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A Century of Change The Life and Times of Marivaux Unless otherwise stated, all plays are by Marivaux. Only a selection of his work is listed. (reprinted from ARTicles Online vol. 1 no. 3a, January 2003)

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