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Pierre Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée (1692–1754)
La Chaussée, Pierre Claude Nivelle de (lä shō-sā’). A French dramatist, founder of the so-called “mixed” or “weeping” comedy; born in Paris, 1692; died there, March 14, 1754. His comedy ‘The False Antipathy’ (1734) was the first French pathetic comedy. Of eighteen dramas written by him, among the best are: ‘Fashionable Prejudice’ (1735), directed against the idea, then widespread, that a man of rank can have no love for his wife; ‘School of Friendship’ (1737); ‘Mélanide’ (1741); ‘Love for Love’ (1742); ‘Pamela’ (1743); ‘School of Mothers’ (1745); ‘The Governess’ (1747).