Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier and revolutionary.
Portrait by Jean-Marc Nattier
Louis XV, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, (1748)
The original title page of The Marriage of Figaro
Statue of Beaumarchais by Louis Clausade [fr] (1895), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris
Joseph Pâris dit Duverney or Joseph Pâris Du Verney was a French financier.
Bust of Pâris-Duverney in musée de Brunoy