Figaro

Cultural  

1. A scheming Spanish barber who appears as a character in eighteenth-century French plays. The operas The Marriage of Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and The Barber of Seville, by Gioacchino Rossini, are about Figaro.

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I recently became part of a face-off between two opposite-running Coco bots on the small strip of sidewalk in front of Cafe Figaro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

He joined Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal in 2002 after three years at French dailies Le Figaro and les Echos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

"It’s been a fairly conservative season, without any incredible propositions," Matthieu Morge Zucconi, head of men’s fashion at France's Le Figaro newspaper, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

"The thieves, clearly very experienced and well-informed, exploited a security flaw that had not been identified during the last audit conducted in 2024," a museum spokesperson told French newspaper Le Figaro.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

A letter to Le Figaro had even specifically called for the investigation to focus on the workers who had put the Mona Lisa behind glass.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day