DE LOMéNIE, Louis. Translated by Frederic Lyster.
Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of Court Life and French Society Under Louis XVI, The Reign of Terror and the Directory of Louis De Lomenie.
New York: The Drallop Publishing Company , 1896.
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Finely bound example of Louis De Loménie's Beaumarchais and His Times
Finely bound example of Louis De Loménie's best-known work, his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Beaumarchais. In near fine condition. Elegant library stamp.
French polymath Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was at various times in his life a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American). An early French supporter of American independence, Beaumarchais lobbied the French government on behalf of the American rebels during the American War of Independence and oversaw covert aid from the French and Spanish governments to supply arms and financial assistance to the rebels in the years before France's formal entry into the war in 1778.
Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of Court Life and French Society Under Louis XVI, The Reign of Terror and the Directory of Louis De Lomenie.
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