Eighteenth Century

Beaumarchais, and etc.

Wrap up of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

-Shift of alliances

-Invasion of Saxony

-Prussian - Austrian dualism

Pierre Augustin Caron = Beaumarchais (1732-1799)

-son of a watchmaker

-watch-ring for Madame de Pompadour

-married Madeleine Francquet in 1756 (social mobility)

-music teacher to daughters of Louis XV

-political and financial intrigues, adventures and lawsuits

-pamphleteer

-married Genevieve-Madeleine Wettebled Leveque in 1768

-"secret" missions for Louis XV and XVI

-spats with the Chevalier d'Eon

-supported American independence (Roderigue Hortalez and Co.)

-preserved Voltaire's legacy

-married Marie-Therese de Willer-Mawlaz in 1786

-supported French Revolution but was not trusted

-wrote numerous plays

# posted by Anne Good @ 8:05 PM