The Meeting of the Loves

the Meeting of the Loves is a heroic Comédie in a act and Prose of Marivaux, represented for the first time by the Comédiens-Français the November 5th 1731 with the Theater of the street of the Saint-Germain Ditches.

The historians of the theater say that this comedy, where there are pretty words and pretty scenes, went up to nine representations only thanks to the set of Misses Gaussin and Dangeville, in the roles of the two Loves.

Characters

the Love .
Cupid .
Mercury .
Plutus .
Apollo .
the Truth .
Minerve .
the Virtue .

History

All the characters of the Meeting of the Loves being gods, the scene is in the Olympe where it is a question of deciding between the Love, incarnation of the Amour respectful and Cupid, incarnation of the Love insolate. This last makes fun much of his/her comrade: from your time, he says him, the lovers could only languish and that to tell their sorrows with the echoes of surrounding… It does not go from there from now on more in the same way and one goes right to the cause of the evil. Where the love of antan made only the stupid ones and imbeciles, Cupid produces only people of courage, whose glances are desires and who attack instead of sighing. Mercure objects to him that with them, there is no more peace in the marriage because they could not leave the husbands in rest. The other gods also address reproaches to Cupid, but this one nothing but does laugh at it. Apollon is also criticized in connection with the praises given to the large characters in the Towards, and especially the epistles dédicatoires. The Truth says that one is always badly rented by him when one deserves to be it: that it opens hundred or thousand books, all are dedicated to wonders of virtue and merit. The Virtue orders in soft Amours to do each one to him a declaration. That of the Love leaves it cold while that of Cupid tenderizes it. As she flees of fear of succumbing, Minerve is charged to decide. Instead of deciding for the stiff Love, or the Love libertine, she orders to them, in the place, to meet and to moderate one by the other. She orders in Cupid to make the Love sharper, more impassioned and with the Love to return this one to tend more and more reasonable.

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