Les portraits and L'Amant las de l'être : manuscript plays, [second half of the 18th century].

Two apparently unpublished one-act comedies by Devaux, written on paper in a cursive script by various scribes, with corrections that may be autograph. The first play, Les Portraits, exists in two different versions (p. 1-43 and 45-106), the second one being somewhat enlarged and with numerous corrections. The second play, L'Amant las de l'être (p. 109-151) is centered around the same characters as the first. Devaux wrote Les Portraits in the 1730s, but it was not staged until 1752, having been re-titled Les Engagements indiscrets. The completed plays are followed by a fourth act (p. 155-174) and a second act (p. 175-193) of an unidentified drama set in Egypt. Additionally, a four-page "Romance d'Alexis sur l'erreur d'un bon père" in 24 8-line stanzas has been loosely laid in at the end.