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	Pierre Beaumarchais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beaumarchais was born Pierre-Augustin Caron to a watch-maker in Paris, the only boy of six children.
		Beaumarchais died of apoplexy, and was buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
		Beaumarchais lived with his lover, Marie-Thérèse de Willer-Mawlaz, for twelve years, and had a daughter, Eugénie, before she became Beaumarchais's third wife, in 1786.
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	Pierre Beaumarchais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beaumarchais travelled to Madrid in 1764 and spent ten months there, supposedly to help his sister, Lisette, who had been abandoned by her fiancé, Clavijo.
		Goezman (who sympathised with Beaumarchais) of their civil rights, while Magistrate Goezman was removed from his post, and the judgement for the La Blanche case once again overturned to Beaumarchais's favour.
		In both cases, Beaumarchais was accused (mainly by his enemies) of poisoning them in order to lay claim to their family inheritance.
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	PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS - LoveToKnow Article on PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE 1799), French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of January 1732.
		Beaumarchais, who had learned that.there was no secretary save Mme Goezman herself, insisted on restitution of the 15 louis, but the lady denied all knowledge of the affair.
		Beaumarchais had the imprudence to retaliate by personalities that were reported by his enemies to be dedicated against the king and queen.
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		BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE (1732-1799), French dramatist, was born in Paris on January 24, 1732.
		Beaumarchais made his first essay as a writer for the stage with the sentimental drama Eugénie (1767), in which he drew largely on the Clavijo incident.
		Beaumarchais had overloaded the last scene with allusions to the facts of his own case and the whole action of the piece was laboured and heavy.
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		Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste Sylvestre De Villeneuve was a French admiral.
		Pierre Jean de Beranger was a French lyric poet, born in Paris in 1780.
		Pierre Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer.
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	Embassy of France in the US - Pierre de Beaumarchais
		Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais, a man of letters and an adventurer was born in Paris in 1732.
		The son of a clock-maker, Beaumarchais was introduced into society by the banker Paris-Duverney.
		Knighted by the King at age 29, Beaumarchais became famous for his plays The Barber of Seville, and later The Marriage of Figaro.
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	Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beaumarchais was a famous litigant, and the pamphlets he wrote about his cases were witty and effective.
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	Bambooweb: Beaumarchais
		Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (January 24, 1732 - May 18, 1799) was, among other accomplishments, a writer and librettist.
		Though Beaumarchais is perhaps best known as writer of the comedies on which Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro were based, he was also an accomplished musician, watch-maker, secret agent, architect, politician, inventor, arms dealer, and more.
		It is generally admitted that Beaumarchais was not republican, but his writings contributed to an acceleration of the events which led to the Revolution.
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	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Beaumarchais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pierre Caron was granted the dignitary title of "Purveyor to the King" and circulated freely among the nobles at Versailles, who kept him busy with orders for watches.
		Beaumarchais was rescued from loneliness by an acquaintance from Versailles, Charles Lenormant d'Étoile, the neglected husband of Madame de Pompadour.
		Thus, in 1763, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was appointed as the Lieutenant General of the Preserves in the Bailiwick and the Captainry of the Warren of the Louvre.
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	Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Pierre Marivaux wrote more than 30 comedies, mostly between 1720 and 1740, bearing for the most part upon the psychology of love.
		The French dramatist Beaumarchais was best known as the author of two outstanding comedies of intrigue, Le Barbier de Séville (1775; The Barber of Seville) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784; The Marriage of Figaro).
		Although Beaumarchais did not invent the character of the scheming valet, his Figaro, hero of both plays, became the highest expression of the type.
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	Madame de Pompadour
		Beaumarchais is imprisoned because of his dispute with the Duke of Chaulnes.
		Beaumarchais is blamed (he is socially dead) and Goezman is “put aside the court”.
		The beginning of the Kornman affair: Beaumarchais, protected by the prince of Nassau-Siegen, defends the lady who is persecuted by the banker Konman.
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	French Playwrights Index
		Pierre Beaumarchais - A biography of the French dramatist and pamphleteer.
		Pierre du Ryer - A brief biography of the French dramatist.
		Thomas Corneille - A biography of the French dramatist and younger brother of Pierre.
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	Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
		Initially, Pierre followed in his father's trade, and exhibited a talent not only with mechanical objects, but in the fields of music and writing.
		There is some speculation that Beaumarchais had eariler performed a secret mission in London for Louis XV and Mme Du Berry in 1774.
		On 15 Jan Beaumarchais was given a written apology from Congress and a ‘pledge' of payment, for as everyone knew, the US had no money to pay.
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	BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Originally a watchmaker, he rose to wealth and position among the nobility.
		Beaumarchais’s employment as a secret agent by the monarchy led to his involvement in the American Revolution as a supplier of arms.
		The expected payment was never forthcoming, and the claims of Beaumarchais against the Americans were settled only in 1835 through a grant by Congress to his heirs.
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	Beaumarchais Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was born in Paris in 1732, the son of a watchmaker...
		Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais (1732-1799) - A biography of the French dramatist Beaumarchais.
		PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS - LoveToKnow Article on PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS - PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE (1732- 1799), French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of January 1732.
