Figaro: The Life of Beaumarchais - Free Audiobook

Author(s): John Rivers

Language: English

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography Non-fiction

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34 Chapter(s)

1. Preface
2. Ch. I - In Which the Handsome Watchmaker Comes to Court
3. Ch. II - Mme. Francquet and the First Marriage of Beaumarchais
4. Ch. III - The Duel
5. Ch. IV - Some Early Adventures of Beaumarchais
6. Ch. V - An Adventure in Spain
7. Ch. VI - In Old Madrid
8. Ch. VII - The Story of the Beautiful Creole
9. Ch. VIII - Beaumarchais in His Early Plays
10. Ch. IX - Mme. Lévêque and the Second Marriage of Beaumarchais
11. Ch. X - Beaumarchais at Law
12. Ch. XI - Beaumarchais, the Mad Duke, and the Demi-Mondaine
13. Ch. XII - Beaumarchais in Prison
14. Ch. XIII - How "Louis XV Overthrew the Old Parlement and Fifteen Louis the New"
15. Ch. XIV - How "Louis XV Overthrew the Old Parlement and Fifteen Louis the New" Continued
16. Ch. XV - Concerning Mlle. Willermaula and the Third Marriage of Beaumarchais
17. Ch. XVI - On Secret Service
18. Ch. XVII - Beaumarchais and the Brigands of the Leichtenholtz
19. XVIII - A Mysterious Affair
20. XIX - "The Barber of Seville"
21. XX - Beaumarchais and the Chevalier d'Éon
22. XXI - The Rehabilitation of Beaumarchais
23. XXII - Beaumarchais in Conflict with the Players
24. XXIII - Beaumarchais Closes His Account
25. XXIV - In Which Beaumarchais Discovers America
26. XXV - Beaumarchais and Voltaire
27. XXVI - About "The Marriage of Figaro"
28. XXVII - "The Marriage of Figaro" - Part 1
29. XXVII - "The Marriage of Figaro" - Part 2
30. XXVIII - Beaumarchais and Mirabeau
31. XXIX - The Tribulations of a Knight-Errant
32. XXX - Tarare, and the Last Incarnation of Figaro
33. XXXI - Beaumarchais and the Deluge
34. XXXII - The Exile's Return, Last Years and Death

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Beaumarchais – Watchmaker, music teacher, politician, opportunist, publisher, secret agent for Louis XVI, yet fomenter of revolution in both France and America – and yet again imprisoned for being an enemy of the Revolution. . . Friend of Voltaire, libertarian, arms dealer, and dramatist whose famous Figaro trio of satirical plays reflects the dissolution of Medieval society and torturous emergence of a new democratic era. This biography by John Rivers was originally published in 1922. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)

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