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.

Works

Translations and adaptions

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• Le Traitre puni
• Point d'honneur (French version)
• Don Felix de Mendoce
• Second Book of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha
• Orlando innamorato, 1721
• Guzman d'Alfarache, 1732 (French version)

Plays

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• Don Cesar Ursin (French version)
• Les Etrennes, 1707
• Crispin rival de son maitre, 1707 (French version)
• Turcaret, 1709

Novels

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• Le Diable boiteux, 1707. (French version)
• Gil Blas (English version, French)
• Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, (Livres I-VI), 1715. (French version)
• Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, (Livres VII-IX), 1724. (French version)
• Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, (Livres X-XII), 1735. (French version)
• Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 1747. -
• Vie et aventures de M. de Beauchesne, 1733 (French version
• Le Bachelier de Salamanque, 1736. (French version)
• Estevanitte Gonzales, 1732
• La Valise trouvee (French version)
• Melange amusant de saitties d'esprit et de traits historiques les plus frappants, 1743