Pierre Beaumarchais
French playwright, diplomat and polymath (1732-1799) · France · Writers · Died at 67
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Something wrong?He wrote the plays that became *The Barber of Seville* and *The Marriage of Figaro*, but spent more of his life as a watchmaker, spy, and arms dealer - funneling French guns to American rebels years before his government officially joined the war.
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Jean-Baptiste-François Génillion La maison de Beaumarchais et la Bastille
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, Edward J. Lowell, The Eve of the French Revolution (Houghton Mifflin Co, 1892) p. 327
Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian, 2nd ed. (1904) pp. 10, 13, 63, 101, 118, 143, 149, 235
W. Francis H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904) nos. 241, 278, 1014, 1032, 1180, 1321, 1505, 1538, 2532, 3000
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Born to a Parisian watchmaker on 24 January 1732, Pierre-Augustin Caron added "de Beaumarchais" as he climbed into the court of Louis XV, where he worked as an inventor and music teacher. The contacts he made there launched him into diplomacy, espionage, and business ventures that built a fortune - then nearly destroyed it in costly legal fights. When the American colonists rebelled, Beaumarchais became an early French advocate for their cause, lobbying his government and personally overseeing covert shipments of arms and money from France and Spain starting years before the 1778 alliance. He sank his own funds into the operation and spent decades trying to recover them. He lived to see the French Revolution begin in 1789, joined its early stages, and died in Paris on 18 May 1799.
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