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Beaumarchais.(Books)(Book review)
The Christian Science Monitor
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June 4, 2009|
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Byline: M.M. Bennetts
Ask the question, a*Who was Beaumarchais?a* and it's likely that opera buffs would answer: a*He's the author of the play upon which Mozart based his opera, The Marriage of Figaro.a* And someone might add that he also wrote The Barber of Seville - the basis for Rossini's opera. But Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the subject of Beaumarchais, a new biography by French scholar, Maurice Lever, was much more than that.
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