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Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais

French playwright, diplomat and polymath (1732–1799)

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  • Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Works from the collections

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    The follies of a day; or, The marriage of figaro . A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden. From the French of M. De Beaumarchais. By Thomas Holcroft. Author of duplicity, a comedy, the noble peasant, an opera, &c.

    Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais | Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
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    Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

    Bruyères, Hippolyte. | Date: [1847] | Reference: 27616i
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    [Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais correspondence].

    Pierre Beaumarchais | Date: 2008-
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    The follies of a day; or, the marriage of Figaro. A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais. By Thomas Holcroft. ..

    Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais | Date: 1785
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    Courier de L'europe

    | Date: 1776-1791

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