by Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070533572
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«Beaumarchais: Le voltigeur des Lumières» is the biographical essay by Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, published by Gallimard in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais portrays his ancestor Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais as a «voltigeur» of the Enlightenment: playwright, clockmaker, publisher of Voltaire, shipowner, secret agent and arms supplier for the Americans and the French Revolution. The essay traces his social rise and his metamorphoses.
It belongs to the Découvertes Gallimard collection, Littérature series. Published in 1996; includes bibliographic references (p. 121) and index.
It is of interest to students of French literature and to readers drawn to the Enlightenment and to the historical figure of Beaumarchais.
Jean-Pierre Delarüe Caron de Beaumarchais is a French bibliographer, a descendant in the female line of Pierre Beaumarchais.
