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.