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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.