Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de

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Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732–99) French dramatist. Beaumarchais' principal plays were the related court satires, The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro, which were transformed into operas by Rossini and Mozart respectively. He was also employed as a secret agent by the French to supply arms to the Americans during the American Revolution.

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