by the widow Duchesne.  It is to this last-named text that I refer in the introduction.  This essay by De la Porte is quite fair and trustworthy.  It is particularly interesting as being the first.  It is followed by an Eloge, or, rather, a contemptuous sketch, for it is anything but a eulogy, published by Palissot (and de Sivry) in the Necrologe des hommes celebres of 1764.  In 1769 Lesbros de la Versane published l’Esprit de Marivaux ou Analectes de ses ouvrages, preceded by an Eloge historique de cet auteur, “a panegyric without reservation upon the man and the writer.”  It is to a reprint of this Eloge, published by Gogue et Nee de la Rochelle, Paris, 1782, that I make my references.  These are the sources from which d’Alembert drew most of the matter for his Eloge, which is characterized by a kindly criticism, that, though sometimes too severe, does not offend.  These four are the principal early sources from which Marivaux’s biographers have drawn, and, if we add Desfontaines’ Dictionnaire neologique, published in 1726 (and several times reprinted), Grimm’s Correspondance litteraire (1753-1790), Colle’s Journal et memoires (1748-1772), Marmontel’s Memoires, published in 1804, those of the President Henault, published by the Baron de Vigan, Paris, 1854, those of the Abbe de Trublet, published in Amsterdam, 1759, and La Harpe’s Cours de litterature ancienne et moderne (see edition by Buchon, Paris, 1825-1826), we shall have almost covered the ground of early sources.  Much of the first part of this note is taken from Larroumet’s Marivaux, p. 14, note 2.]

COLLECTIVE EDITIONS.

MARIVAUX:  Les Comedies de Monsieur de Marivaux, jouees sur le Theatre
    de l’Hotel de Bourgogne, par les Comediens Italiens ordinaires du Roy. 
    Paris, Briasson, 2 vol. in-12, 1732.

MARIVAUX:  Oeuvres de theatre de M. de Marivaux.  A Paris, chez Prault pere,
    4 vol. in-12, 1740.

MARIVAUX:  Oeuvres de theatre de M. de Marivaux, de l’Academie francoise. 
    Nouvelle edition.  A Paris, chez N.B.  Duchesne, rue S. Jacques,
    au-dessous de la Fontaine S. Benoit, au Temple du Gout; 5 vol. in-12,
    avec portrait grave par Chenu d’apres Garand, 1758.

MARIVAUX:  Oeuvres completes.  Paris, chez Gogue et Nee de la Rochelle,
    12 vol. in-8, 1781-1782.

MARIVAUX:  Oeuvres completes de Marivaux de l’Academie Francaise
    (Duviquet).  Paris, Haut-Coeur et Gayet jeune, P.J.  Gayet et
    Dauthereau, 10 vol. in-8, 1825-1830.

WORKS CONSULTED OR REFERRED TO IN THE INTRODUCTION.

BIBLIOTHEQUE FRANCAISE, ou Histoire litteraire de la France.  Tome XXII,
    derniere partie.  Amsterdam, H. du Sauzet, 1736.

FERDINAND BRUNETIERE:  Nouvelles critiques sur l’histoire de la
    litterature francaise.  Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1882.