Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2
CHAPTER XXVI
Beaumarchais After his Return from Exile—Takes Up All his Business Activities—Marriage of Eugénie—Her Portrait Drawn by Julie—Beaumarchais’s Varied Interests—Correspondence with Bonaparte—Pleads for Lafayette Imprisoned—Death of Beaumarchais—Conclusion 273
Bibliography 291
Index 295
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
P. A. Caron de Beaumarchais Frontispiece
Charles de Beaumont 26
Charles Gravier—Comte de Vergennes 54
Silas Deane 78
William Carmichaël 104
Lafayette 126
General John Schuyler 140
General Baron von Steuben 152
Robert Morris 166
The Temple 182
Cæsar Augustus Rodney—Attorney General of the U. S. 200
John Jay 220
D’Estaing 232
The Bastille 240
House of Beaumarchais 252
Madame de Beaumarchais 270
BEAUMARCHAIS
_And the War of American Independence_