comedy, and thus you will gain two hours." With that, he left the Hôtel and could never be persuaded to return to the Duchess's house. Quotations "Pride and conceit were the original sins of man." "Facts are stubborn things." Works Translations and adaptations Le Traître puni, 1700 Don Félix de Mendoce, 1700 Point d'honneur, 1702 (French version) Second Book of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, 1704 Orlando innamorato, 1721 Guzman d'Alfarache, 1732 (French version) Plays Don César Ursin, 1707 (French version) Les Étrennes, 1707 Crispin rival de son maître, 1707 (French version) Turcaret, 1709 Arlequin roi de Serendib, 1713 La Foire de Guibray, 1714 Arlequin Mahomet, 1714 La Statue merveilleuse (fair play, with d'Orneval), 1720 (French version) La Boîte de Pandore 1721, comedy in 1 act. Novels Le Diable boiteux, 1707. (French version) (tr. The Devil upon Two Sticks, The Devil on Two Sticks; English 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. Les avantures de monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchêne, capitaine de flibustiers dans la Nouvelle-France, 1732 (French version) Le Bachelier de Salamanque, 1736. (French version) Estevanille Gonzalez, 1732* * La Valise trouvée, 1740 (French version) Mélange amusant de saillies d'esprit et de traits historiques les plus frappants, 1743 Bibliography Francis Assaf - Lesage et le picaresque (A.-G. Nizet, 1983) Christelle Bahier-Porte - La Poétique d'Alain-René Lesage (Champion, 2006) V. Barberet - Lesage et le théâtre de la foire (Paul Sordoillet, 1887), (Slatkine Reprints, 1970) Roger Laufer - Lesage ; ou, Le métier de romancier (Gallimard, 1971) Tobias Smollet's Prefatory Memoir in his 1893 English translation of Le Sage's "The Adventures of Gil Blas" References Attribution: That entry includes a long critical appraisal by Saintsbury. External links Alain-René Lesage on data.bnf.fr 1668 births 1747 deaths People from Sarzeau 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 18th-century French lawyers French translators Spanish–French translators 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers 18th-century French novelists