Improbable patriot [electronic resource] : the secret history of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French playwright who saved the American Revolution / Harlow Giles Unger.
By: Unger, Harlow G.
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Publisher: Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2011Description: xiv, 236 p.Subject(s): Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799 | Dramatists, French -- 18th century -- Biography | Diplomats -- France -- Biography | France -- History -- 18th century | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, FrenchGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 842/.5 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 841.914 PRE 1949 Paroles / | 842/.4 Molière | 842/.5 B Beaumarchais in Seville | 842/.5 B Improbable patriot | 842/.8099287 Staging politics and gender | 842/.912 Ghostly mysteries | 842/.914 Samuel Beckett |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We must help the Americans -- Gold by god! : the fuel of life! -- Last night poor, wealthy today! -- So you mistreat some poor devil-- till he trembles in disgrace! -- I'm the busiest, cleverest fellow I know -- Plotting and pocketing -- I wish to serve your country as if it were my own -- Figaro here, figaro there -- Bright people are so stupid -- What did you do to earn so many rewards? -- Tout finit par des chansons = Everything ends in song -- All of which proves that a son of a clod can be worth his weight in gold.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.