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Pierre Beaumarchais noted in the preface to his 1778 play, The Marriage of Figaro ( which satirized the aristocracy ) that it was the late prince de Conti who requested the play be written, and Louis François Joseph's antics may have been the model for the misadventures of " Count Almaviva ".
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The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.
Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).
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* January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer ( d. 1799 )
Rossini's opera recounts the first of the plays from the Figaro trilogy, by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, while Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.
Louis XVI was convinced by Pierre Beaumarchais to secretly send supplies, ammunition and guns from 1776, sign a formal Treaty of Alliance in early 1778, and go to war with Britain.
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After American diplomats appealed to the French revolutionary and arms dealer Pierre Beaumarchais, the French government loaned Beaumarchais one million livres on June 10, 1776 to establish a shell corporation under the alias Roderigue Hortalez & Co.
* Thomas Holcroft-The Follies of the Day ( translation of Pierre Beaumarchais ' )
It resulted in censorship of novels by Pierre Beaumarchais, one of whose plays was used for the operatic libretto of The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
L ' Enfant was recruited by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais to join in the American Revolutionary War in the American colonies.
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His plays are of the 18th century style, comedies of intrigue, but they rank with those of Collin d ' Harleville among the best of the period next to those of Pierre Beaumarchais.
The Pinto ( 1800 ) was the result of a wager that no further dramatic innovations were possible after the comedies of Pierre Beaumarchais.
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The nearest potential images included one claimed to be by noted Revolutionary War era engraver Pierre Eugene du Simitiere that turned out to be a forgery, and a reference to a portrait possibly by Ralph Earl that has not been found ( as of Stewart Holbrook's writing in 1940 ).
The corrosion resistance of iron-chromium alloys was first recognized in 1821 by French metallurgist Pierre Berthier, who noted their resistance against attack by some acids and suggested their use in cutlery.
Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, ( July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004 ) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist.
( Robin was the daughter of Antoine Robin de Livet, a French aristocrat who lived in Lyon, and the widow of Pierre Poivre, the noted French administrator.
Early twentieth-century historians noted that Jean Pierre Sioussat, a Frenchman, had directed the servants in the crisis.
From his hardy and, in a civilized sense, nomadic father, and from his Indian mother, Pierre inherited those characteristics that made him the most noted scout and voyageur in midAmerica.
* Pierre Schaeffer ( 1910 – 1995 ), noted as the inventor of musique concrète
Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot ( 25 October 1827 – 18 March 1907 ) was a French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle of thermochemistry.
After his pivotal role in establishing the Hudson's Bay Company, Pierre Esprit Radisson, noted French explorer, was chief director of trade at Port Nelson during one of his sustained periods of service to England.
His son Pierre was a noted pacifist.
The Marais Breton of Vendée is noted particularly for its tradition of veuze playing-which has been revived by the bagpipe-maker and player Thierry Bertrand-and for traditional singers such as Pierre Burgaud.
Pierre Berton noted that she was never entirely clear on how she learned of the impending attack.
Pollini is especially noted for his performances of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Webern and for championing modern composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacomo Manzoni, Salvatore Sciarrino and Bruno Maderna.
Other noted New Right group in Germany is Thule Seminar of Dr. Pierre Krebs.
Early essays, such as Le Testament de Dieu or L ' Idéologie française faced strong rebuttals, from noted intellectuals such as historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet and philosophers Cornelius Castoriadis, Raymond Aron and Gilles Deleuze, who called Lévy's methods " vile ".
Most noted amongst these was the Associate Minister of National Defence, Pierre Sévigny, who had seen her since 1958 and had even signed Munsinger's application for Canadian citizenship.
Those who followed his career, as a publisher and later as a politician, have noted that he also opposed the existing federal status quo, which he considered as too centralized, despite statements to the contrary by the then-Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
He went on to serve as a noted member of the cabinets of four Prime Ministers: William Lyon Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.
Tintinologists such as Thompson, Michael Farr and Pierre Assouline have noted the strong influence that the character of Totor would have on Tintin, with Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier stating that " Graphically, Totor was virtually identical to Tintin in every respect, except for his scout uniform.
The band themselves are noted fans of Passe-Partout composer Pierre F. Brault and have performed shows in his honour.
Trotskyist historian Pierre Broué noted that Trotsky had misinformed the Commission, claiming to have had no contacts with oppositionists inside the USSR to form a bloc ( one of the charges of the Moscow Trials ) despite being reminded during the Commission by his secretary, Jean van Heijenoort, of the opposite being the case.
In Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau ’ s 1971 Defence White Paper, this dynamic was noted:
Pierre Esprit Radisson, the fur trader, made this risky passage in 1658 and noted that his Native American companions offered some tobacco to the local spirit of the cliffs.
It should however be noted that Duméril maintained the Amphibians among the reptiles in spite of the work of Alexandre Brongniart or Pierre André Latreille or the anatomical discoveries of Karl Ernst von Baer ( 1792 – 1876 ) or of Johannes Peter Müller ( 1801 – 1858 ).
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