Marivaux, a French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris; was a man of subtle wit, and his writings reveal it as well as an affectation of style named Marivaudage after him; his fame rests on his novels rather than his dramas (1688‒1763).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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