Front Page Titles (by Subject) Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

1732 - 1799

About the Author

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a watchmaker and a court musician, before he turned to writing plays. He is best known for having dared to publish Voltaire and two anti-aristocratic plays of his own - The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1781). During the American Revolution he acted on behalf of the French crown to supply guns and other weapons to the American revolutionaries.

In The Library:

• author: The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution (1775)
• author: The Marriage of Figaro (or the Follies of a Day) (1784)
• author: Mozart’s Opera Marriage of Figaro, containing the Italian text, with an English translation, and the Music of all of the Principal Airs (1786)