Figaro: The Life of Beaumarchais - Free Audiobook
Author(s): John Rivers,
1 / 34Preface
- 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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