already noted.

[158] De La Porte, p. 8. D'Alembert, Éloge, p. 298, note 25.

[159] See Marivaux, Oeuvres, tome X, p. 547.

[160] Ibid., pp. 550-551.

[161] D'Alembert, Éloge, pp. 295-296, note 23.

[162] Marivaux, Oeuvres, tome X, p. 552.

[163] D'Alembert, Éloge, p. 239.

[164] The registers of the French Academy (see Larroumet, Marivaux, p. 629) and d'Alembert (Éloge, p. 261) assign as the date of his death February 12; but l'Abbé de La Porte, p. 10), Lesbros de la Versane (p. 40), and Collé (Journal historique, tome II, p. 288) give the date as February 11.

[165] D'Alembert, Éloge, p. 261.

[166] Collé, Journal historique, tome II, p. 288.