In short, Sterzl had no sort of success with women; they dubbed him by the nickname of 'le Paysan du Danube.
Le Paysan du Danube is my particular friend," said the princess with the simple heartiness that was so peculiarly her own.
There was, in fact, a very strong satiric and ironic touch in the author of Marianne, and I do not think that I was too rash when some years ago I ventured to speak of him as "playing Fielding to his own Richardson" in the Paysan Parvenu.
But Fielding was also well acquainted with Marivaux's Paysan Parvenu, and the resemblances between that book and Joseph Andrews are much stronger than Fielding's admirers have always been willing to admit.
Mention has been made of the feminine side of Marivaux's writings, but the Paysan parvenu, published in 1735, some six years before the last publication of Marianne is of an entirely different type.
The passage is from the fifth part of le Paysan parvenu (Oeuvres, tome VIII, p.
Another trait common to Marianne and le Paysan parvenu, and indeed in a degree to all of his writings, is his detestation of false piety and his attack upon hypocrisy in all its forms, whether in the person of M.
It is not alone in this style of literature that our author wearies of his theme and drops his pen, for neither of his novels Marianne nor le Paysan parvenu was completed.
He followed Prévost in Nouveaux Mémoires d'un Homme de Qualité as he had followed Marivaux in the Paysan Perverti.
Notwithstanding this comparative oblivion, Le Paysan Parvenu is an almost astonishingly clever and original book, at least as far as the five of its eight parts, which are certainly Marivaux's, go.
Its connexion, and that of Le Paysan parvenu, with the work not only of Richardson but of Fielding is also an interesting though a difficult subject.
In 1735 another novel, Le Paysan parvenu, was begun, but this also was left unfinished.
We suspect that any reader who should nowadays contrast the sickly and sordid intrigue of the Paysan Parvenu with the healthy animalism of Joseph Andrews would greatly prefer the latter.
Resemblances--not of much moment-- have also been traced to the Paysan Parvenu and the Histoire de Marianne of Marivaux.
Different from these was Restif de la Bretonne, who applied Rousseau's theories with less worthy aims in his Paysan perverti and Monsieur Nicolas, ou Le Coeur humain devoile.
Marivaux was wiser in placing his Vie de Marianne and his Paysan parvenu in France.
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