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Marivaux
[ ma-ree-voh ]
noun
- Pierre Car·let de Cham·blain de [pye, r, k, a, r, -, le, d, uh, shah, n, -, blan, d, uh], 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist.
Marivaux
/ marivo /
noun
- MarivauxPierre Carlet de Chamblain de16881763MFrenchTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: novelist Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de (pjɛr karlɛ də ʃɑ̃blɛ̃ də). 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist, noted particularly for his comedies, such as Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard (1730) and La Vie de Marianne (1731–41)
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On such points as the suggestion that he may have owed a debt to Marivaux (in Marianne) and others, little need be said here.
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Marivaux had a particular fancy for it: with the result that he left not a little of his work unfinished.
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In 1731 Marivaux published the first two parts of his best and greatest work, Marianne, a novel of a new and remarkable kind.
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No, cried Marivaux, ask any body but Fontenelle, for he has too much good sense to know any more about it than we do.
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Only the imperial procurer, Chapais-Marivaux, seemed determined on the execution of the sentence.
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