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	Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais
		He held negotiations with Arthur Lee, agent of the colonists, and finally persuaded the prime minister, Maurepas, to sanction a loan of 1,000,000 livres and to secure the advance of an equal sum from the Spanish government.
		The United States were indebted to Beaumarchais at the end of the transactions in the sum of 4,000,000 francs, an obligation which the American government was unable to meet, and which was finally compromised in 1835, by the payment of 800,000 francs to his heirs.
		He engaged in a variety of financial speculations, such as establishing a national bank of discount, supplying Paris with water, publishing the collected works of Voltaire, etc., which were generally successful, His writings are remarkable for their literary qualities, and some of them for their influence on events.
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	MSN Encarta - Beaumarchais
		Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-99), French playwright, born in Paris.
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	P.-A. C. de Beaumarchais Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beaumarchais, a French watchmaker turned playwright, was engaged in the king's secret service, and on missions to England he grew interested in the complains of the American colonies against Great Britain.
		Beaumarchais undertook to supply the French National Convention with muskets from Holland and found the adventure ruinous.
		Charged with treason in 1792, he was arrested, released, and proscribed; he did not return to Paris until 1796.
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	Beaumarchais, "Le Barbier de Seville", "Memoires", "Le Mariage de Figaro" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The son of a watchmaker, he invented an escapement mechanism and the question of its patent led to the first of many legal actions.
		For his defense in these suits he wrote a series of brilliant polemics which made his reputation, though he was only partly successful at law.
		1792, Beaumarchais was charged with treason against the Republic.
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		Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French Literature, Biographies
		Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais[pyer OgUstaN´ karON´ du bOmArshA´] Pronunciation Key, 1732–99, French dramatist.
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		Born in Paris as the son of a watchmaker, he became a favorite at the Court of Louis XV.
		The two comedies are remarkable through their wit, clever dialogue and elaborated plots, the author satirizing the privileges and weakness of the nobility.
		Beaumarchais was later employed as a secret agent by the monarchy, supplying the colonies with arms during the American Revolution, but he was never paid by the revolutionaries for his services.
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	FileRoom.org - Beaumarchais, "Le Barbier de Seville", "Memoires", "Le Mariage de Figaro" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Description of Artwork: "Le Barbier de Seville," 1773 and "Le Mariage de Figaro," 1778: Comedie of intrigue in which the valet's resourcefulness and cunning were portrayed with definite class-conscious sympathy.
		Description of Incident: 1770-1780, France: During his service as a secret agent of Louis XV and Louis XVI, Beaumarchais traveled abroad to seize writings condemning Mme.
		Results of Incident: 1775, France: a revised version of "Le Barbier de Seville" was successful and allowed to be performed on the stage.
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	Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
		Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732–99, French dramatist.
		Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
		Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799) (The Hutchinson Encyclopedia)
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Figaro Trilogy: 'The Barber of Seville', 'The Marriage of Figaro', 'The Guilty Mother' (Oxford ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They chronicle the slide of the ancien regime into revolution and Figaro was seen as a threat to the establishment.
		The impertinent, bustling servant was appropriated by Mozart and Rossini for their own purposes, and Beaumarchais became eighteenth-century France's only truly international theatre star.
		They are also exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the direction of French theatre for a hundred years.
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	FileRoom.org - Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais, French playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He is best know for his plays, "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro." Both plays allude to peasant uprising, and corrupt government and church officals.
		Description of Incident: In 1773 Beaumarchais was invited to perform "The Barber of Seville" at the Comedie Francaise, however the invitation was retracted and Beaumarchais was imprisoned for satirizing the Duc de Chaulnes.
		In 1779 Beaumarchais left France for Germany with the intention of publishing Voltaire's writings.
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		Beaumarchais, Pierre: J Bew London 1776 1st Eng NF, wraps, rems of leather spine (boards missing) fiction
		Beaumarchais: Ginn & Co. Cover is bumped and well worn on spine and edges with small pieces missing on spine.
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		Almaviva is the name of both winery and wine born of the joint venture between Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Viña Concha y Toro.
		It is also that of Pierre de Beaumarchais' character, the "Count of Almaviva" in his Marriage of Figaro, a work Wolfang Amadeus Mozart later turned into one of the most popular operas ever.
		The classical epithet, laid out in Pierre de Beaumarchais' fair hand, shares the label with insignia of pre-hispanic roots symbolizing a union of European and American cultures that at every level has created successive bonds over centuries that have evolved a unique identity.
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	Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The earliest extremal principle to survive in modern physics was formulated by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in about 1660.
		As originally stated, the path taken by a ray of light between two fixed points in an arrangement of mirrors, lenses, and so forth, is that which takes the least time.
		He Christianized and befriended various Indian tribes of the Northwest, to whom he became known as their beloved “Black Robe.” He also spent much time raising money and...
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	Pierre L'Enfant Gravesite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mike's Notes: In 1777, the French dramatist Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais recruited a group of his fellow countrymen to assist the American colonies in their War for Independence.
		Among those who traveled to America and fought in the war was Major Pierre L'Enfant.
		After the war, L'Enfant, whose father was a court painter for King Louis XIV, became acquainted with George Washington and was invited by the president to design the layout for the new capital city, the District of Columbia.
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