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Beaumarchais was born Pierre-Augustin Caron in the Rue Saint-Denis, Paris on 24 January 1732, the only boy among the six surviving children of André-Charles Caron, a watchmaker. In 1755, he married Madeleine-Catherine Aubertin, who helped him secure a royal office. Shortly after his marriage, he adopted the name "Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais", believing the name sounded grander and more aristocratic.
After his wife's death, he was appointed to teach King Louis XV's daughter the harp and became a musical advisor to the royal family. He debuted as a playwright with Eugénie in 1767, and rose to fame with the Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro.
As an agent of Louis XVI he conducted spying missions across Europe, and established a shell company to secretly traffick arms, munitions and supplies to American revolutionaries.
Despite being a wealthy man and possessed of noble titles, he supported the French Revolution and pledged his allegiance to the new government. He was briefly and falsely declared émigré, and spent two years exiled in Germany before returning to Paris and living the remainder of his life in relative peace.