Beaumarchais
Americannoun
noun
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Beaumarchais, a Santa Ana police officer since 2011, was named the department’s detective of the year in 2019 and helped form its major enforcement team to suppress major crimes a year later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
“Tarare,” the only text that Beaumarchais wrote expressly for the opera house, is a wild mixture of tragedy, comedy, politics, and fantasy.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
The quote from Beaumarchais, “I laugh at everything in order not to cry,” projected on the scrim at the start, should be a mantra for today’s opera composers: Write more comedies!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
“This port was crucial for the American Revolution; Beaumarchais transported arms to the American war effort.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2017
That turned out to be a lot of information, because Bancroft served as Deane’s translator when he met with Beaumarchais.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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