Improbable patriot [electronic resource] : the secret history of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French playwright who saved the American Revolution / Harlow Giles Unger.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 236 p. :) ill., mapContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781611682168
- 1611682169
- 842/.5 B 22
- PQ1956 .U54 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We must help the Americans -- Gold by god! : the fuel of life! -- Last night poor, wealthy today! -- So you mistreat some poor devil -- till he trembles in disgrace! -- I'm the busiest, cleverest fellow I know -- Plotting and pocketing -- I wish to serve your country as if it were my own -- Figaro here, figaro there -- Bright people are so stupid -- What did you do to earn so many rewards? -- Tout finit par des chansons = Everything ends in song -- All of which proves that a son of a clod can be worth his weight in gold.
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