Beaumarchais

• “It found its embodiment in Beaumarchais, whom the people of the United States scarcely ever mention, but who did more to help that country achieve independence than any other non-military man.”

  British Diplomacy

• “Welsh Cake, re weekend in Paris…when my husband and I went to Paris last year we stayed somewhere called the Hotel Beaumarchais which is near the Marais and Bastille.”

  navigo

• “Beaumarchais's play, about the lustful count's determination to bed his servant on the night before her wedding day, has tended to be over-shadowed by Mozart's opera, but in its day it was considered a scandalous shocker, described by Napoleon as "the revolution in action.”

  The Guardian: This week's new theatre

• “Ranjit Bolt's version of Beaumarchais's comedy, transposed to the Mughal Empire of the 19th century, was first staged by Tara Arts in 2006.”

  The Guardian: This week's new theatre

• “You can decide which 1950s French arthouse classic to purchase between mouthfuls of mouelleux fondant chocolate cake. • 111 boulevard Beaumarchais, 3rd, +33 1 4277 0033, merci-merci.com.”

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• “You'd hardly call them revolutionary but they do resemble the subversive below-stairs crew of Beaumarchais' 1784 The Marriage of Figaro.”

  The Guardian: She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review

• “From Lebanese to French, Chef David Diaz of Beaumarchais in the Meatpacking district is cooking up one of my favorite duck dishes right now, utilizing cherries, chestnuts, and radicchio.”

  The Huffington Post: Karine Bakhoum: Duck, Duck, NO Goose

• “He did something radical when he wrote The Marriage of Figaro in 1786, turning Beaumarchais's incendiary piece of pre-revolutionary upstairs-downstairs theatre into what's possibly the world's best-loved opera.”

  The Guardian: Opera versus musicals: which do you prefer?

• “Scenes of "pure acting"—like that of d'Éon (Ms. Guillem) negotiating in French with the playwright-politician Beaumarchais (Mr. Lepage) over the terms of his return to France—can be fairly tedious, as can paragraphs of amplified exposition from offstage.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Life in Multiple Roles: Lepage's Enigmatic Dance

• “And they drew on an unprecedented pool of capital—the funds advanced by Congress combined with the resources of the European traders who, like Beaumarchais, assembled shipments on their own credit against future remittances from America.”

  Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

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