ARTicles vol. 1 i.3: A Century of Change

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