Alain-René Lesage

Alain-René Lesage (May 8, 1668, Sarzeau – November 17, 1747, Boulogne), also spelled Le Sage was a French novelist and playwright born at Sarzeau, in the peninsula of Rhuys, between the Morbihan and the sea, Brittany.

Editions

The dates of the original editions of Lesages most important works have already been given. He published during his life a collection of his regular dramatic works, and also one of his pieces for the Foire, but the latter is far from exhaustive; nor is there any edition which can be called so, though the oeuvres choisies of 1782 and 1818 are useful, and there are so-called oeuvres completes of 1821 and 1840. Besides critical articles by the chief literary critics and historians, the work of Eugene Lintilhac, in the Grands écrivains francais (1893), should be consulted. The Diabie boiteux and Gil Blas have been reprinted and translated numberless times. Both will be found conveniently printed, together with Estvansile Gonzales and Guzman d'Aifarache, the best of the minor novels, in four volumes of Gamiers Bibliothique amusante (Paris, 1865). Turcaret and Crispin are to be found in all collected editions of the French drama. There is a useful edition of them, with ample specimens of La Sages work for the Foire, in two volumes (Paris, 1821).

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1782 - 1818 - 1821 - 1840 - 1893 - 1865

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• "Pride and conceit were the original sins of man."
• "Facts are stubborn things."