Maybe, not as heady as Alfalfa’s performance, yet enlightening nonetheless!
Portrait de Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, by Jean-Marc Nattier
Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) had recruited men who fought in the American Revolutionary War and had also supplied arms to American revolutionaries.
One of his recruits was Pierre-Charles L’Enfant (9 August 1754 – 14 June 1825), an architect and engineer who designed the Washington National Mall. L’Enfant was dismissed and replaced by Andrew Ellicott (24 January 1754 – 28 August 1820) who criticized L’Enfant Plan and Pierre-Charles L’Enfant. In 1902, the McMillan Commission did away with Andrew Ellicott’s revisions. The Washington Mall was redesigned using L’Enfant Plan.
The Figaro Trilogy
The Barber of Seville (1773; 1775) The Marriage of Figaro (written in 1778, performed in 1784, published in 1785) The Guilty Mother (1791; 1966[opera]) The Marriage of Figaro as the centrepiece of Beaumarchais’ “Figaro trilogy” Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro (K 492) (1786)The Marriage of…
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