Beaumarchais,
Pierre Augustin Caron de 1732-99; Fr. dramatist
See Beaumarchais in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(bō-mär-shāˈ), Pierre Augustin Caron de 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.