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La Colonie
La Colonie is a comedy by French playwright Pierre de Marivaux, published in 1750 in the journal "Mercure de France".
When it was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne on June 18, 1729, "La Nouvelle Colonie" did not gather success and was only staged once. Marivaux cancelled all the shows and did not publish, but he rewrote the play and reduced it to a single act composed of 18 scenes. This new version was performed and published under the title "La Colonie"
for the Spanish crown by the settlement of Van Dieman's Land. After receiving no response from the Spanish government, Peyroux proposed it to the French government, as "Mémoire sur les avantages qui résulteraient d'une colonie puissante à la terre de Diémen". He noted that in Frederick Henry Bay, "we find an excellent harbour, where one can anchor in 14 fathoms sheltered from the wind. The country offers an enchanting appearance and the climate is pure and healthy. We read in Cook's voyages that the soil is fertile