[Born in Paris, 1692. Died there, 1754. Aged 62.] He is regarded as the inventor of sentimental comedy in France (_Comédie larmoyante_.) Hugh Kelly’s “False Delicacy” made the invention known in England, and Foote’s “Piety in Pattens” ridiculed it. Pierre de la Chaussée was a French Academician. His writings gained for him considerable fame during his life, and La Harpe ranks him amongst the authors who have conferred honour upon the French theatre. [In marble, by Caffieri. 1785.]