[32] Fournier, Theatre complet de Marivaux, Notice, p. 6.

[33] Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, tome IX, p. 275.

[34] See note, p. xxxvi.

[35] Marivaux, le Spectateur francais, 1e feuille.  Oeuvres, tome IX, p. 8.

[36] Marivaux, le Spectateur francais, 1e feuille.  Oeuvres, tome IX, p. 36.

[37] Ibid., 3e feuille, p. 21.

[38] Ibid., 1e feuille, p. 4.

[39] Lesbros de la Versane, pp. 29, 30.

[40] See Marivaux, le Spectateur francais, 1e feuille.  Oeuvres, tome XX, p. 9.

[41] Charles Colle, in his Journal et Memoires, tome II, p. 288, gives the following bit of testimony along this line:  “Marivaux etait curieux en ligne et en habits; il etait friand et aimait les bons morceaux; il etait tres difficile a nourrir.”

[42] Lebros de la Versane, pp. 37-38.

[43] D’Alembert, Eloge, p. 237.

[44] Lebros de la Versane, pp. 27-28.  D’Alembert, Eloge, pp. 256-257.

[45] De La Porte, p. 8, and Lesbros de la Versane, p. 26, are agreed as to her name and place of residence.  Houssaye, p. 97, gives her name as Mlle. Julie Duriez, but cites no authority.

[46] Reference as above to de La Porte and Lesbros de la Versane.

[47] De La Porte, p. 8, and Lesbros, p. 27.  Houssaye, pp. 100-106, relates a pathetic and perhaps wholly fanciful romance, in which Guillaume de Bez and Mlle. Marivaux were the chief actors; but, contrary to the custom of Marivaux’s comedies, love did not triumph; the worldly mother married her son unhappily, and the blind father, who thought that he could read so well the heart of woman, immured his daughter in a convent.

[48] Lesbros de la Versane, p. 27.

[49] D’Alembert, Eloge, p. 258.

[50] See Lesbros de la Versane, p. 36, and d’Alembert, Eloge, p. 258.

[51] Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage, p. 241.

[52] Marivaux, le Spectateur francais, 1e feuille.  Oeuvres, tome IX, p. 6.

[53] See Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage, p. 63.

[54] It was not, however, until 1689 that the Hotel des comediens du Roi, entretenus par Sa Majeste installed itself on the rue des Fosses-Saint-Germain, and took the title of Comedie-Francaise.

[55] As early as 1548 a troupe of Italian comedians had performed at Lyons, for the entrance of Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici.

[56] On Oct. 12, 1707, their ranks were increased by Dominique fils, particularly clever in the roles of Trivelin.

[57] “The name indicates a type.  It is, moreover, about the same with the Theatre-Francais of this epoch.  The mothers are called Argante; the widows, Araminte; the artless girls, Angelique or Lucile; the lovers, Dorante, Eraste, Ergaste; the old men, Geronte; the valets, Crispin, Frontin, Trivelin; the peasants, Blaise, etc.”  Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage, pp. 63-64.