Marivaux

American  

[ma-ree-voh] / ma riˈvoʊ /

noun

1. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist.

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Marivaux British  

/ marivo /

noun

1. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de (pjɛr karlɛ də ʃɑ̃blɛ̃ də). 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist, noted particularly for his comedies, such as Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard (1730) and La Vie de Marianne (1731–41)

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Example Sentences

The next year, she appeared in a Marivaux play directed by the influential Patrice Chéreau at his Nanterre theater.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2023

Written by Geoffrey Layton and Luc Bondy, based on a play by Pierre de Marivaux.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2017

Miroshnik neatly weaves in a thread of Marivaux-like melancholy; that’s often key to the charm of Marivaux, a dark, honest note amid the intoxicating romantic confusion.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2017

It usually worked and, after all, we were heirs of 18th-Century literary and artistic greats Marivaux and Fragonard - one had to abide by certain cultural, unwritten laws.

From BBC • May 17, 2016

Southey, Longfellow, Swift, Hume, Macaulay, and Emerson, Goethe and Marivaux, all are so unfortunate as to have Mr. Ruskin's pen driven through their names.

From How to Form a Library, 2nd ed by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin