This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... BEAUMARCHAIS And the War of American Independence CHAPTER I "Je passe encore sous silence la scene degoutante entre deux hommes ou vous vous etes egare jusqu'a me reprocher que je n'etais que le fits d'un horloger. Moi qui m'honore de mes parents...". Beaumarchais au Duc de Chaulnes, 1771 Early life- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... BEAUMARCHAIS And the War of American Independence CHAPTER I "Je passe encore sous silence la scene degoutante entre deux hommes ou vous vous etes egare jusqu'a me reprocher que je n'etais que le fits d'un horloger. Moi qui m'honore de mes parents...". Beaumarchais au Duc de Chaulnes, 1771 Early life--Trained by his Father to the Trade of Watchmaker--Invents an Escapement for Watches--First Lawsuit---Horloger du Roi--Enters the Court of Versailles as Controleur clerc (Toflice--First Marriage--Assumes the Name of Beaumarchais--Death of his Wife--Becomes Music Master to the Princesses of France--Attracts the Attention of Paris du Verney TT was on the twenty-fourth day of January, 1732, in an inconspicuous watchmaker's shop on the rue St. Denis in Paris, that the child first saw the light who was baptized Pierre-August and whose family name was Caron. He was the seventh of ten children, six of whom were girls, but as his brothers all died in infancy he was the only son of the household and consequently its idol. Formed by nature for fun and frolic, the little "Pierrot" as he was called had the merriest possible childhood. His mother gentle, loving, and indulgent shielded her favorite from his father, who at times was somewhat stern, while his elder sisters petted and spoiled him, and the younger ones entered heartily into his games and pastimes. Two of the girls were younger than he, the one nearest his age, Julie, was his favorite, and was also the one who most resembled him by her talents and her native wit and gaiety. It is from her pen that we have most of the details of their early life. In some of her youthful rhymes Julie tells us how "Pierrot" commanded a band of little good-for-nothings, roving about either to plunder the...
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