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| Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Beau·mar·chais |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b -mär-sh  |
| DATES: | 1732–1799 |
| French writer whose best-known works are the comic plays Le Barbier de Séville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784), which inspired operas by Rossini and Mozart.
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