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Les Sincères is a comedic play by French playwright Pierre Marivaux. Played in one act and in prose it was performed for the first time by the Comédiens italiens on January 13 1739 at the Hotel de Bourgogne in Paris.In this play Marivaux focuses on what happens to love when the main virtue in which the characters pride themselves is absolute sincerity. The ultimate result is a negative one. The whole play is based on the theme of sincerity or “the insincerity of being sincere”.
