Some Works
All of the following, partly as listed at www.worldcatlibraries.org, were published at Paris except as noted. The chevallier de Mailly's works were quickly reprinted at Amsterdam, for the most part.
- Les disgraces des amans, nouvelle historique (1690)
- La Rome galante, ou Histoire secrète sous les règnes de Jules César et d'Auguste (1695/96) The author's name is given as L.C.D.M..
- Histoire de la republique de Genes: depuis l'an 464 de la fondation de Rome jusqu'a present (1696). It was praised in the Journal des Savants ix (1697) and reprinted in 1742, according to Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, who panned the production in his preface to his maiden production, Histoire des révolutions de Gênes: depuis son établissement jusqu' à la conclusion de la Paix de 1748, 1753.
- Les Illustres Fées, contes galans dédiés aux dames (anonymously, 1698). These eleven fairy tales were often attributed to Madame d'Aulnoy. (on-line text)
- Avantures et lettres galantes, avec La Promenade des Tuileries (1697) and its sequel L’Heureux Naufrage
- Le Triomphe de la Bazoche ; et Les amours de Maistre Sebastien Grapignan 1698. The author's name is given as L.C.D.M..
- Les Amours du comte de Clare (anonymously, Amsterdam 1700)
- Les Eaux d'Aix : nouvelle divertissante du mois de may 1701 (1701)
- Nouveau cabinet des fées
- Anecdote, ou histoire secrète des Vestales (1701)
- Entretien des caffées de Paris (1702)
- Diverses avantures de France et d'Espagne, nouvelles galantes & historiques ("1707", actually 1706)
- Nouvelles toutes nouvelles (1709)
- Histoire du Prince Erastus, fils de l'empereur Diocletien. (1709)
- Le Voyage et les avanturesdes trois princes de Sarendip (1719), a reworking of Cristoforo Armeno, Peregrinaggio di tre giovanni figlioli del Rè di Serendippo... dalla Persiana nell'Italiana trappartato (1557). An English translation appeared in London in 1722. Horace Walpole's retelling introduced serendipity to the English language.
- L'éloge de la chasse, avec plusieurs avantures surprenantes & agréables qui y sont arrivées (1723)
- Lettre au roy sur sa majorité (1723)
- Principales merveilles de la nature : où l'on traite de la substance de la terre, de la mer, des fleuves, lacs, rivieres, montagnes, rochers, &c. avec un précis des choses les plus surprenantes qui s'y voyent, comme animaux, poissons, arbres, plantes, fruits, diamants, &c. ; ouvrage rempli d'histoires, avantures & evénements extraordinaires arrivez dans l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique & l'Amérique. Tiré des meilleurs auteurs anciens & modernes, enrichi de figures en taille-douce. (Rouen, 1723). This was his last work to appear.
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