Beaumarchais et le théâtre politique de Louis XVI : un nouveau « Secret du roi »

Aurore Chéry

doi:10.19195/0557-2665.67.6

Vol. 67 (2020)

Beaumarchais and the political theatre of Louis XVI — A new “King’s secret”

Aurore Chéry

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6062-4294

https://doi.org/10.19195/0557-2665.67.6

Pages: 77-89

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Abstract

Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais is well-known as a playwright and as a spy of Louis XVI. I argue here that both activities were closely associated and that the king ordered him to write literary works in order to defend his policies. I defend the hypothesis that the libretto of Thomas d’Hèles’ opera L’Amant jaloux is one of the commissioned works and that Beaumarchais hides under the pseudonym Thomas d’Hèles.

Keywords:

Beaumarchais, comic opera, cover name, libel, diplomacy, France, Austria, Spain, the Orléans Family, Marie-Antoinette

Published

23-07-2020

Citation rules

Chéry, A. (2020). Beaumarchais and the political theatre of Louis XVI — A new “King’s secret”. Romanica Wratislaviensia, 67, 77–89. https://doi.org/10.19195/0557-2665.67.6