La Méprise is a comedy in one act and in prose, written by French playwright Pierre de Marivaux and first performed on August 6, 1734, by the Comédie-Italienne at the théâtre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne.[1]
Two sisters, both blonde and charming, dress the same. The play is set in a park, where the young ladies are having a walk, hiding their face behind a mask. Ergaste, the lover, thinks he is talking to one sister when in fact it is the other. quid pro quos follow, until the two sisters disappear together.