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Pierre de Beaumarchais

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Pierre de Beaumarchais


Born
in Paris, France
January 24, 1732

Died
May 18, 1799

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Le Barbier de Séville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784), the comic plays, best-known works of French writer Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, inspired Gioacchino Antonio Rossini and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to operas.

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, a musician, diplomat, horticulturalist, satirist, and American revolutionary, made watches, invented, inventor, fled, spied, published, dealt arms, and financed.

Born a son to a provincial watchmaker , Beaumarchais rose in society as an influential inventor and music teacher in the court of Louis XV. He made a number of important business and social contacts in various roles as a diplomat and spy,and earned a considerable fortune before a series of costly court battles jeo
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Le Mariage de Figaro

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L'Autre Tartuffe ou La Mère...

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Le Mariage de Figaro / La M...

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Le Mariage de Figaro - Tome I

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Le Mariage de Figaro - Tome II

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Quotes by Pierre de Beaumarchais  (?)
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“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

(Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.)”
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville

“I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.”
Beaumarchais

“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.”
Beaumarchais Pierre Augustin Caron De

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