LA CHAUSSÉE, Pierre Claude Nivelle de. - Oeuvres choisies. Édition stéréotype, d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot.

Paris: De l'Imprimerie et de la Fonderie Stéréotypes de P. Didot l'ainé, et de Firmin Didot, 1810. 18mo. 2 vols. Vol. 1: 253, [3] p. Vol. 2: 227, [1] p. Red cloth, leather-backed, gilt spines. VG condition. **** La Chaussée (1692-1754) was the originator in France of sentimental comedy, comédie larmoyante as it was nicknamed by his opponents, in which the pathetic element, drawn from the realistic representation of the sufferings of everyday domestic life, outweighs or entirely obliterates the comic.

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