[Born in Paris, 1692. Died there, 1754. Aged 62.]
He is regarded as the inventor of sentimental comedy in France
(_Comédie larmoyante_.) Hugh Kelly’s “False Delicacy” made the
invention known in England, and Foote’s “Piety in Pattens” ridiculed it.
Pierre de la Chaussée was a French Academician. His writings gained for
him considerable fame during his life, and La Harpe ranks him amongst
the authors who have conferred honour upon the French theatre.
[In marble, by Caffieri. 1785.]