 His most important works are "Le Triomphe de l'amour", "Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard" and "Les Fausses Confidences".He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, "La Vie de Marianne" and "Le Paysan parvenu".His father was a Norman financier whose name from birth was Carlet, but who assumed the surname of Chamblain, and then that of Marivaux.