"Indeclinable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Marivaux, like the authors of the preceding century, considered bien venants as an adjective, and hence declinable: but livre is feminine, and we should expect here the form bien venantes. The Academy has declared the expression indeclinable. Compare: "Je le voyais avec vingt-huit mille livres de rente bien venantes" (Mme. de ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux |
