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 _Memoires_, published in 1804, those of the President Henault, published by the Baron de Vigan, Paris, 1854, those of the Abbe de Trublet, published in Amsterdam, 1759, and La Harpe's _Cours de litterature ancienne et moderne_ (see edition by Buchon, Paris, 1825-1826), we shall have almost covered the ground of early sources. Much of the first part of this note is taken from Larroumet's _Marivaux_, p. 14, note 2.] COLLECTIVE EDITIONS. MARIVAUX: Les Comedies de Monsieur de Marivaux, jouees sur le Theatre de l'Hotel de Bourgogne, par les Comediens Italiens ordinaires du Roy. Paris, Briasson, 2 vol. in-12, 1732.