The man who created Figaro.(COMMENTARY)(BOOK REVIEW)(Column)

The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | August 6, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Priscilla S. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Couldn't get away to Paris this summer? Not to worry. Spend some time with this biography of that consummate Frenchman, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, by the late French scholar Maurice Lever (it's been trimmed to one volume from its original three) and you will feel as though you've been in Paris. It doesn't matter much where you start: Our hero will have just fallen hard for a new mistress, traveled to England or Germany or Holland just ahead of the authorities, been thrown into any of several ...

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