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ARTicles vol. 1 i.3: A Century of Change
JAN 1, 2003
The Life and Times of Marivaux
1673 Molière dies
1688 Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux is born in Paris on February 4
1694 Voltaire is born
1709 Marivaux’s first play, the one-act comedy The Just and Prudent Father, is produced in Limoges
1712 Rousseau is born
1713 Diderot is born
1715 Louis XIV dies
1716 First performance by the Comédie-Italienne in Paris
1717 Marivaux marries Colombe Bologne
1719 Marivaux’s only child, a daughter, is born
1720 Marivaux’s first full-length comedy, Love and Truth, is performed at the Comédie-Italienne. His only tragedy, Hannibal, closes after one performance at the Comédie-Française
1723 The Double Inconstancy. Colombe Bologne dies, Marivaux never remarries
1724 The False Servant
1725 Island of Slaves
1730 The Game of Love and Chance
1732 The Triumph of Love
1734 Voltaire publishes The Philosophical Letters
1737 False Confessions
1740 The Marquis de Sade is born
1741 Marivaux abandons his unfinished novel The Life of Marianne
1742 Marivaux is elected to the Académie Française
1744 The Dispute
1756 Rousseau begins writing La Nouvelle Heloïse
1757 Marivaux writes his last play, The Actors of Good Faith
1763 Marivaux dies in Paris on February 12
1774 Louis XV dies
1778 Voltaire and Rousseau die
1782 Choderlos de Laclos writes Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1784 Diderot dies. Beaumarchais writes The Marriage of Figaro
1789 The French Revolution begins