MARIVAUX. *Les Fausses confidences*, a comedy. Paris: Prault - Lot 111

MARIVAUX. *Les Fausses confidences*, a comedy. Paris: Prault père, 1738. 12mo, red morocco, Jansenist style, interior lace, gilt edges (Noulhac). First edition. (Tchemerzine, vol. IV, p. 416.) This three-act play, written in prose, was performed in 1737 by the King’s Regular Italian Actors. It was a great success and remained in the troupe’s repertoire until the Revolution. It was added to the Comédie-Française’s repertoire, where it was performed more than 700 times between 1793 and 1996. From the Alfred Lindeboom Library (ex-libris).

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