Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (; ; 4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French

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and

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. Marivaux is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous

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for the

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and the

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of Paris. His most important works are '' Le Triomphe de l'amour'', ''

Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard ''The Game of Love and Chance'' (, ) is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. ''The Game of Love and Chance'' was first performed 23 January 1730 by the Comédie Italienne. In this play, a young woman is visited by her b ...

'' and ''

Les Fausses Confidences ''Les Fausses Confidences'' is a three-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Pierre de Marivaux, Pierre de Carlet de Chamberlain de Marivaux. It was first performed on the 16 March 1737 by the actors of the Comédie Italienne at the Hôtel ...

''. He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, '' La Vie de Marianne'' and '' Le Paysan parvenu''.

Life

Marivaux's father was a

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financier whose name from birth was Carlet, but who assumed the surname of Chamblain, and then that of Marivaux. He brought up his family in

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and

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, in the province of

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, where he directed the mint. Marivaux is said to have written his first play, the ''Père prudent et équitable'', when he was only eighteen, but it was not published until 1712, when he was twenty-four. However, the young Marivaux concentrated more on writing novels than plays. In the three years from 1713 to 1715 he produced three novels – ''Effets surprenants de la sympathie''; ''La Voiture embourbée'', and a book which had three titles – ''Pharsamon'', ''Les Folies romanesques'', and ''Le Don Quichotte moderne''. These books are very different from his later, more famous pieces: they are inspired by Spanish romances and the heroic novels of the preceding century, with a certain mixture of the marvelous. Then Marivaux's literary ardour entered a new phase. He parodied

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to serve the cause of Antoine Houdar de La Motte, (1672–1731) an ingenious paradoxer; Marivaux had already done something similar for

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, whose ''Telemachus'' he parodied and updated as ''Le Telemaque travesti'' (written in 1714 but not published until 1736). His friendship with Antoine Houdar de La Motte introduced him to the ''Mercure'', the chief newspaper of France, and he started writing articles for it in 1717. His work was noted for its keen observation and literary skill. His work showed the first signs of what is now called "marivaudage," the flirtatious bantering tone characteristic of Marivaux's dialogues. In 1742 he became acquainted with the then-unknown

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, helping him revise a play, ''Narcissus,'' though it wasn't produced till long afterwards. Marivaux is reputed to have been a witty conversationalist, with a somewhat contradictory personality. He was extremely good-natured but fond of saying very severe things, unhesitating in his acceptance of favours (he drew a regular annuity from

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) but exceedingly touchy if he thought himself in any way slighted. At the same time, he was a great cultivator of sensibility and unsparingly criticized the rising ''philosophes''. Perhaps for this reason,

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became his enemy and often disparaged him. Marivaux's friends included Helvétius,

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and even

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(who allegedly provided him with a pension). Marivaux had one daughter, who became a nun; the duke of Orleans, the regent's successor, furnished her with her dowry.

Literary career

The early 1720s were very important for Marivaux; he wrote a comedy (now mostly lost) called ''L'Amour et la vérité'', another comedy, '' Arlequin poli par l'amour'', and an unsuccessful tragedy, ''Annibal'' (printed 1737). In about 1721, he married a Mlle Martin, but she died shortly thereafter. Meanwhile, he lost all of his inheritance money when he invested it in the

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. His pen now became almost his sole resource. Marivaux had a connection with two fashionable theatres: ''Annibal'' had played at the Comédie Française and ''Arlequin poli'' at the Comédie Italienne. He also endeavoured to start a weekly newspaper, the ''Spectateur Français'', to which he was the sole contributor. But his irregular work ethic killed the paper after less than two years. Thus, for nearly twenty years, the theatre, especially the Comédie Italienne, was Marivaux's chief support. His plays were well received by the actors of the Comédie Française, but were rarely successful there. Marivaux wrote between 30 and 40 plays, the best of which are '' La Surprise de l'amour'' (1722), the ''Triomphe de Plutus'' (1728), ''Jeu de l'amour et du hasard'' (1730) (

The Game of Love and Chance ''The Game of Love and Chance'' (, ) is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. ''The Game of Love and Chance'' was first performed 23 January 1730 by the Comédie Italienne. In this play, a young woman is visited by her b ...

