Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux was born in Paris on 4 February 1688, the son of a director of the Mint at Riom. He studied law in Paris from 1710, before turning to letters. Ruined around 1720 by the collapse of Law's system, he wrote some forty comedies, some of them for the Comédie-Italienne, and two novels that were left unfinished. Elected to the Académie française in 1742, he was preferred there to Voltaire. He died in Paris on 12 February 1763.

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• TheatreThe Island of SlavesL'Île des esclavesPierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux · 1725LiteraturePublic domain