Beaumarchais and His Times
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Excerpt from Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century From Unpublished Documents A Garret in the Rue du Pas-de-la-Mule. - State of the Papers left by Beaumarchais. - Gudin, the Punctual Man. - Beaumarchais´ first work of Art. - Portrait of a Lady. - Beaumarchais´ previous Biographers. Accompanied by a grandson of Beaumarchais, I one day entered a house in the Rue du Pas-de-la-Mule. We went up stairs to a garret into which no one had penetrated for several years, and on opening the door - which was not done without difficulty - raised a cloud of dust which almost suffocated us. I ran to the window for air; but, like the door, the window had so completely lost the habit of opening, that it resisted all my efforts: the wood, swollen and rotten from dampness, threatened to fall to pieces beneath my hand, when I took the wise resolution of breaking two of the panes, and we were at length able to breathe and cast our eyes freely around us. The little room was covered with boxes and cases filled with papers. Before me, in this uninhabited and silent cell - beneath this thick layer of dust, I had all that remained of one of the most lively wits - one of the most noisy, agitated, and varied existences which belonged to the last century. I had before me all the papers left fifty-four years ago by the author of the "Marriage of Figaro." When the superb mansion built by Beaumarchais, on the boulevard which bears his name, was sold and pulled down, his papers were removed to a neighboring house, and shut up in the room where I found them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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