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illustrations Maps North America before the French and Indian War 13 The Saratoga Campaign 136 Illustrations George Washington 4 Comte de Vergennes 6 Louis XV 10 Madame de Pompadour 11 Duc de Choiseul 16 Chateau de Versailles 25 A young Beaumarchais 27 Pâris-Duverney 37 École Militaire 38 Boston Massacre 50 Figaro 52 Music by Beaumarchais 52 Antoine Gabriel de Sartine d’Alby 58 Boston Tea Party 66 Marie-Thérèse Amélie de Willermaulaz 69 Madame du Barry 70 Queen Marie Antoinette 75 Le Théâtre Français 81 La Chevalière d’Eon 86 xii List of Illustrations Arthur Lee 96 Louis XVI 100 Silas Deane 119 Benjamin Franklin 127 The port at Rochefort 148 Words and music to “Malbrough” 150 John Jay 152 Bust of Voltaire 154 Bibliothèque du Roi 158 Beaumarchais 161 The comte serenades the comtesse 162 Figaro and Dr. Bartolo 164 The Bastille prison 174 Beaumarchais’s garden 176 Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789 180 Maximilien Robespierre 189 Mob overruns National Assembly 192 Execution of Louis XVI 197 House of Beaumarchais 203 ...

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