Download Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution AudioBook Free
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an 18th-century French inventor, famous playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of Ruler Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious intend to send aid to the American rebels. Also, he persuaded the king to bankroll the job, and singlehandedly carried it out. By war's end, he had supplied Washington's military with almost all of its weapons and powder, though he was never paid or acknowledged by the United States. For some, he was a dashing hero - a towering intellect who saved the American Trend. To others, he was pure rogue - a double-dealing adventurer who halted at nothing to improve his popularity and fortune. Actually, he was both, and even more: an advisor to kings, an hands dealer, and author of some of the most long lasting works of the level, including The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville.
