Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 1
CHAPTER XII
Beaumarchais Goes to London in Quality of Secret Agent of Louis XV--Theveneau de Morande and His _Gazetier Cuirassé_-- The King Dies--Beaumarchais’s Second Mission Under Louis XVI--Playing _Figaro_ upon the Stage of Life--Visits the Empress of Austria--Is Imprisoned at Vienna--Addresses Memoir to the King--Confers with the Ministers upon the Recall of the Parliaments 248