French playwright, diplomat and polymath (1732–1799)

Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

[Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais correspondence].

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Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

[Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais correspondence].