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    Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (French: [pjɛʁ bomaʁʃɛ]; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he...
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  • Beaumarchais (French: Beaumarchais l'insolent) is a 1996 French biopic film directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc and...
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    The Barber of Seville (play) (category Plays by Pierre Beaumarchais)
    Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially...
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  • Jean-Pierre Delarüe Caron de Beaumarchais (8 December 1944, Rome) is a French bibliographer, a descendant in the female line of Pierre Beaumarchais (whose...
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    The Marriage of Figaro (play) (category Plays by Pierre Beaumarchais)
    Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written in 1778 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This play is the second in the Figaro trilogy, preceded by The Barber...
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  • Bancroft joined the American mission in Paris in December 1776. In 1777 Pierre Beaumarchais wrote to Vergennes that Wentworth spoke French "like you and better...
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    earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy. The first Beaumarchais play was originally conceived as an opéra comique, but...
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    The Guilty Mother (category Plays by Pierre Beaumarchais)
    subtitled The Other Tartuffe, is the third play of the Figaro trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of...
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    The Marriage of Figaro (category Operas based on works by Pierre Beaumarchais)
    1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The...
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    of France." His chance to strike at Britain came through Pierre Beaumarchais. Beaumarchais, working as a secret agent, had traveled to London in pursuit...
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  • Kingdom 1963 Paul Le Roux  Rhodesia 1972 Pierre Beaumarchais  France 1732 1799 Pierre Dadak  France 1976 Pierre Laureys  France 1919 2004 Samuel Cummings...
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  • band manager, Nigel, Apu took the stage name "Apu de Beaumarchais" (a reference to Pierre Beaumarchais, author of The Barber of Seville). Apu is a dietary...
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    and William Shakespeare. He translated Le Mariage de Figaro of Pierre Beaumarchais, Othello of William Shakespeare, and Gulistan of Saadi Shirazi into...
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    Louis XVI and France's foreign minister, the comte de Vergennes, Pierre Beaumarchais was authorized to sell gunpowder and ammunition to the Americans...
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    (tragédie lyrique) composed by Antonio Salieri to a French libretto by Pierre Beaumarchais. It was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Théâtre de la Porte...
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  • Montalembert as Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes Assaad Bouab as Pierre Beaumarchais Théodore Pellerin as Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Tom...
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    Jean-Pierre Castaldi (born 1 October 1944) is a French actor. He is the father of French TV presenter and radio host Benjamin Castaldi. 2000–2002 : Host...
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  • libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784). It is sung by...
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  • Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He directed scenes from several pieces, including those of Pierre Beaumarchais, Yasmina Reza, and Marcel Pagnol. He has also had a career in television...
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    the American Revolution. In the same year Louis was persuaded by Pierre Beaumarchais to send supplies, ammunition, and guns to the rebels secretly. Early...
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    disappear. Beaumarchais is instead in favor of language found in nature, and used in sentimental comedy. To combat the opposition, Beaumarchais lays out...
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  • play by Beaumarchais La mère coupable, a 1966 opera by Milhaud based on the play The Marriage of Figaro (play), a 1784 play by Beaumarchais The Marriage...
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    Servant of Two Masters (1743) by Carlo Goldoni, the Figaro plays of Pierre Beaumarchais, and especially The Love for Three Oranges, Turandot and other fiabe...
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    art to express their criticism, including literature and music. Pierre Beaumarchais, for example, prior to the French Revolution, used his play The Marriage...
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  • The Women of Troy, Helen) by Euripides The Barber of Seville by Pierre Beaumarchais Barlaam and Josaphat: A Christian Tale of the Buddha by Gui de Cambrai...
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  • as Peter Baring Lee Ross as Danny Argyropoulos Yves Beneyton as Pierre Beaumarchais Betsy Brantley as Brenda Granger Caroline Langrishe as Ash Lewis...
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    Giuseppe Gazzaniga Le nozze di Figaro (1785/86, from the play by Pierre Beaumarchais) – composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Una cosa rara (1786, from the...
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  • libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784). The Italian title...
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    reinstitute droit du seigneur. It was based on a play of the same title by Pierre Beaumarchais. The Acta Sanctorum ("Acts of the Saints"), published from 1643 onwards...
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    shipment of arms and munitions to the colonies with the assistance of Pierre Beaumarchais, the playwright and outspoken supporter of American independence...
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