A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux

by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

[113] AU MOINS, 'Nevertheless.'

[114] CAPABLE. Most editions print incapable, beginning the sentence with s'il, and punctuating with a comma after incapable. The sense is better carried out with such a rendering.

[115] Des biais = Des moyens détournés.

[116] L'EN DÉDIRE = Le démentir.

[117] COMME S'EN ALLANT. See les Fausses Confidences, note 26.

[118] A CE QU'IL EST NÉ = A sa naissance.

[119] C'EST DE DORANTE, for Il est de Dorante: 'It has been painted by Dorante.'

[120] M'EN FAIRE ACCROIRE, 'To impose upon me.'

[121] AVANT QUE DE. See le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, note 93.

[122] This speech of Dorante's and Araminte's answer seem to have inspired Augier and Sandeau in the scene between Bertrand and Hélène, in Mlle. de la Seiglière, Act III, sc. 7.