, je n'aurais pas vraisemblablement écrit tant de néants plus ou moins spirituels, mais j'aurais eu plus de jours heureux que je n'ai eu d'instants supportables..." Marivaux acknowledges his fondness of ease and idleness elsewhere, as well as in this letter,[40] and it would certainly seem natural, from what we know of the man, to accept his own statement.

However, that same year, Marivaux amply

to the solicitation of a friend of hers, Marivaux consented to pay her his respects, but on condition that he might keep his incognito.

the outrageous reception of his Serments indiscrets by the public, Marivaux contented himself by saying: "Au reste, la représentation de cette pièce-ci n'a pas été achevée;

" Marivaux excels in his portrayal of the ingénue and of the coquette, but perhaps no rôle is more sympathetically developed than that of the young widow, now tender and yielding like Araminte of the Fausses Confidences, now vivacious and positive, but no less

brilliant conversationalist, Marivaux excelled

Watteaupour toute plume qui n'a pas signé: Marivaux ou Crébillon fils.

At the age of eighteen (1706), and shortly after leaving college, Marivaux made his début in literature as the result of a discussion in which he maintained that a comedy was not a difficult thing to write.

As has been said, Marivaux not infrequently omits the direct object pronoun in similar constructions.

Marivaux has introduced into a number of his plays peasants of the cunning, calculating, Norman type, who speak a Norman patois, which

Marivaux joined also in the well

Occasionally Corneille, like Marivaux here, employs it to denote a man loved.

Of his character study of M. de Climal, Marivaux was justly proud.

Dans le Marivaux publiciste, il n'y a pas même une idée fausse.

. Marivaux refers to the ferme générale, a syndicate of capitalists that exploited the taxes levied

" Marivaux took the rôle, and, choosing a few passages, read into them all of their hidden meaning, with the fluent ease and