Academy to the Chancellor de Lamoignon; inserted in _le Mercure_
for March, 1751.

1751. January 8. _Compliment_ addressed in the name of the French
Academy to the _garde des sceaux_.
August 24. _Reflexions sur les Romains et sur les anciens Perses_,
read before the French Academy; inserted in _le Mercure_ for
October, 1751.

1754. _L'Education d'un prince_, dialogue, in _le Mercure_, first
volume for December.

1757. _Les Acteurs de bonne foi_, comedy in one act, published in _le
Conservateur_ for November, 1757.
March 5. Reading and reception at the Comedie-Francaise of
_Felicie_, comedy in one act, not played; published in _le
Mercure_ for March, 1757.
Date unknown. _Lettre a une dame sur la perte d'un perroquet_
(in verse).

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.

[Footnote: The first biographical and literary study upon Marivaux is that
of the Abbe de la Porte, published four years before the former's death in
the _Observateur litteraire_ of 1759, vol. 1, p. 73, etc., reprinted with
additional details in the edition of the _Oeuvres diverses_ de Marivaux,
published in 1765 by Duchesne, and again in the edition of the _Oeuvres
completes_, published in 1781 by the widow Duchesne. It is to this last-
named text that I refer in the introduction. This essay by De la Porte is
quite fair and trustworthy. It is particularly interesting as being the
first. It is followed by an Eloge, or, rather, a contemptuous sketch, for
it is anything but a eulogy, published by Palissot (and de Sivry) in the
_Necrologe des hommes celebres_ of 1764. In 1769 Lesbros de la Versane
published _l'Esprit de Marivaux ou Analectes de ses ouvrages_, preceded by
an _Eloge historique de cet auteur_, "a panegyric without reservation upon
the man and the writer." It is to a reprint of this _Eloge_, published by
Gogue et Nee de la Rochelle, Paris, 1782, that I make my references. These
are the sources from which d'Alembert drew most of the matter for his
_Eloge_, which is characterized by a kindly criticism, that, though
sometimes too severe, does not offend. These four are the principal early
sources from which Marivaux's biographers have drawn, and, if we add
Desfontaines' _Dictionnaire neologique_, published in 1726 (and several
times reprinted), Grimm's _Correspondance litteraire_ (1753-1790), Colle's
_Journal et memoires_ (1748-1772), Marmontel's _Mem