), ''Les Fausses confidences'' (1737), all produced at the Italian theatre, and ''Le Legs'' (1736), produced at the French. At intervals, he returned to journalism: a

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called ''L'Indigent philosophe'' appeared in 1727, and another called ''Le Cabinet du philosophe'' in 1734. But the same causes which had proved fatal to the ''Spectateur'' prevented these later efforts from succeeding. In 1731 Marivaux published the first two parts of his great novel, ''Marianne''. The eleven parts appeared at intervals over the next eleven years, but the novel was never finished. In 1735 another novel, ''Le Paysan parvenu'', was begun, but this also was left unfinished. Marivaux was elected a member of the

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in 1742. For the next twenty years, he contributed occasionally to the ''Mercure'', wrote plays and reflections (which were seldom of much worth), and so forth. He died on 12 February 1763, aged seventy-five.

''Marivaudage''

The so-called ''marivaudage'' is the main point of importance about Marivaux's literary work, though the best of the comedies have great merits, and ''Marianne'' is an extremely important step in the development of the French novel. That, and ''Le Paysan parvenu'', have some connection to the work of

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and

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. In general, Marivaux's subject matter is the so-called "metaphysic of love-making." As Claude Prosper Jolyot Crébillon said, Marivaux's characters not only tell each other and the reader everything they have thought, but everything that they would like to persuade themselves that they have thought. This style derives mainly from Fontenelle and the ''Précieuses'', though there are traces of it even in

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. It abuses metaphor somewhat, and delights to turn a metaphor in an unexpected and bizarre fashion. Sometimes a familiar phrase is used where dignified language would be expected; sometimes the reverse. Crébillon also described Marivaux's style as an introduction of words to each other which have never made acquaintance and which think that they will not get on together (this phrase is itself rather Marivaux-esque). This kind of writing, of course, recurs at several periods of literature, especially at the end of the 19th century. This fantastic embroidery of language has a certain charm, and suits the somewhat unreal gallantry and sensibility which it describes and exhibits. Marivaux possessed, moreover, both thought and observation, besides considerable command of pathos.

Works

Plays

1712 In the Swedish calendar it began as a leap year starting on Monday and remained so until Thursday, February 29. By adding a second leap day, Friday, February 30, Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year (from Saturday, M ...

: ''Le Père prudent et équitable'' *

1720 Events January–March * January 21 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War). * February 10 – Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal for England. * February 17 – The Treaty o ...

: ''L'Amour et la Vérité'' * 1720: '' Arlequin poli par l'amour (Harlequin's Lesson of Love)'' * 1720: ''

Annibal Annibal is the French masculine given name equivalent to Hannibal. It may refer to: People *Annibal Camoux (1638?–1759), French soldier noted for his claimed longevity *Annibal de Coconnas (died 1574), a co-conspirator of Joseph Boniface de La ...

'', his only tragedy *

1722 Events January–March * January 27 – Daniel Defoe's novel '' Moll Flanders'' is published anonymously in London. * February 10 – The Battle of Cape Lopez begins off of the coast of West Africa (and present-day Gabon), ...

: '' La Surprise de l'amour (The Agreeable Surprise)'' *

1723 Events January–March * January 25 – English-born pirate Edward Low intercepts the Portuguese ship ''Nostra Signiora de Victoria''. After the Portuguese captain throws his treasure of 11,000 gold coins into the sea rather th ...

: '' La Double Inconstance (Infidelities)'' *

1724 Events January–March * January 15 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne in favour of his 16-year-old son Louis I. * January 18 – The Dutch East India Company cargo ship '' Fortuyn'', on its maiden voyage, dep ...

: '' Le Prince travesti'' * 1724: '' La Fausse Suivante ou Le Fourbe puni (The False Servant)'' * 1724: ''Le Dénouement imprévu'' *

1725 Events January–March * January 1 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41, which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end. * January 6 &nd ...

: ''

L'Île des esclaves ''L’Île des esclaves'' () is a one-act comedy by Pierre de Marivaux; it was the first of three plays in the series. It was presented for the first time on March 5, 1725 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne by the Comédie Italienne; an actress nam ...

