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Beaumarchais — A watchmaker turned playwright
A watchmaker’s son who reached the court by a mechanical invention, he was harp master to the king’s daughters, financier, secret agent, arms dealer for the American insurgents, and incidentally the author of two comedies that laid the Ancien Régime bare. He also founded the first authors’ society. (Editorial synthesis)
Beaumarchais was born on 24 January 1732. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Beaumarchais was born in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Beaumarchais died on 18 May 1799. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Beaumarchais died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Beaumarchais: The Marriage of Figaro. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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