Procopio Cutò
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Procopio Cutò, also known as Francesco Procopio Cutò, Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, or François Procope was an Italian chef, a subject of the Kingdom of Sicily. He founded in 1686 what has become t
Cutò founded Café Procope in Paris in 1686.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright and diplomat of the Age of Enlightenment. Best known for his three Figaro plays, at various times in his life he was also a watchmaker, in
Portrait by Jean-Marc Nattier, c. 1755
Louis XV by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, (1748)
The original title page of The Marriage of Figaro
Statue of Beaumarchais in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, by Louis Clausade (1895)