CHRONOLOGY OF THE WORKS OF MARIVAUX.

(Taken from the third appendix of Larroumet's "Marivaux", edition of 1882, pp. 592-596.)

[Note: T.I. indicates the Theatre-Italien and T.F. the Theatre- Francais.]

1706. Le Pere prudent et equitable, ou Crispin l'heureux fourbe, comedy in one act, in verse, printed in 1712.

1712. Pharsamon, ou les Folies romanesques, novel in ten parts, printed in 1737.

1713-1714. Les Aventures de…, ou les Effets surprenants de la sympathie, novel in five volumes. La Voiture embourbee, novel in one volume.

1715. Le Triomphe du Bilboquet, ou la Defaite de l'Esprit, de l'Amour et de la Raison.

1717. L'Iliade travestie, in twelve books and in verse, Le Telemaque travesti, in three books, printed in 1736.

1717-1718. Five Lettres contenant une aventure, four Lettres a madame…, contenant des reflexions sur la populace, les bourgeois et les marchands, les hommes et les femmes de qualite,—et les beaux esprits, in le Mercure for August, September and October, 1717, March and June, 1718.

1717. Portrait de Climene, ode anacreontique in le Mercure for September, Lettre ecrite a l'auteur du Mercure (October), to object to the agnomen of Theophraste moderne.

1719. Pensees sur divers sujets: sur la clarte du discours, sur la pensee sublime, in le Mercure for March.

1720. March 4. L'Amour et la Verite, comedy in three acts, in collaboration with the Chevalier de Saint-Jory. T.I. Prologue inserted in le Mercure for March. October 19. Annibal, tragedy in five acts and in verse, T.F. Four representations, one of which at the court. October 20. Arlequin poli par l'Amour, comedy in one act. T.I. Twelve representations.

1722. May 3. The first Surprise de l'Amour, comedy in three acts. T.I. Sixteen representations. Compliment, in prose and verse, to Mlle. Sylvia. Reflexions sur le Romulus de la Motte, pamphlet.

1722-1723. Le Spectateur francais, journal in twenty-five leaflets.

1723. April 6. La Double Inconstance, comedy in three acts. T.I. Number of representations unknown: break in the registers of the theatre, from March to June.

1724. February 5. Le Prince travesti, comedy in three acts. T.I. Sixteen representations. July 8. La Fausse Suivante, comedy in three acts. T.I. Thirteen representations. December 2. Le Denouement imprevu, comedy in one act. T.F. Six representations.

1725. March 5. L'Ile des Esclaves, comedy in one act. T.I. Twenty-one representations. August 19. L'Heritier de Village, comedy in one act. T.I. Six representations.

1727. September 11. Les Petits Hommes, ou l'Ile de la Raison, comedy in three acts. T.F. Four representations. Received August 3. December 31. The second Surprise de l'Amour, comedy in three acts. T.F. Fourteen representations. Received January 30.

1728. April 22. Le Triomphe de Plutus, comedy in one act. T.I. Twelve representations. L'Indigent philosophe ou l'Homme sans souci, journal in seven leaflets.

1729. April 18. La Nouvelle Colonie, ou la Ligue des Femmes, comedy in three acts. T.I. Number of representations unknown. Reduced later to one act, to be played in the theatres de societe; published in this form in le Mercure for December, 1750.

1730. January 23. Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, comedy in three acts. T.I. Fourteen representations.

1731-1741. La Vie de Marianne, ou les Aventures de Madame la comtesse de…, novel in eleven parts.

1731. November 5. La Reunion des Amours, comedy in one act, T.F. Nine representations. Received October 4.

1732. May 12. Le Triomphe de l'Amour, comedy in three acts. T.I. Number of representations unknown. June 8. Les Serments indiscrets, comedy in five acts. T.F. Nine representations. Received March 9, 1731. July 26. L'Ecole des Meres, comedy in one act. T.I. Fourteen representations.

1733. June 6. L'Heureux Stratageme, comedy in three acts. T.I. Eighteen representations.

1734. Le Cabinet du Philosophe, journal in eleven leaflets. August 6. La Meprise, comedy in one act. T.I. Three representations. November 6. Le Petit-Maitre corrige, comedy in three acts. T.F. Two representations. Received September 21.

1735. May 9. La Mere confidente, comedy in three acts, T.I. Seventeen representations.

1735. Le Paysan parvenu, novel in five parts.

1736. January 11. Le Legs, comedy in one act. T.F. Seven representations. Received April 20, 1735.

1737. March 16. Les Fausses Confidences, comedy in three acts. T.I. Number of representations unknown.

1738. July 7. La Joie imprevue, comedy in one act. T.I. Number of representations unknown.

1739. January 13. Les Sinceres, comedy in one act. T.I. Number of representations unknown.

1740. November 19. L'Epreuve, comedy in one act. T.I. Twenty representations.

1743. February 4. Discours de reception to the French Academy.

1744. August 24. Reflexions sur les progres de l'esprit humain, read before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for June, 1755, under the title of Reflexions sur Thucydide. October 19. La Dispute, comedy in one act. T.F. One representation. December 29. Reflexions sur les differentes sortes de gloire, read before the French Academy; printed in le Mercure for March, 1751, under the title of Reflexions sur les hommes.

1746. August 6. Le Prejuge vaincu, comedy in one act. T.F. Seven representations.

1748. April 4. Reflexions sur l'esprit humain, in the form of a letter read before the French Academy.

1749. August 24. Reflexions sur Corneille et sur Racine, read before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for April, 1755, under the title of Reflexions sur l'esprit humain a l'occasion de Corneille et de Racine. September 24. Continuation of the same reading.

1750. August 25. Continuation of the same reading. December 27. Compliment addressed in the name of the French Academy to the Chancellor de Lamoignon; inserted in le Mercure for March, 1751.

1751. January 8. Compliment addressed in the name of the French Academy to the garde des sceaux. August 24. Reflexions sur les Romains et sur les anciens Perses, read before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for October, 1751.

1754. L'Education d'un prince, dialogue, in le Mercure, first volume for December.

1757. Les Acteurs de bonne foi, comedy in one act, published in le Conservateur for November, 1757. March 5. Reading and reception at the Comedie-Francaise of Felicie, comedy in one act, not played; published in le Mercure for March, 1757. Date unknown. Lettre a une dame sur la perte d'un perroquet (in verse).