Excerpt from Chefs-d'OEuvre Comiques des Successeurs de Moliere, Vol. 1: Baron Et Dufresny Du moins, en s'achevant, avait-elle etabli sur une base solide un genre appele a lui survivre et a faire for tune la comedie de moeurs, dont notre theatre subsiste aujourd'hui encore. Grace a l'honnete et laborieux Lesage, la comedie du siecle de Louis XIV ne disparaissait pas sans avoir legue un modele a l'art dramatique et assure l'avenir du theatre francais. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.