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Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) The most important French dramatist of the eighteenth century, though he wrote but two really successful plays, Le barbier de Séville (1775) and Le mariage de Figaro (1784).
C.A. Saint-Beuve, Portraits of the Eighteenth Century, Historic and Literary, Vol. II (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909) 384.
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