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

by Harlow Giles Unger

Book Overview

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an eighteenth-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project, and singlehandedly carried it out. By war's end, he had supplied Washington's army with most of its weapons and powder, though he was never paid or acknowledged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584659254
• ISBN13: 9781584659259
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"