(Slave Island)'' * 1725: ''L'Héritier de village'' *

1726 Events January–March * January 23 – (January 12 Old Style) The Conventicle Act (''Konventikelplakatet'') is adopted in Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services. * January 26 – T ...

: '' Mahomet second'' (unfinished prose tragedy) *

1727 Events January–March * January 1 – (December 21, 1726 O.S.) Spain's ambassador to Great Britain demands that the British return Gibraltar after accusing Britain of violating the terms of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. Britain ...

: ''

L'Île de la raison '' L'Île de la raison (en: The Island of Reason)'' is a social comedy in three acts and in prose by French playwright Pierre de Marivaux, represented for the first time 11 September 1727 by the Comédie-Française. Analysis ''L'Île de la r ...

ou Les petits hommes'' * 1727: ''La Seconde Surprise de l'amour'' *

1728 Events January–March * January 5 – The '' Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de la Habana'', the oldest university in Cuba, is founded in Havana. * January 9 – The coronation of Peter II as the Tsar of t ...

: ''Le Triomphe de Plutus (Money Makes the World Go Round)'' *

1729 Events January–March * January 8 – Frederick, the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain is made Prince of Wales at the age of 21, a few months after he comes to Britain for the first time after growing up in Hanover ...

: '' La Nouvelle Colonie'' lost and then rewritten in 1750 with the title of ''La Colonie'' *

1730 Events January–March * January 30 (January 19 O.S.) – At dawn, Emperor Peter II of Russia dies of smallpox, aged 14 in Moscow, on the eve of his projected marriage. * February 26 (February 15 O.S.) – Anna of Russia ( ...

: ''

Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard ''The Game of Love and Chance'' (, ) is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. ''The Game of Love and Chance'' was first performed 23 January 1730 by the Comédie Italienne. In this play, a young woman is visited by her b ...

(The Game of Love and Chance)'' * 1731: ''La Réunion des Amours'' * 1732: '' Le Triomphe de l'amour (The Triumph of Love)'' * 1732: ''Les Serments indiscrets (Careless Vows)'' * 1732: ''L'École des mères'' *

1733 Events January–March * January 13 – Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of King Sanphet IX. * January 27 – George Frideric Handel's classic opera, ''Orlando'' is performed for the ...

: ''L'Heureux Stratagème (Successful Strategies)'' *

1734 Events January– March * January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia in America. * February 16 – ...

: '' La Méprise'' * 1734: '' Le Petit-Maître corrigé'' * 1734: ''Le Chemin de la fortune'' *

1735 Events January–March * January 2 – Alexander Pope's poem '' Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'' is published in London. * January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera '' Ariodante'' is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent ...

: ''La Mère confidente'' *

1736 Events January–March * January 12 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, becomes the Second Field Marshal of Great Britain. * January 23 – The Civil Code of 1734 is passed in Sweden. * January 26 – Stanislaus I of P ...

: ''Le Legs (The Legacy)'' *

1737 Events January–March * January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parm ...

: ''

(The False Confidences)'' *

1738 Events January–March * January 1 – At least 664 African slaves drown when the Dutch West Indies Company slave ship ''Leusden'' capsizes and sinks in the Maroni River during its arrival in Surinam. The Dutch crew escapes ...

: ''La Joie imprévue'' *

1739 Events January–March * January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean. * January 3 – A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomou ...

: '' Les Sincères (The Test)'' *

1740 Events January–March * January 8 – All 237 crewmen on the Dutch East India Company ship ''Rooswijk'' are drowned when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its second ...

: '' L'Épreuve'' *

1741 Events January–March * January 13 ** Lanesborough, Massachusetts is created as a township. ** Conventicle Act of 1741 is introduced in Denmark-Norway. *February 13 – Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of Great Britain ...

: ''La Commère'' *

1744 Events January–March * January 6 – The Royal Navy ship ''Bacchus'' engages the Spanish Navy privateer ''Begona'', and sinks it; 90 of the 120 Spanish sailors die, but 30 of the crew are rescued. * January 24 – The ...

