Front Page Authors (by Period) Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

1732 - 1799

About the Author

Beaumarchais 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.

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)