Open AccessBeaumarchais et le théâtre politique de Louis XVI : un nouveau « Secret du roi »
Author(s) -
Aurore Chéry
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
acta universitatis wratislaviensis. romanica wratislaviensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0557-2665
DOI - 10.19195/0557-2665.67.6
Subject(s) - pseudonym , art , humanities , opera , order (exchange) , art history , political science , law , finance , economics
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.