Improbable Patriot : The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution (Hardcover)

from billiecat

Before reading this book, all I knew of Beaumarchais was that he wrote the Figaro plays, which were later made into operas. Other than that, aside from the impression that he was a bit of a rogue, I knew nothing. After reading this book, while I know a lot more, I feel the "Beaumarchais" in this ...

from Dmoorela

Interesting account of the French role in bankrolling the American Revolution. The chief contributor being the playwrite Monsieur de Beaumarchais. I had only a vague knowledge of Beaumarchais prior to reading this account. I knew of him as a playwrite who influenced French public attitudes during...

from davidveal

Hurray! A new hero of the American Revolution arrives in the nick of time to save us from the shallow Francophobia that infected America's hoi polloi when France, our oldest and most faithful ally, declined to join the United States in our costly and probably counter-productive adventure in Iraq....

from nbmars

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a brilliant inventor, musician, composer, businessman, diplomat, and the man most responsible for supplying critical aid to the floundering Americans during their Revolution, thus ensuring its success. Beaumarchais was a prodigy who invented the wristwatc...

from RoseCityReader

Improbable Patriot reads like an adventure novel. The story is that of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, an eighteenth-century French playwright, inventor, and bon vivant who convinced King Louis XVI to bankroll his plan to sell arms to America for its revolution with Britain. It is a terrif...