: '' La Dispute (A Matter of Dispute)'' *

1746 Events January–March * January 8 – The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart occupies Stirling, Scotland. * January 17 – Battle of Falkirk Muir: British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces. * February ...

: '' Le Préjugé vaincu'' * 1750: '' La Colonie'' * 1750: ''La Femme fidèle'' *

1757 Events January–March * January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British East India Company Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. * January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assa ...

: '' Félicie'' * 1757: '' Les Acteurs de bonne foi (The Constant Players)'' *

1761 Events January–March * January 14 – Third Battle of Panipat: In India, the armies of the Durrani Empire from Afghanistan, led by Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition decisively defeat the Maratha Confederacy, killing over 1 ...

: ''La Provinciale''

Journals and essays

1717 Events January–March * January 1 – Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador to the Kingdom of Great Britain, is arrested in London over a plot to assist the Pretender to the British throne, James Francis Edward Stuart. * J ...

–

1718 Events January – March * January 7 – In India, Sufi rebel leader Shah Inayat Shaheed from Sindh who had led attacks against the Mughal Empire, is beheaded days after being tricked into meeting with the Mughals to discuss ...

: ''Lettres sur les habitants de Paris'' * ''Lettres contenant une aventure'' * ''Pensées sur differents sujets'' *

1721 Events January–March * January 6 – The Committee of Inquiry on the collapse of the South Sea Company in Great Britain publishes its findings. * February 5 – James Stanhope, chief minister of Great Britain, dies a day after ...

–

: ''Le Spectateur français'' *

: ''L'Indigent philosophe'' *

: ''Le Cabinet du philosophe''

Novels

1713 Events January–March * January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albemarle County, North Carolina, in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take ...

–

1714 Events January–March * January 21 – After being tricked into deserting a battle against India's Mughal Empire by the rebel Sayyid brothers, Prince Azz-ud-din Mirza is blinded on orders of the Emperor Farrukhsiyar as punishment. * ...

: ''Les Effets surprenants de la sympathie'' * 1714: ''La Voiture embourbée'' — an "improvised" novel (''roman impromptu'') * 1714: ''Le Bilboquet'' * 1714: ''Le Télémaque travesti'' *

1716 Events January–March * January 16 – The application of the Nueva Planta decrees to Catalonia make it subject to the laws of the Crown of Castile, and abolishes the Principality of Catalonia as a political entity, conclud ...

–

: ''L'Homère travesti ou L'Iliade en vers burlesques'' *

: ''Pharsamon ou Les Folies romanesques (Pharsamond, or the New Knight-Errand)''

Unfinished novels

* begun in

: '' La Vie de Marianne (The Life of Marianne)'' * begun in

: '' Le Paysan parvenu (The Upstart Peasant)''

Adaptations

'' Triumph of Love'', a 1997 musical stage adaptation of Marivaux's play '' The Triumph of Love'' had a brief

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run.

Film and television

*', directed by

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(Italy, 1914, short film, based on the play ''

'') *'' Monsieur Hector'', directed by

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(France, 1940, based on the play ''

'') *', directed by

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(Argentina, 1944, based on the play ''

'') *', directed by

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(France, 1967, TV film, based on the play ''

'') *', directed by

(France, 1968, TV film, based on the play '' Double Inconstancy'') *', directed by

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(West Germany, 1978, based on the play '' La Dispute'') *', directed by (France, 1984, based on the play ''

'') *''La Fausse Suivante'', directed by

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(France, 1985, TV film, based on the play '' La Fausse Suivante'') *', directed by

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(France, 1995, TV film, based on the novel '' La Vie de Marianne'') *'' False Servant'', directed by

(France, 2000, based on the play '' La Fausse Suivante'') Marivaux's play '' The Triumph of Love'' (1732) was filmed in English in 2001 as '' The Triumph of Love'', starring

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, and

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. It is, so far, the only one of Marivaux's plays ever to be filmed in English. The film received modestly favourable reviews, but was not a

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success. In the French film ''

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'' (2003), directed by

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, Arab-French adolescents in a Paris suburb prepare and perform Marivaux's play ''

''.

References

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