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Pierre Beaumarchais
1732 – 1799
French

Dramatist. He was a master of satire and farce, and his plays The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro were adapted for opera by Rossini and Mozart respectively.

Contemporaries
1717–1783Jean d'Alembert
1754–1838Charles Talleyrand
1675–1755Louis Saint-Simon
1760–1825Claude Saint-Simon
1740–1814Marquis de Sade
1758–1794Maximilien Robespierre
1721–1764Jeanne Pompadour
1689–1755Charles Montesquieu
1743–1793Jean Marat
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1760–1797François-Noël Babeuf