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Mahomet second
Mahomet second is an unfinished tragedy in one act and five scenes in prose, written by French playwright Pierre de Marivaux circa 1733 and first published in the journal "Mercure de France" in 1747.
Origin.
Marivaux used to attend the Marquise de Lambert's literary salon with Antoine Houdar de La Motte, another supporter of prose in tragedy. After a talk about versification, he decided to answer empirically by writing "Mahomet second", despite the failure a decade before of his Annibal. No-
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The town's own published account credits their founder Daniel T. Porter, who had Connecticut roots, as the one who named both the new village as Middletown (after the town in Connecticut) and the post office as Mahomet (after Mahomet Weyonomon a tribal chieftain from Connecticut). With the arrival of the railroad, the town embraced the name of its post office in 1871 because there already was a Middletown, Illinois.
However, alternative theories of the origin of the name "Mahomet" exist. One derives